‘Post-2008’ as a Field of Action and Inquiry in Uneven Housing Justice Struggles

Vilenica, Ana; McElroy, Erin; Berryessa-Erich, Felicia; Wynne, Laura; Arrigoitia, Melissa Fernández; Lancione, Michele

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“…In the aftermaths of the global financial and economic crisis of the late 2000s, the accelerating financialisation of real estate and housing, together with the growth of international tourism and mobility of wealthy classes, have produced a truly global housing crisis, met by fierce re-politicisation (see, among others, Madden & Marcuse, 2016;Vilenica et al, 2019;Potts, 2020;García-Lamarca, 2022). Italy has recently experienced increasing conflict (see, e.g., Grazioli, 2021;Portelli, 2021): 'there clearly exists a new generation of movements born in the first half of 2010s,' I wrote in my fieldwork diary during a national meeting of housing movements in October 2021.…”

Section: Deviant Italy?mentioning

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The struggle for problematising housing (in Italy): Reflections from Naples, Turin and beyond

Tulumello¹

2023

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During the last 15 years, amid the global impacts of the economic crisis, austerity politics, and increasing centrality of real estate and construction for capitalism, housing has taken central stage in public and political debates globally. In Italy, the trajectory of housing politicisation has been quite peculiar. Despite a longstanding tradition of housing conflict and a complex geography of new mobilisations, housing has remained at the margins of national discussions. Seen through the lens of Foucauldian problematisation analysis, housing has not been acknowledged as a ‘problem’ in Italy. This article engages with the Italian peculiarity through a comparative study of housing problematisation—operationalised through the dimensions of framing, coalitions and scale. I compare two cities where analogous challenges intersect with very different housing regimes and political contexts: in Turin, the capacity of short-term housing policies to address pressing problems is mirrored by a lack of engagement by institutional and politicised actors; in Naples, in a housing regime defined by informal solutions, the relations among the local authorities and social movements have oscillated among dialogue, conflict, institutionalisation and pacification. By putting these cases in conversation through a generative, relational and multi-scalar lens, I discuss housing problematisation in a country, Italy, characterised by deep regional asymmetries, regionally-specific housing regimes and a complex geography of housing conflict. By reconsidering the national case vis-à-vis broader dynamics, in conclusion, I also provide some takeaways for a reflection on the conditions, preconditions and efforts for scaling up the housing struggle.

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Section: Deviant Italy?mentioning

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The struggle for problematising housing (in Italy): Reflections from Naples, Turin and beyond

Tulumello¹

2023

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“…Geographies of housing justice too should be intersectional in their analysis, which aligns with work in tenants' movements that are increasingly centring these analyses in their own work (Huron 2018;Vasudevan 2017). Housing must be understood as a key site of rapid and overwhelming capital accumulation, to which access is restricted as a result of racialised, gendered, and colonial capitalism.…”

Section: Housing Justice As Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Radical care facilitates this understanding through an interweaving of relationality and politics and practices for survival. Housing justice scholars understand housing as relational, inalienable, and multiscalar (Right to the City Alliance 2019; Vilenica et al 2019). The emphasis found in housing justice work develops strong ties to care geographies: together, these bodies of work demonstrate the significance of understanding housing politics and tenants' experiences as connected, collective, and shaped by the relationship between what is thinkable and unthinkable.…”

Section: Housing Justice As Carementioning

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Caring Housing Futures: A Radical Care Framework for Understanding Rent Control Politics in Seattle, USA

Thompson

2022

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Hegemonic responses to housing crises overwhelmingly rely on liberal economic logics, which preclude understandings of housing inequalities as produced by intersecting structures of racial capitalism and settler colonialism. This creates housing futures that replicate housing injustice, through the reproduction of housing crises that uphold racial capitalism, the settler state, and white property ownership. To address this gap, I develop a radical care framework for analysing responses to housing crises as an approach that emphasises relationality, challenges the commodification of housing, and renders different housing futures possible. Radical care is a collective response to immediate crises and precarious futures. I apply this framework to rent control debates in Seattle, USA, which highlight the complex intersections between care and housing politics in responses to housing crises. I argue that analysing housing politics through a radical care framework helps us to account for more expansive sociopolitical imaginaries and actions that point to housing futures beyond the limits of what is deemed possible in a colonial, racial capitalist housing system.

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“…In the first issue of this journal, the editors suggested post-2008 as a framing for exploring contemporary housing crises (Vilenica et al, 2019). In this paper, I extend this post-2008 framing to include the UK's austerity politics, which completed the privatisation of asylum seeker accommodation after 2012 (Darling, 2016).…”

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Housing, the hyper-precarization of asylum seekers and the contested politics of welcome on Tyneside

Cassidy¹

2020

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This paper analyses the role of housing in shaping the contested politics of welcome in the North East of England. It argues that changes to state provision of asylum seeker housing and the introduction of new legislation to create a hostile internalised bordering regime have led to a hyper-precarization of asylum seekers, which has been contested through a range of political projects at the urban scale. On Tyneside, these projects coalesced around struggles for improvements to state-provided accommodation for asylum seekers. The analysis reveals that whilst asylum housing has become key to the articulation of the politics of welcome within cities outside of London, it is spatially and temporally differentiated. The differential political projects shaping ‘welcoming’ at the urban scale emerge from contestation between a range of actors. On Tyneside, this contested politics arises from two key shifts: a change in national and local government in 2010 and 2011, which catalysed an oppositional politics of welcome amongst regional politicians; and the emergence of a new civil society initiative on Tyneside, whose direct action destabilised the relatively sedimented existing political landscape of welcome in the region, making space for differentiated asylum seeker political subjectivities.

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‘Post-2008’ as a Field of Action and Inquiry in Uneven Housing Justice Struggles

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

The struggle for problematising housing (in Italy): Reflections from Naples, Turin and beyond

The struggle for problematising housing (in Italy): Reflections from Naples, Turin and beyond

Caring Housing Futures: A Radical Care Framework for Understanding Rent Control Politics in Seattle, USA

Housing, the hyper-precarization of asylum seekers and the contested politics of welcome on Tyneside

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