2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'The Grenfell Tower fire that took place in a council owned high-rise
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housing block in the early hours of 14 June 2017 in the London Borough
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of Kensington and Chelsea represented the worst fire in Britain for many
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decades. This article draws, in part, on the example of Grenfell Tower
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to interrogate some of the most pressing issues of our time around
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poverty, inequality and austerity. After a period of quiet, poverty now
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features more regularly in popular and political conversations. This is,
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in part, due to the proliferation of foodbanks that in many ways have
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become the public face of poverty in contemporary Britain. Additionally
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the increased popularity of so-called `poverty porn'' exemplified by
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programmes such as Benefit Street have provoked public and political
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debate about the realities of poverty and its causes and consequences.
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Punitive policies towards out of work benefits claimants, austerity
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measures and the proliferation of low paid and insecure work mean
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poverty has been extended to more and more people, yet at the same time
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it is a condition that is frequently stigmatised, misrepresented and
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misunderstood. Whilst evidence shows increased stereotyping and
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stigmatisation of those experiencing poverty and other related
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disadvantages, there is also evidence that the British general public on
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the whole tend to care about fairness, equality of opportunity and that
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they dislike extremes of income and wealth, although importantly they
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also generally underestimate the realities of both. It was these
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extremes of inequality that Grenfell thrust so violently into the public
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imagination with many newspapers visually capturing the gulf between
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rich and `poor'' in their pictures of the burnt out shell of Grenfell set
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against a typical block of luxury apartments of the sort that are
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proliferating in London and other cities in Britain and that,
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particularly in London, often cost in excess of a million pounds or
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more. This article looks at examples of how critical work is being done
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by those in power to manipulate and frame the terms of the discussion
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around poverty, inequality and economic insecurity and its causes and
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its consequences.'
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affiliation: 'Shildrick, T (Corresponding Author), Newcastle Univ, Sch Geog Polit
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\& Sociol, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne \& Wear, England.
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Shildrick, Tracy, Newcastle Univ, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne \& Wear, England.'
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author: Shildrick, Tracy
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author-email: tracy.shildrick@ncl.ac.uk
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author_list:
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- family: Shildrick
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given: Tracy
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1177/0038026118777424
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eissn: 1467-954X
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files: []
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issn: 0038-0261
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journal: SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
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keywords: inequality; poverty; power; stigma
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language: English
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month: JUL
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number: '4'
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number-of-cited-references: '72'
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pages: 783-798
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papis_id: 614b2062080328b492823f830543829a
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ref: Shildrick2018lessonsgrenfell
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times-cited: '46'
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title: 'Lessons from Grenfell: Poverty propaganda, stigma and class power'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000446040900004
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usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
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usage-count-since-2013: '27'
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volume: '66'
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web-of-science-categories: Sociology
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year: '2018'
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