Introduction to the Special Issue: Housing Financialisation and Families
In: Critical housing analysis, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 1-3
ISSN: 2336-2839
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In: Critical housing analysis, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 1-3
ISSN: 2336-2839
In: Space and Culture, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 170-183
ISSN: 1552-8308
In this article, we propose to expand the field of urban political ecology (UPE) by analyzing the role of discourse in the production of urban nature. We exemplify our case by analyzing media discourses and exploring discursive modes of justification and hierarchies of worth mobilized in socialist and postsocialist struggles over allotments in what is now the Czech Republic. We unravel particular discursive strategies and arguments used to depoliticize the struggle and justify the abolishment of allotments. Using the example of allotments, we argue that incorporating a rigorous analysis of discourse in the scope and practice of UPE and paying close, explicit attention to how worth and value are mobilized might help us not only to better understand the complex processes of the production of socio-natures in (neoliberal) cities but also to empower UPE scholars with tools to further the fight for more just urban environments.
In: Sociologický časopis: Czech sociological review, Band 53, Heft 6, S. 805-832
ISSN: 2336-128X
In: Naše společnost, Band 2, Heft 13, S. 3
In: New political economy, Band 28, Heft 6, S. 958-970
ISSN: 1469-9923
In: Journal of political power, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 393-411
ISSN: 2158-3803
In: International journal of housing policy, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1949-1255
In: Citizenship studies, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1469-3593
In: Ediční řada Studie 133. svazek
In: Sociologický časopis: Czech sociological review, Band 59, Heft 2, S. 173-195
ISSN: 2336-128X
In: Critical housing analysis, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 39-49
ISSN: 2336-2839
This paper explores the sociotechnical change necessary for the introduction of collaborative housing projects into the Czech super-homeownership housing regime. To better understand the obduracy of the current housing system, we examine the major barriers and threats to the implementation of such projects through a series of workshops with non-experts in selected cities. Our findings suggest that the housing system's obduracy is related to social imaginaries that we conceptualise as the 'imaginary of social inertia'. This form of imaginary, along with other factors such as a lack of supporting legal and financial infrastructures, creates a complex network of obstacles that reduce the likelihood of such housing projects gaining ground. In conclusion, our research emphasises the role of imaginaries in studying obduracy and thus provides valuable insights into the processes of urban sociotechnical change.