Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing
Desiree Fields,
Emma R. Power,
Kenton Card
Abstract:Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the Symposium examine housing movements that take care as the starting… Show more
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