The invention of the ‘sink estate’: Consequential categorisation and the UK housing crisis
The invention of the ‘sink estate’: Consequential categorisation and the UK housing crisis
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“水槽庄园”的发明：相应的分类和英国住房危机
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2018
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T. Slater
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这篇文章探讨了一个由记者发明、被自由市场智库放大、并被英国政客转化为政策DOXA(常识)的类别的历史和实现过程：“沉没庄园”。这个贬义的代号，意指可能造成贫困、家庭破裂、失业、依赖福利、反社会行为和个人不负责任的社会住房，已成为为造成相当大的社会痛苦和加剧混乱的现行社会住房政策辩护的象征性框架。本文运用无知论(有意产生的无知)与布迪厄的象征权力理论的概念衔接，来理解构成严重不平等社会关系的制度安排和认知系统。具体地说，本文剖析了自由市场智囊团“政策交流”关于住房的极具影响力的出版物，以展示领土污名的激活如何成为城市政治的工具。有人认为，在对社会住房的意识形态攻击中，下沉产业是语义上的重击，不仅将人们的注意力从社会住房作为严重负担能力危机期间的迫切需要转移开，而且作为社区、团结、庇护所和家园的孵化器。
This article explores the history and traces the realisation of a category that was invented by journalists, amplified by free market think tanks and converted into policy doxa (common sense) by politicians in the United Kingdom: the ‘sink estate’. This derogatory designator, signifying social housing estates that supposedly create poverty, family breakdown, worklessness, welfare dependency, antisocial behaviour and personal irresponsibility, has become the symbolic frame justifying current policies towards social housing that have resulted in considerable social suffering and intensified dislocation. The article deploys a conceptual articulation of agnotology (the intentional production of ignorance) with Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power to understand the institutional arrangements and cognitive systems structuring deeply unequal social relations. Specifically, the highly influential publications on housing by a free market think tank, Policy Exchange, are dissected in order to demonstrate how the activation of territorial stigma has become an instrument of urban politics. The ‘sink estate’, it is argued, is the semantic battering ram in the ideological assault on social housing, deflecting attention away from social housing not only as urgent necessity during a serious crisis of affordability, but as incubator of community, solidarity, shelter and home.