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