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Relational Housing Across the North-South Divide: Learning Between Albania, Uganda, and the UK

Heslop, J.; McFarlane, C.; Ormerod, E.

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J. Heslop

E. Ormerod



Abstract

In this paper we examine how to understand housing as a relational process. Drawing on research in three diverse cities, we stage an unlikely dialogue that brings together narratives of housing across the global North-South divide. In doing so, we are concerned with thinking housing relationally in two broad senses: first, housing as a relational composite of economy, space, politics, legality and materials, structured by particular relations of power and resource inequality. Second, housing as a space of learning through comparison, which connects geographically and culturally in distinct cities. What do we learn about relational thinking with regards to housing when we compare it across the global North-South divide? In response, we explore a dialogue between a set of cities often off-the-map in debates on housing and urban research: Gateshead (UK), Kampala (Uganda) and Tirana (Albania). In comparing how housing is produced, distributed and inhabited, we seek to contribute to a wider understanding of the relationalities of housing.

Citation

Heslop, J., McFarlane, C., & Ormerod, E. (2020). Relational Housing Across the North-South Divide: Learning Between Albania, Uganda, and the UK. Housing Studies, 35(9), 1607-1627. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2020.1722801

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 24, 2020
Online Publication Date Mar 12, 2020
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Jan 27, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 20, 2020
Journal Housing Studies
Print ISSN 0267-3037
Electronic ISSN 1466-1810
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 35
Issue 9
Pages 1607-1627
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2020.1722801

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