Relational housing across the North–South divide: learning between Albania, Uganda, and the UK
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Date
2020-10-26
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Routledge
Abstract
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.
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Relational; comparative housing; precarity; neighbourhoods; economics; networks; materiality
Citation
Heslop, Julia, Colin McFarlane, and Emma Ormerod. 'Relational Housing Across the North-South Divide: Learning between Albania, Uganda, and the UK', Housing Studies, vol. 35/no. 9, (2020), pp. 1607-1627.