Caring-from infrastructures of safety
A conceptual review of care ethics, housing and domestic and family violence from Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14948360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enrique Martino (0000-0003-0827-6477, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Erika Martino |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Place & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0966369x.2026.2652974 |
| OpenAlex | W7151760405 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 76 |
Despite decades of reform, housing systems remain ill-equipped to respond to domestic and family violence (DFV), with housing and safety responses fragmented across sectors and policy domains. This conceptual review synthesises peer-reviewed and grey literature across feminist care ethics, housing studies, feminist geography, public health, and DFV to advance the concept of housing as an infrastructure of safety. Through this lens, safety planning is treated as a socio-material practice that both shapes and is shaped by housing as an infrastructure of care. The review maps how an infrastructure of safety can be conceived across micro-, meso-, and macro-geographies, reframing safety as a collective, place-based practice grounded in housing provision. The review also proposes a series of propositions to support stronger coordination across housing, DFV, health, and legal systems, with the aim of enabling stability and recovery for survivors and their communities. Future research should examine how infrastructures of safety can be developed through Indigenous-led, decommodifying, and anti-racist practices.
Conceptual framework · Context (archaeology · Domestic violence · Government (linguistics · Poison control · Disability Rights and Representation · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Starting at Home
Mapping the role of structural and interpersonal violence in the lives of women
Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation
In a Different Voice
Improving Safe Housing Access for Domestic Violence Survivors Through Systems Change
Knowing Victims
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Housing Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Survivors
Women on the move
Indigenous women and intimate partner homicide in Australia
Responses to family and domestic violence
Housing as a determinant of health for older LGBT Canadians
Practising Political Care Ethics
Creating Caring Institutions
Building the Evidence for Family Violence Policy Reform
Pluriversal planning scholarship
The Prevalence and Nature of Violence Against Women Experiencing Homelessness
What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence
Advocacy With Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Not your “poor dear”’
Spaces of safety and more-than-safety in women’s refuges in England
Domestic Violence Service Providers’ Perceptions of Safety Planning
Impact of the Domestic Violence Housing First Model on Survivors’ Safety and Housing Stability
Understanding How Domestic Violence Support Services Promote Survivor Well-being
Policies that Fail – Words that Succeed’
Homes not shelters”
Community land trusts
When social assistance reproduces social inequality
Housing
Governing homeless mothers
Cities of care
Planning with care
Housing risk’ and the neoliberal discourse of responsibilisation in Victoria
Care without coercion – mental health rights, personal recovery and trauma‐informed care
The Day-to-Day Reality of Delivering Shelter Services to Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in the Context of System and Policy Demands
Enhancing the National Dialogue on the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
A culture of care
Door Locks, Wall Stickers, Fireplaces
The Ambiguities of Homelessness Governance
The Three Planet Model
Bringing trauma-informed practice to domestic violence programs
Assembling the capacity to care
Against Cultural Competence
Conceptualising housing as infrastructure
To the Edge of the Urban Landscape
Responsibility as Responsiveness
Housing as a determinant of health equity
A Safer Housing Agenda for Women
Recentring care
Situated Knowledges
Implementation of Trauma-Informed Care in a Housing First Program for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Chronic Victims, Risky Women
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |