Purpose

Place-based community events fulfil important functions, internally and externally. They provide opportunities for people from diverse communities and cultures to encounter each other, to participate in pleasurable activities in convivial settings and to develop mutual understanding. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the value of such events as a means of resisting or challenging the deleterious effects of territorial stigmatisation.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors explore two place-based community events in areas that have been subject to territorial stigmatisation: Govanhill in Glasgow, Scotland, and South Dunedin, New Zealand. They draw on in-depth case study methods including observation and interviews with key local actors and employ inductive analysis to identify themes across the datasets.

Findings

The demonstrate how neighbourhood events in both Glasgow and Dunedin actively seek to address some of the deleterious outcomes of territorial stigmatisation by emphasising strength and asset-based discourses about the areas they reflect and represent. In their planning and organisation, both events play an important mediating role in building and empowering community, fostering intercultural encounters with difference and strengthening mutuality within their defined places. They make use of public and semi-public spaces to attract diverse groups while also increasing the visibility of marginalised populations through larger showcase events.

Research limitations/implications

The empirical element focuses only on two events, one in Glasgow, Scotland (UK), and the other in South Dunedin (New Zealand). Data generated were wholly qualitative and do not provide quantitative evidence of “change” to material circumstances in either case study community.

Practical implications

Helps organisers think about how they need to better understand their communities if they are to attract diverse participation, including how they programme public and semi-public spaces.

Social implications

Place-based community events have significant value to neighbourhoods, and they need to be resourced effectively if they are to sustain the benefits they produce. These events provide an opportunity for diverse communities to encounter each other and celebrate what they share rather than what divides them.

Originality/value

This paper is the first to examine how place-based community events help resist narratives of territorial stigmatisation, which produce negative representations about people and their environments. The paper draws on ethnographic insights generated over time rather than a one-off snapshot which undermines some events research.

中文翻译：

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基于地方的社区活动和对领土污名化的抵制

目的

基于地方的社区活动在内部和外部发挥着重要的作用。它们为来自不同社区和文化的人们提供了相互接触、在欢乐的环境中参与愉快的活动并发展相互理解的机会。本文的目的是调查此类事件作为抵制或挑战领土污名化有害影响的手段的价值。

设计/方法论/途径

作者探讨了遭受领土污名化的地区的两个基于地方的社区活动：苏格兰格拉斯哥的戈万希尔和新西兰南达尼丁。他们利用深入的案例研究方法，包括观察和采访当地主要参与者，并采用归纳分析来确定数据集中的主题。

发现

这些展示了格拉斯哥和但尼丁的邻里活动如何通过强调关于它们所反映和代表的地区的实力和基于资产的话语，积极寻求解决领土污名化的一些有害后果。在其规划和组织中，这两项活动在建设和增强社区能力、促进差异性的跨文化接触以及加强其指定地点内的相互性方面发挥着重要的中介作用。他们利用公共和半公共空间来吸引不同群体，同时通过大型展示活动提高边缘化人群的知名度。

研究局限性/影响

实证元素仅关注两个事件，一个在苏格兰格拉斯哥（英国），另一个在南达尼丁（新西兰）。生成的数据完全是定性的，并没有提供两个案例研究社区物质环境“变化”的定量证据。

实际影响

帮助组织者思考如果要吸引多元化的参与，他们需要如何更好地了解他们的社区，包括如何规划公共和半公共空间。

社会影响

基于地方的社区活动对社区具有重大价值，如果要维持其产生的效益，就需要有效地为其提供资源。这些活动为不同的社区提供了一个相互接触的机会，庆祝他们的共同点，而不是分歧。

原创性/价值

本文首次探讨了基于地方的社区事件如何帮助抵制领土污名化的叙述，这种叙述会对人们及其环境产生负面影响。这篇论文借鉴了随着时间的推移产生的民族志见解，而不是破坏某些事件研究的一次性快照。