Housing and Home Unbound - Intersections in economics, environment and politics in Australia (Hardcover)

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds. Cutting across disciplines, the book opens up the conceptual and empirical study of housing and home by exploring the coproduction of the concrete and the abstract, the intimate and the institutional, the experiential and the collective. Exploring diverse examples in Australia and New Zealand, contributors address the interleaving of money and materials in the digital commodity of real estate, the neoliberal invention of housing as a liquid asset and source of welfare provision, and the bundling of car and home in housing markets. The more-than-human relations of housing and home are articulated through the role of suburban nature in the making of Australian modernity, the marketing of nature in waterfront urban renewal, the role of domestic territory in subversive social movements such as Seasteading and Tiny Houses, and the search for home comfort through low-cost energy efficiency practices. The transformative politics of housing and home are explored through the decolonizing of housing tenure, the shaping of housing policy by urban social movements, the lived importance of marginal spaces in Indigenous and other housing, and the affective lessons of the ruin. Beginning with the diverse elements gathered together in housing and home, the text opens up the complex realities and possibilities of human dwelling.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Housing Research Series
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Nicole Cook • Aidan Davison • Louise Crabtree
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-94897-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Property & real estate Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Money & Finance > Property & real estate
LSN:	1-138-94897-7
Barcode:	9781138948976

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