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Wacquant & Gramsci in Eastern Crete: Land conflict, stigma, and territorial ‘common sense’

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  • Ioanna Korfiati

    (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK)

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This paper aims to bring literature on stigma in conversation with Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and to examine the production of territorial stigmatisation beyond the urban sphere, in a local context of socio-spatial struggle for land. I draw on a rich urban geographical scholarship on territorial stigma to examine how regional taint, built around institutional abandonment and the construct of ‘remoteness’, is mobilised to help legitimise and impose large-scale energy and tourism investments as a form of territorial ‘common sense’ in Eastern Crete’s area of Sitia. The paper aims to contribute to the rich body of literature on territorial stigmatisation twofold: by examining the analytical usefulness of the concept to the study of the marginalisation of peripheral regions and the subsequent neoliberal drive for their ‘re-development’ at all costs; and, drawing on Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, by taking a close, critical sociological look at the production and internalisation of stigma within a local context of socio-spatial conflict and struggle.

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  • Ioanna Korfiati, 2025. "Wacquant & Gramsci in Eastern Crete: Land conflict, stigma, and territorial ‘common sense’," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 57(2-3), pages 223-240, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:57:y:2025:i:2-3:p:223-240
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241301986
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