Abstract
Social context affects the way disorder is understood, but research is inconclusive about how it does so. Survey analysis highlights the role of neighborhood level conditions, while ethnographic work points toward processes of collective identity construction and out–group stigmatization that typically take place at a smaller scale. This study adopts a comparative approach, investigating reactions to increases in vacant housing on three blocks that varied in median income, racial composition, and other contextual variables of interest to scholars of disorder. Drawing upon 69 semi–structured interviews and qualitative fieldwork undertaken in 2010 and 2011, I identify two types of interpretive frames that emerge from block–level social interaction and influence perceptions of disorder. By directing attention toward specific areas of the block, active neighbors and institutions construct territories of concern that shape definitions of social and physical disorder. By attributing disorder to a morally problematic out–group, residents on all blocks construct disorderly collectivities that frame modes of civic response in terms of collective identity and culpability.
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