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Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing
Alexander, C.; Hojer Bruun, M.; Koch, I.
Authors
M. Hojer Bruun
I. Koch
Abstract
Struggles over housing are one of the most pressing social, economic and political issues of our time. Yet questions over access to, plus the redistribution and maintenance of secure housing have only recently begun to be considered anthropologically. Drawing on E.P. Thompson's concept of moral economy, this special issue addresses these questions and considers how contemporary moral economies of housing play out. Citizens try to make their demands for adequate and safe housing heard, but such aspirations are often undermined by, political rhetoric, state officials, loan terms and the law. People claim allegiances to particular moral communities, thus (re)constituting themselves as deserving of secure tenure and proper homes, often in the face of stigma, laws or policies that construct them as the very reverse. By placing fine-grained ethnographic analysis in conversation with the political economy of housing, we redefine housing as an essentially contested domain where competing understandings of citizenship are constructed, fought over and acted out.
Citation
Alexander, C., Hojer Bruun, M., & Koch, I. (2018). Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing. Critique of Anthropology, 38(2), 121-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x18758871
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 8, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 9, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jun 15, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Critique of Anthropology |
Print ISSN | 0308-275X |
Electronic ISSN | 1460-3721 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 121-139 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x18758871 |
Related Public URLs | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/80700/ |
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Alexander, C., Hojer Bruun, M. and Koch, I. (2018) 'Political economy comes home : on the moral economies of housing.', Critique of anthropology., 38 (2). pp. 121-139. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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