Geographic segregation itself compounds and makes visible the indignity of exclusion
Evidence
Indignity is not only social but also ‘territorial’ (Wacquant, 2008 ). There is a social but also a ‘spatial patterning of inequality’. Separation, isolation, confi nement ’ radicalizes the objective and subjective reality of … exclusion’ (ibid., p. 198, emphasis in original). Territorial indignity adds to a long list of ‘stamps of dishonour’ (ibid.) that make suffering visible, and enhance acute feelings of indignity. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 75
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the author’s earlier chapters on moral exclusion, outsiderness (Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist), and the territorial dimension of who belongs where. — connects to: Segregation sustains conflict by institutionalizing mutual ignorance and suspicion — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104; Municipal boundary lines perpetuate racial and class segregation — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1349