*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* CFP for RGS-IBG 2022: Housing Speculations: Conversations about Work in Progress
Convenors: Jessa Loomis (Newcastle University) and Elsa Noterman (University of Cambridge) This ‘work in progress’ session is a dynamic space for critical housing scholars to think together about housing from a variety of vantage points, conceptual framings and geographies. We welcome brief presentations (5-7 minutes) that explore a sliver of your thinking-in-progress including early theories, unfolding vignettes, dialogues with activists and colleagues, and research nuggets that keep you up at night. Seeking to foster an engaged and collegial discussion across many housing questions, this session is particularly inspired by recent work in urban, legal, and economic geography on housing markets, rights, and activism within (racialised) property and ownership regimes. We welcome scholars thinking broadly about housing and property regimes, including, but not limited to work exploring: * Financial, legal or technical mechanisms that shape the housing landscape, such as appraisal (Zaimi 2020), land contracts (Teresa 2022), algorithmic planning (Safransky 2019), and eviction infrastructures (Baker 2020). * New theoretical or conceptual directions, such as work on dis/possessive collectivism (Roy 2017), planning without property (Dorries 2022), speculative (counter) cartographies of property (Noterman 2021), the intersections of housing justice and decolonization (Ramírez 2020), and ongoing conversations about radical housing (Radical Housing Journal). * The ‘story of property’ (Brahinsky 2020) or emergent considerations about the impacts of COVID-19 on housing and housing activism (Maalsen, Rogers, & Ross 2020). * Novel housing relations such as ibuying corporate landlords (Fields 2022), housing commons and cooperative projects (Ferreri & Vidal 2021; Hodkinson 2012; Thompson 2020), and squatters movements (Martínez 2020). * How land and property are imbricated with systems of racial capitalism, settler colonialism and white supremacy (Bhandar 2018; Launius & Boyce, 2021; Nichols, 2020) so that we might better understand the role of housing and housing financialisation in the racialized accumulation of wealth over time (Markley et al., 2020; Fields & Raymond, 2021) and differential relations of precarity and houselessness (Blomley 2020; Gillespie, Hardy, & Watts 2021). Please submit a title and an abstract (up to 250 words) to Jessa Loomis (jessa.loo...@newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:jessa.loo...@newcastle.ac.uk>) and Elsa Noterman (ea...@cam.ac.uk<mailto:ea...@cam.ac.uk>) by Monday, 14 March 2022. We will respond to all submissions by the end of day on 21st March. Given the structure of this work in progress session, we are planning to conduct the session in-person. However, if circumstances prevent you from joining us in Newcastle, please be in touch and we will consider the possibility of hybrid participation. References Baker, A. (2020). Eviction as infrastructure. City, 24(1-2), 143-150. Bhandar, B. (2018). Colonial lives of property: Law, land, and racial regimes of ownership. Duke University Press. Blomley N (2020) Precarious law, hosing, and the socio-spatial order. Antipode 52(1): 36-57. Brahinsky, R. (2020). The story of property: Meditations on gentrification, renaming, and possibility. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(5), 837-855. Dorries, H. (2022). What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Ferreri M & L Vidal (2021) Public-cooperative policy mechanisms for housing commons. International Journal of Housing Policy. Fields, D., & Raymond, E. L. (2021). Racialized geographies of housing financialization. Progress in Human Geography. Fields, D. (2022, January 4). Tech and finance firms buying up homes doesn’t bode well for everyone else. 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Geographies of algorithmic violence: Redlining the smart city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44(2), 200-218. Teresa, B. F. (2022). The reemergence of land contracts in Chicago: Racialized class-monopoly rent as a recursive objective in capitalist property markets. Geoforum, 130, 35-45. Thompson M (2020) Reconstructing public housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives. Liverpool. Liverpool University Press. Zaimi, R. (2021). Rethinking “Disinvestment”: Historical geographies of predatory property relations on Chicago’s South Side. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. -- Jessa M. Loomis, PhD Lecturer in Economic Geography School of Geography, Politics & Sociology Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK Henry Daysh Building, Office 3.51 t: @jessaloomis https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncl.ac.uk%2Fgps%2Fstaff%2Fprofile%2Fjessaloomis.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C3d5b2fe834614a2d8de108da02897d30%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637825086789039680%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=V5NBzuX7efDYRbOZKF9x%2B4EyWVD2bAG%2BBLNm8pAUqAM%3D&reserved=0
