Moving home : theorizing housing within a politics of mobility

Rae Dufty-Jones

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    Abstract

    It has been argued that the social sciences have undergone a "mobility turn" over the last decade: a paradigm shift in which movement is seen to have become increasingly important to our social worlds. For the most part, housing studies is yet to extensively engage with this "paradigm shift". In an attempt to engage with the ideas that the "mobility turn" has thrown up for housing studies this paper grapples with two key questions. First, where does housing studies fit in the new mobilities paradigm in the social sciences? And, second, how can housing studies contribute to this paradigm shift? This paper does this through an examination of how a politics of mobility can be usefully employed and extended by housing researchers. Looking specifically at two current dimensions of this politics: mobility as a right, and mobility as a resource, this paper argues that a third dimension - mobility as governmentality - should be introduced to the mobility turn's politics of mobility.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)207-222
    Number of pages16
    JournalHousing, Theory and Society
    Volume29
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Keywords

    • governmentality
    • housing
    • mobility

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