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Wacquant (2008) argues that the city has become the scene of novel patterns of segregating and stigmatizing ethnic or class groups on a territorial basis in developed countries in the post-industrial era. Drawing on the insights he offers, this study examined the existence of a similar mechanism of urban territorial stigmatization in Turkey, yet as a “developing coun-try.” It compared the cases of territorial stigmatization in two urban quarters of İstanbul: Nişantaşı Teneke and Rumelikavağı Kayadere.
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In this paper, we discuss its suitability to handle two local neighborhoods carrying the “Gypsy” stigma, which emerged in the last quarter of the 19th century Ottoman capital and which demonstrate certain distinctions from the cases studied by Wacquant (2008) as regards to the post-industrial era. Accordingly, we introduced a more nuanced sub-term to handle the aforementioned socio-spatial phenomenon: locally con-fined territorial stigmatization.
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This page is a summary of: Yerel Düzeyle Sınırlı Mekânsal Damgalama: “Çingene” Damgası Örneği, İDEALKENT, May 2019, IDEALKENT,
DOI: 10.31198/idealkent.431380.
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