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

Korfiati, Ioanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1731-6700 2025. Wacquant & Gramsci in eastern Crete: Land conflict, stigma, and territorial ‘common sense’. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 57 (2-3) , pp. 223-240. 10.1177/0308518x241301986

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0308-518X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	1 November 2024
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2025 13:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175196

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