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Housing Stigma

Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 17:30-19:20
Location: 715B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)

RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)

Language: English


This regular session focuses on social processes and experiences of marginalization based on housing. How do residents of stigmatized homes and communities endure and resist cultural stereotypes, segregation, and discrimination? How do they develop meaningful place-based identities and communities in marginal social spaces? What are the underlying politics of belonging and exclusion?
Session Organizers:
Margret KUSENBACH, University of South Florida, USA, mkusenba@usf.edu
Peer SMETS, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, p.g.s.m.smets@vu.nl