@article{ref1,
title="Facing Violence: Everyday Risks in an American Housing Project",
journal="Sociology",
year="2008",
author="Blokland, Talja",
volume="42",
number="4",
pages="601-617",
abstract="Many manage risks of urban violence through constructing of no-go areas — not so the residents there. How do they manage risks of violence? This paper approaches this question through the concepts of risk and (dis)trust of Sztompka (1999) and within a framework of disadvantage in a`matrix of oppression'(Collin 2000). Based on ethnography, the paper asks how people experience risks of `street violence' and `personal violence', how they manage them, and how their discourses about it relate to institutional discourses of how to solve problems of violence. I show that violence is being accepted and rejected in their specific relation to identity enhancement and respect within a context of intersecting forms of oppression along lines of race, class and gender.Through a discourse of fate, residents tell that violence concerns the wider context of stigmatization and exclusion — which does not match with the approach of local institutions.<p />",
language="",
issn="0038-0385",
doi="10.1177/0038038508091617",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038508091617"
}