The interplay of three established-outsider figurations in a deprived inner-city neighbourhood.
This article discusses Norbert Elias' theory of established-outsider figurations and applies it to the case of one deprived inner-city neighbourhood in Germany, Dortmund Nordstadt. According to this theory, the social cohesion of the established together with the stigmatisation of outsiders leads to...
| Published in: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 41; no. 11; pp. 2159 - 2180 |
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