ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book exposes a number of urban contexts in which territorial stigma unfold as a result of negative place reputations. It underlines the wide range of ways in which territorial stigmatisation is constituted and dealt with by different local, political and economic actors. The book focuses on the symbolic consequences of territorial stigma, with case studies on the 'blemish of place'. While place-bound stigma is most often associated to social housing estates and central or peripheral working-class dominated neighbourhoods within the city fabric, several contributions herein shed light on different types of territorial stigmatisation. Through various – sometimes rather unconventional – case studies, covering the so-called 'Global South' as well as the 'Global North', the book trace the genealogies of tainted places, and simultaneously point to generalisable findings that contribute to the theorisation of the production and contestation of place-based stigma.
