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The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing.
- Source :
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Housing, Theory & Society . Feb2024, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p69-88. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions. Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from human geography, we examine how shared spaces manifest practices of togetherness which prefigure the enactment of socioecological degrowth. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate in Manchester (UK) to identify practices that characterize everyday housing geographies, including reappropriation, commoning, accepting limits, and territorializing tendencies. These constitute a therapeutic assemblage, facilitating wellbeing while simultaneously enfolded with(in) the political possibilities being realized on the estate to form a contingent, yet durable, instantiation of everyday degrowth. We thus contribute to revealing how transformative degrowth politics are sustained in everyday housing contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14036096
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Housing, Theory & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176201789
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2241475