Imaginaries of Problematic Places
Everyday Life and Violence
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This Open Access book examines how youths in Malmö’s Rosengård district navigate life in the shadow of urban violence and enduring stigma. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the imaginaries and lived social experience around Sweden’s problematised urban areas and how stigmatising labels, such as “no-go zones”, are co-produced through media narratives, architectural design, and policy discourse. Rather than focusing on victims or perpetrators, the book foregrounds the everyday realities and political agency of youth in one of Europe’s most stigmatised urban areas. It argues that these young people are active agents of democratic life and reframes how we understand contemporary urban life, inequality, and youth politics within stable democracies. Combining urban sociology, critical race studies, and ethnographic methods, this book provides a nuanced, intersectional, and anti-racist account of life in the proximity of violence and stigma, and of the creative, collective strategies that emerge in response.
This Open Access book examines how youths in Malmö’s Rosengård district navigate life in the shadow of urban violence and enduring stigma. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the imaginaries and lived social experience around Sweden’s problematised urban areas and how stigmatising labels, such as “no-go zones”, are co-produced through media narratives, architectural design, and policy discourse. Rather than focusing on victims or perpetrators, the book foregrounds the everyday realities and political agency of youth in one of Europe’s most stigmatised urban areas. It argues that these young people are active agents of democratic life and reframes how we understand contemporary urban life, inequality, and youth politics within stable democracies. Combining urban sociology, critical race studies, and ethnographic methods, this book provides a nuanced, intersectional, and anti-racist account of life in the proximity of violence and stigma, and of the creative, collective strategies that emerge in response.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Reframes youth violence in Europe through anti-racist, ethnographic insights into everyday life in Malmö’s Rosengård Challenges the “no-go zone” myth by tracing its social, material, and transnational construction in Sweden Highlights how marginalised youth claim democratic space and resist stigmatisation in a highly racialised public debate
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Katharina Wuropulos
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“This study does not only show how people in Rosengård make their world. It becomes itself an exercise in worldmaking, foregrounding the agency and humanity of those whose world it describes.” (Teresa Koloma Beck, Professor of Sociology, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany)
“A groundbreaking and rare ethnographic account of everyday life in stigmatized areas that gives voice to people whose experiences are silenced. A landmark contribution to contemporary urban sociology.” (Maria Konow Lund, Professor, OsloMet University, Norway)
“Katharina Wuropulos’ sensitive study of Rosengård explores not only the violence the 'no-go zone' as a category does to our cities and communities, but also its spatial-political alternatives.” (Endre Dàny, Professor of the Sociology of Globalization, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany, and University Fellow, Charles Darwin University, Australia)
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