Territorial stigmatisation : urban renewal and displacement in a central Istanbul neighbourhood In Tarlabasi an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement marginalized residents speak about belonging stigma and what their community means to them. Based on a long term ethnographic study that includes interviews photographs and archival research Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatization is weaponized by the state and how differently stigmatized groups try to fight against the vilification of their mahalle. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades