Stephanie Pigorsch: Partizipation und soziale Ausschließung

Reviewed by Jan Igloffstein, 2026-04-08
Translated from German version by DeepL

Stephanie Pigorsch: Partizipation und soziale Ausschließung. Eine Ethnografie im Kontext von Gemeinwesenarbeit. transcript (Bielefeld) 2025. 338 pages. ISBN 978-3-8376-7495-8. D: 49,00 EUR, A: 49,00 EUR, CH: 59,80 sFr.

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Summary

Pigorsch presents a material-based ethnography that shows how organised participation co-produces exclusion and withdrawal, but extends this internal analysis in part to explain non-use as a whole. For practice and research in community‑ and neighbourhood work as well as (urban) planning, the book is recommendable and enriching thanks to its in-depth and empirically dense reflection on concrete participation situations.

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