Geographies Beyond Inhabitation. Urban Grounds, Housing Struggles, and the Everyday Political (Part II)
Language: English
We want to engage with works focusing on how different geographies and peoples navigate the tensions between translocal and embodied dispossessive processes, enduring valuations imposed by the colonial, the gendered/heteronormative and the racial. We are interested in situated works using ethnographic, geneaological, speculative, visual and geopoetics methods.
Themes include:
· Inhabitation from the standpoint of every day of city life. What does it mean to be alive and to be 'human' in today's urban worlds?
· Inhabitation from the gateway of housing precarity and its struggles. What does housing do at the intersections of violent forms for dispossession related to lands and to bodies, financialised multi-scalar assemblages, heteronormative forms of homing, criminalisation of houselessness and bordering practices?
· Inhabitation as an emancipatory proposition from the ground of its struggle. How can one give room to forms of liberations that are not typically conceived to be 'political struggle' in Western 'radical' canons?