Bordering Places (original) (raw)

Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border (Oxford), 2021

Abstract

This chapter explains and illustrates four core arguments that contribute to literatures on borders, territorial stigma, and geographies of inequality. They are presented in an accessible way, with stories and illustrations from this region as well as other parts of the world, and they are relevant to any circumstances in which people have mental geographies that divide “good neighborhoods” from “bad” ones. First, the stigmatization and valorization of places are relational processes that contribute to spatialized inequalities. Second, place stigma plays an important role in producing and maintaining asymmetric borders. Third, asymmetric bordering occurs wherever people construct spatial lines demarcating distinction and inequality, at any scale. Fourth, asymmetric borders generate particular dynamics of crossings and contact zones that serve to protect and reinforce inequalities of status.

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