Gutiérrez Sánchez, Isabel;
(2022)
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
, 40
(3)
pp. 549-566.
10.1177/02637758221078597.
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Abstract
Drawing on the theory of the Paradigm of Governing and the Paradigm of Dwelling by the philosopher Fernández-Savater, this paper attempts to theorise a spatial politics of care through an ethnographic analysis of three grassroots initiatives – a social kitchen, an accommodation centre with refugees and a community centre – set up in Athens (Greece) as a counter-response to the crisis politics via austerity enforced in the country (2010–2018), as well as to the renewed EU border system (2016). The everyday politics of these self-organised groups is conceptualised as a Politics of Dwelling. The concept refers to a form of political praxis and capacity forged within the sphere of social reproduction and everyday life. It is argued that Dwelling as politics holds an emancipatory potentiality beyond capitalist relationships, which lies in (1) its situated/embodied nature, which marks collective processes of decision-making and organisation with an ethics of care, (2) the central role that space and material resources play in those processes.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/02637758221078597 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221078597 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Care, chronic-crisis, dwelling, everyday life, space, struggles over social reproduction |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177293 |
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