Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home

Soaita, Adriana Mihaela

doi:10.1080/02673037.2022.2036329

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“…First, by acquiring data through digital applications (Zoom, WhatsApp, GPS, Google Maps), some researchers could reach broad but specific groups of people who were using these applications, losing sight of residents without such access. Thus, few studies on the lockdown experiences of excluded and vulnerable groups—children, the elderly, and unsheltered inhabitants—address questions about the right to the city, the right to home, and a just city, exposing and exacerbating the problems already existing before the pandemic (Alyanak, 2020; Apostolopoulou & Liodaki, 2021; Dickerson et al, 2022; Mendes, 2020; Roels et al, 2022; Soaita, 2022; Vilenica et al, 2021). Second, by having the ability to purchase big social data from commercial entities, such as app operators, some researchers could analyse attractive‐to‐publish data acquired without direct consent from respondents, which begs the question “in whose interest the research is being conducted”?…”

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Pandemic disorientations and reorientations as legacies: Scoping review of COVID‐19 impacts on European cities

Działek,

Smagacz‐Poziemska,

Krzemińska

et al. 2023

Geographical Research

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has disrupted modern urban ecosystems on an unprecedented scale. Many urban scholars have undertaken the challenge of documenting and analysing how this global health crisis has been experienced and coped with, resulting in a surge of studies on its impact on various cityscapes and domains of urban life. In this paper, we present findings from a scoping review of 138 articles on this subject published between the outbreak of the pandemic and the end of June 2022. Our review showcases scholarly accounts of cascading shifts that have occurred within urban ecosystems and provides a better understanding of conceptual and methodological alterations in research approaches. Because both the investigated impacts and the research strategies deal primarily with the consequences of losing the pre‐pandemic spatial, temporal, social, cultural, and political frames of reference, we adopt transdisciplinary disorientation theories as the review’s interpretive framework. This step proves to be fruitful in mapping and interpreting crises and breakdowns and also in revealing how an unexpected planetary ordeal has reoriented pre‐pandemic trends in urban development and transformed cities and urban life alike. We suggest that the disorienting pandemic experience can serve as a potent legacy for urban futures. However, the scale and distribution of post‐pandemic reorientations across European cities and their residents cannot yet be fully comprehended.

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Pandemic disorientations and reorientations as legacies: Scoping review of COVID‐19 impacts on European cities

Działek,

Smagacz‐Poziemska,

Krzemińska

et al. 2023

Geographical Research

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“…We also heard about good social landlords where there was a named person that someone could liaise with about problems. However, in both sectors, we heard about dissatisfaction with being listened to, and very few people participated in the governance structures of the social housing organizations they rented from (Soaita, 2022).…”

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‘I wouldn't change my flat for anything’. Is there scope for more people with learning disabilities to rent their own homes?

Quilgars,

Leishman,

Abbott

et al. 2024

Brit J Learn Disabil

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BackgroundPolicy, research, and people's own experience in the UK consistently highlight the central importance of a home of choice for people with learning disabilities. Yet attention is mainly focused on the development of specialist as opposed to generic housing options for people with learning disabilities.MethodsThis article reviews the findings from a major research study looking at the rented housing sector for people with learning disabilities. The study comprised of a review of local authority learning disability strategies; a ‘national conversation’ with key stakeholders; and thirty‐five, qualitative interviews with people with learning disabilities who rent their own homes.FindingsThe research found that local learning disability strategies are lacking in information on rented housing for people. A national consultation identified a range of challenges in accessing rented housing for people wishing to do so. Interviews with people with learning disabilities renting their own place confirmed some of these problems but also, crucially, highlighted the success for most who rented their own home. People liked renting and were managing their tenancies well with relatively modest support.ConclusionsThe evidence points to the possible benefits of a greater focus on renting for people with learning disabilities.

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“…Yet, several observers have been witnessing a global shift from less traditionally contentious movements towards silent, progressive reactions against marginalisation (Bayat, 1997;Boltanski and Chiappello, 2005;Della Porta and Diani;2020, Simone, 2004Tilly and Tarrow, 2015). In housing studies as well, a growing literature is demonstrating how silent activities are surging and often powerfully altering housing marginalization-activities that range from: the exchange of useful information among neighbors; covert operations that sabotage public infrastructure works; civil society pressure on members of the local political class; and even social imaginary exchanges and resistance thinking and dreaming among pairs (Accornero, 2021;Centner, 2012;François, 2014;Ghazali, 2021;Soaita, 2022;Vieira da Cunha, 2018).…”

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What is radical?: Silent and noisy intersections in Abidjan’s struggles against housing precarity

Guida

2024

RHJ

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Is it time to reconsider radical housing struggles? This is the main question animating the article, in the light of telling evidence from Abidjan’s contemporary evictions, where dwellers put in place a plethora of practices against their displacement, from collective to individual ones. The study builds on Abidjan’s eviction programs under the SDUGA (Schéma Directeur d’Urbanisme Grand Abidjan) to pick up three urban scenarios of neighbourhoods’ reaction to precarity, considering data from scientific and administrative papers, press review, and interviews and participant observations. Conventional and non-conventional forms of reaction to eviction in the three case studies inform a more dynamic reading of the concept of radicality. A radicality referred to the aim and not to the outcome of a struggle, a subjective concept belonging to the perception of those who struggle, an objective feature that shares a semantic familiarity with the essential core of the oppressive force.

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Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home

Cited by 13 publications

References 62 publications

Pandemic disorientations and reorientations as legacies: Scoping review of COVID‐19 impacts on European cities

Pandemic disorientations and reorientations as legacies: Scoping review of COVID‐19 impacts on European cities

‘I wouldn't change my flat for anything’. Is there scope for more people with learning disabilities to rent their own homes?

What is radical?: Silent and noisy intersections in Abidjan’s struggles against housing precarity

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