Territorial Stigmatization and Demands for Redistribution and Recognition: Exploring Spatial Injustice, Poverty, and Neoliberalism in Chile

This article argues that integrating the study of territorial stigmatization with debates on spatial injustice, redistribution, and recognition offers valuable insights into how people experience material precariousness and urban identity in disadvantaged contexts. Bridging these perspectives enhances theoretical understanding and supports locally grounded initiatives for redistribution and recognition. Based on a case study of a stigmatized, low‐income commune in Santiago de Chile—using semi‐structured interviews and documentary analysis—we examine how neighborhood experience, collective memory, and identity interact to shape material and symbolic understandings of territory. The findings reveal fragmented urban identities and intersecting demands for redistribution (infrastructure, services, security) and recognition (solidarity, community agency, historical memory), challenging dominant portrayals of these areas as merely poor and dangerous. By connecting critical traditions in urban studies, this article deepens our understanding of urban identity in marginalized spaces and contributes to efforts to advance justice through localized, context‐sensitive, redistributive and recognition‐based actions.