Televised territorial stigma : how social housing tenants experience the fictional media representation of estates in Australia

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

ARTHURSON, K.

Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, Australie

DARCY, M.

School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Univ. of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australie

ROGERS, D.

School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Univ. of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australie

Description :
This paper explores the issue of territorial stigmatisation through tenant-driven research chronicling the experiences of social housing tenants as they examined and reflected upon the Australian television series Housos. It shows that they reflected on their own ‘real-life’ experiences and provide accounts of deliberate and self-conscious use of ‘negative’ social status to produce positive collective identities. Alternatively, nontenant participants repeated common prejudices about public housing, and reflected on their belief that the system was not effectively preventing welfare cheats and ‘bludgers’ from loafing at their (taxpayers’) expense.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 6, p. 1334-1350, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion

Langue :
Anglais