Ortiz, Catalina; Kolovou Kouri, Marina; Sakuma, Shoko; (2023) Community-Led Housing in Yangon: The Struggles of Non-Confrontational Resistance and Feminist Crisis Management. Partecipazione e Conflitto , 16 (1) pp. 7-23. 10.1285/i20356609v16i1p07. (In press).

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In this article, we draw on community-led housing, non-confrontational resistance, and feminist crisis management literature to analyse the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the military coup in a community-led housing scheme in Yangon, Myanmar. Based on the direct involvement with a women’s grassroots network and a local NGO between 2018 and 2022, we focus on the impacts of the double crisis on low-income populations, their responses to overlapping challenges, the emergent forms of mutual care, and the extra and intra-community learnings. We argue that, in the context of authoritarian regimes, community-led housing practices constitute a modality of non-confrontational resistance that, in times of crisis, revealed how collective housing members had an important safety net—in material, emotional, and social terms—sustained through collective mobilisation and mutual care. This analysis contributes to expanding the debates on housing justice struggles, non-confrontational resistance, and care from the standpoint of grassroots women’s organisations.

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