Contested Epistemologies and Social Structures in Housing and Urban Development

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: FSE023 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC43 Housing and Built Environment (host committee)

Language: English

Housing is a prominent, visible, and direct mechanism of social stratification and marginalization. At the same time, it is considered one of the riskiest yet profitable markets, continually subject to assetisation and financialisation. The stakes are high in debates about what should be known about housing and how to address intensifying housing problems worldwide.

Contributions are invited on economic, bureaucratic and (mis)informational mechanisms leading to social and economic stratification and marginalisation.

We welcome (but are not limited to) papers that engage with the following topics:

  1. The production and dissemination of ignorance, misinformation, or doubt about solutions to housing crises, crises in transport sustainability, and urban planning for health and wellbeing.
  2. Mechanisms of marginalisation or segregation including colonialism, racialisation, gendering, financialisation and economic power in housing, the built environment and urban planning.
  3. Strategies for challenging or subverting marginalisation or economic stratification through, for example, counter-narratives and movements against eviction, displacement or gentrification.
  4. Histories of housing struggles and possible futures in challenging stratification, marginalisation and/or misinformation in housing and the built environment.
Session Organizer:
Greta WERNER, The University of Sydney, Australia
Chair:
Laura GOH, Australia
Oral Presentations
Anti-Planning Narratives, Housing Supply and Affordability: An Australian Case Study
Nicole GURRAN GURRAN, The University of Sydney, Australia; Peter PHIBBS, The University of Sydney, Australia
The Beds Economy: A New Scalar Frontier in Residential Property Markets
Tim WHITE WHITE, United Kingdom
Epistemological Struggles over Growth Pathways for Social Housing in Australia’s Multi-Provider Housing Sector
Greta WERNER, The University of Sydney, Australia; Julie LAWSON, RMIT University, Australia; Liam DAVIES, RMIT University, Australia; Laurence TROY, University of Sydney, Australia; Jago DODSON, RMIT University, Australia; David HAYWARD, RMIT University, Australia
Disgusted Spaces and Concealed Caste: Understanding Affective-Spatial Segregation in India
Amruthraj VADAKKEPURAKKAL GOPINATHAN, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS, India
Restoring Masculinity through Multiple Displacements Vs. Struggle for Dignity in Istanbul’s Transformation
Bahar SAKIZLIOGLU, Assistant Professor, Netherlands
Distributed Papers
Housing Precarity and Racialised Space: Insights from Muslim Communities and Local Authority Staff in Ireland.
James CARR, University of Limerick, Ireland; Tiba BONYAD, University of Galway, Ireland
Urban Environment and Housing Inequality in Post-Growth Society: A Case Study of Tokyo
Shun WATANABE, University of Tokyo, Japan
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