Denigrating by numbers : (Record no. 491)
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| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20230627154704.0 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 474 |
| Personal name | Sisson, Alistair |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Denigrating by numbers : |
| Remainder of title | quantification, statistics and territorial stigma |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 17 April 2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 17 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A vibrant literature on territorial stigma has emerged over the past decade, detailing how particular neighbourhoods or districts have been discursively constructed as dangerous, depraved, deprived, dilapidated, and so on. Amidst this focus on the discursive, the role of numbers has been largely overlooked. In this article I argue that quantitative practices and statistical representations are central to the production of territory and to territorial stigmatization. I demonstrate how problem territories are produced through quantitative practices that reproduce forms of denigration and how statistical representations obfuscate the culpability of markets and the state and legitimize unjust interventions. I elaborate these arguments via three recent examples from public housing policy, governance and discourse in Sydney. Statistics have been deployed to portray tenants as undeserving of either the real estate they inhabit or any assistance whatsoever, and estates as pathological territories that cause disadvantage. Such representations have obscured how neoliberalization has caused such so-called problems, and have thus legitimated privatization, displacement and a punitive policy turn. I call for greater attention to the role of quantification and statistics among scholars of stigma––not only through deconstruction and critique, but also through strategic deployment in aid of struggles against stigma. |
| 524 ## - PREFERRED CITATION OF DESCRIBED MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Preferred citation of described materials note | How to cite: Sisson, A. (2021), DENIGRATING BY NUMBERS: Quantification, Statistics and Territorial Stigma. Int. J. Urban Reg. Res., 45: 407-422. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13009 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Statistics |
| Geographic subdivision | NSW |
| 9 (RLIN) | 507 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13009">https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13009</a> |
| Link text | View item on publishers website |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Article |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Use restrictions | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Date last seen | Uniform Resource Identifier | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| No | Dewey Decimal Classification | No | Yes | No | tunsw | tunsw | 29/06/2021 | 29/06/2021 | https://cfiles.tenantsunion.org.au/f/1530 | 29/06/2021 | Article | |
| No | Dewey Decimal Classification | No | No | tunsw | tunsw | 29/06/2021 | 29/06/2021 | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13009 | 29/06/2021 | Article |