This article analyses working-class young people’s perceptions of and resistance to place-based stigma, through a case study of a youth-led theatre project in the East End of Glasgow, UK. The impact of stigma on working-class communities is well-established; through the effects of poverty and inequality people and places are stigmatised. Although existing literature emphasises that we must recognise how working-class people construct alternative narratives, there is limited evidence on how people in neighbourhoods with high levels of poverty manage and resist stigma. There is a dearth of research on young people’s resistance to stigma. This qualitative study found promising signs of young people’s agency to resist place-based stigma by constructing alternative narratives. Through creative work, young people were able to convey powerful messages around poverty-related issues, making visible the effects of poverty on individuals and communities and encouraging empathy and understanding. However, it was also evident that individualistic understandings of poverty are so powerfully ingrained that these alternative narratives stopped short of an explicit recognition of structural causes of poverty. This article argues that viewing resistance as a process helps to identify possibilities for supporting young people to further develop critical consciousness, to confront stigmatising discourses in a way that exposes power relations, and to generate activism.

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年轻人、基于地方的耻辱和抵抗：格拉斯哥东区的案例研究

本文通过对英国格拉斯哥东区一个青年主导的戏剧项目的案例研究，分析了工人阶级年轻人对地方耻辱的看法和抵制。耻辱对工人阶级社区的影响是显而易见的。由于贫困和不平等的影响，人和地方都受到了污名化。尽管现有文献强调我们必须认识到工人阶级如何构建另类叙事，但关于贫困程度较高的社区的人们如何管理和抵制耻辱的证据有限。关于年轻人抵制耻辱的研究很少。这项定性研究发现了年轻人通过构建替代叙事来抵制基于地方的耻辱的有希望的迹象。通过创造性工作，年轻人能够围绕贫困相关问题传达强有力的信息，使贫困对个人和社区的影响显而易见，并鼓励同情和理解。然而，同样明显的是，个人主义对贫困的理解是如此根深蒂固，以至于这些另类叙述没有明确承认贫困的结构性原因。本文认为，将抵抗视为一个过程有助于确定支持年轻人进一步发展批判意识、以揭露权力关系的方式面对污名化话语并产生激进主义的可能性。