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Constructing Perceived Boundaries: How NIMBY Discourses Create Boundaries of Exclusion Regarding Safe Consumption Sites
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This paper examines urban politics through the lens of NIMBYism within the context of Safe Consumption Sites (SCS). It establishes NIMBYism as an ideology characterized by psychological boundary-making, before analyzing NIMBY discourses in Alberta. It conducts a discourse analysis of the Government of Alberta’s Report Socioeconomic Review of Supervised Consumption Sites, as well as the ‘Scona Concerned Citizens (SCC) and the Chinatown and Area Business Association (CABA). This dual analysis allows for greater insight into both governmental and citizen-based perspectives on NIMBYism. The discourse from these sources will be grouped within four codes, Dirty, Drugs, Danger, and Contamination, which are adapted from Toft (2014). Findings reveal the Government report's technical language aimed at expertise, with the most prevalent codes being drugs and danger. However, the technical language within the report was undermined by methodological issues including crime measurement biases, confirmation bias, and outcome-reporting bias. In contrast, this paper finds that the SCC and CABA present subjective NIMBY discourse emphasizing contamination and drugs, reflecting a more grassroots perspective.
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- 2024-01-01
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