Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC43 Housing and Built Environment

Program Coordinators: Helena CERMENO MEDIAVILLA (University of Kassel, Germany) and Greta WERNER (The University of Sydney, Australia)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Revisiting the Housing Question As a Social-Ecological Question (Part I)
Session Organizer: Margaret HADERER
Chair: Margaret HADERER

13:00-14:45

Eviction and Precarity in the Private Rental Sector (Part I)
Session Organizer: Alan MORRIS
Chair: Paul WATT

15:00-16:45

Revisiting the Housing Question As a Social-Ecological Question (Part II)
Session Organizer: Margaret HADERER

19:00-20:30

Eviction and Precarity in the Private Rental Sector (Part II)
Session Organizer: Alan MORRIS
Chair: Alan MORRIS

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Global Perspectives on Collaborative Housing: Re-Emergence and Evolution of Self-Organized, Participatory Housing Practices
Session Organizer: Laura GOH
Chair: Alan MORRIS

11:00-12:45

Displacement, Peripheralization and Dignity in Housing Politics (Part I)
Session Organizers: Romola SANYAL and Mara FERRERI
Chair: Mara FERRERI

13:00-14:45

Contested Epistemologies and Social Structures in Housing and Urban Development
Session Organizer: Greta WERNER
Chair: Laura GOH

15:00-16:45

Keynote
Session Organizer: Greta WERNER

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Exploring Student Housing: Connecting Higher Education to Social and Spatial Justice
Session Organizers: Silvia MUGNANO and Misa IZUHARA

11:00-12:45

Housing, Health, and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Session Organizer: Laura GOH
Chair: Greta WERNER

13:00-14:45

Displacement, Peripheralization and Dignity in Housing Politics (Part II)
Session Organizers: Romola SANYAL and Mara FERRERI
Chair: Romola SANYAL

15:00-16:45

RC43 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Infrastructuring (in)Justice: Navigating the Built Environment-Conflict Nexus (Part I)
Session Organizers: Katja MIELKE and Helena CERMENO MEDIAVILLA

11:00-12:45

Infrastructuring (in)Justice: Navigating the Built Environment-Conflict Nexus (Part II)
Session Organizers: Helena CERMENO MEDIAVILLA and Katja MIELKE
Chair: Helena CERMENO MEDIAVILLA

13:00-14:45

How Nongovernment Organizations Affect Justice and Equity in Climate Disasters: New Directions in Theory and Practice
Session Organizers: Michelle MEYER and Gregory WITKOWSKI

15:00-16:45

Infrastructuring (in)Justice: Navigating the Built Environment-Conflict Nexus (Part III)
Session Organizers: Helena CERMENO MEDIAVILLA and Katja MIELKE
Chair: Katja MIELKE

19:00-20:30

Demography, Inequality and Community Development in Mixed-Tenure Neighbourhoods (Part I)
Session Organizers: Paul WATT, Rana KHAZBAK and Greta WERNER
Chair: Paul WATT

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Housing Inequality and Justice (Part I)
Session Organizers: Can CUI, Xueying MU and Youqin HUANG
Chair: Riccardo VALENTE

11:00-12:45

Housing Inequality and Justice (Part II)
Session Organizers: Can CUI, Xueying MU and Youqin HUANG
Chair: Can CUI

13:00-14:45

Demography, Inequality and Community Development in Mixed-Tenure Neighbourhoods (Part II)
Session Organizers: Paul WATT, Rana KHAZBAK and Greta WERNER
Chair: Rana KHAZBAK

15:00-16:45

Housing Inequality and Justice (Part III)
Session Organizers: Youqin HUANG, Xueying MU and Can CUI
Chair: Rowan ARUNDEL