The Perforated Welfare Space: Negotiating Ghetto-Stigma in Media, Architecture and Everyday Life

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2021.2016253

M. Stender, Mette Mechlenborg

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Abstract

Abstract The Danish postwar social housing developments originally epitomized the dawning welfare state, promoting ideals of equity and community. Today, a number of these neighborhoods have come to occupy the reverse role and are publicly represented as “parallel societies,” “ghettos” or even “holes in the map of Denmark,” thus perforating the welfare state as a socially coherent space. Based on a media analysis and field studies in the so-called “hard ghettos,” this paper relates current media representations of disadvantaged Danish neighborhoods to architectural and residential ways of coping with territorial stigma. We argue that media representations of these housing developments contribute to rendering them spatially and socially detached from the surrounding society and that the architectural attempts to open up these housing developments may, in some cases, reinforce the stigma, further perforating the neighborhoods. Residents contest the stigma, yet those who can do so tend to detach themselves from the stigmatized neighborhoods.

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穿孔的福利空间：媒体、建筑和日常生活中的贫民窟污名

摘要丹麦战后的社会住房发展最初是福利国家的缩影，促进了公平和社区的理想。如今，这些社区中的一些已经扮演了相反的角色，并被公开表示为“平行社会”、“贫民区”甚至“丹麦地图上的洞”，从而将福利国家作为一个社会连贯的空间。基于媒体分析和对所谓“硬贫民窟”的实地研究，本文将当前媒体对丹麦弱势社区的描述与应对领土污名的建筑和居住方式联系起来。我们认为，媒体对这些住房开发项目的描述有助于使它们在空间和社会上与周围社会分离，在某些情况下，开放这些住房开发的建筑尝试可能会加剧污名，进一步渗透社区。居民们对污名化提出质疑，但那些能够这样做的人往往会将自己与污名化的社区分离。

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