Megan Nethercote
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Nethercote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nethercote |
| SIGNATURE | NETHERCOTE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5091-8029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Monopoly dynamics and the rise of UK single-family rental
This article offers an early account of the emergent UK single family rental market, which it argues represents a potential locus for monopoly dynamics within the UK rental sector. Conceptually, this article positions single family rental (SFR) within the rise of the ‘beds sector’ and within Brett Christophers’ asset manager society. This article further engages with total life landlordism, which theorises the asset manager practice of mopping up…
Platform landlords: Renters, personal data and new digital footholds of urban control
Under digital capitalism, the interests of landed property and digital platforms are converging. This article explores this dynamic in rental homes operated by corporate landlords by querying how private equity, pension funds and other institutional investors mobilise renters’ personal data to extract value from their assets. This article argues that as corporate landlords embrace the logics of rentier platforms, data offers a new frontier of acc…
The Techno-politics of Rental Housing Financialization: Real Estate Service Companies and Technocratic Expertise in Australia's Build to Rent Market
This article argues private expertise is a driving force behind the global expansion of rental housing financialization and, particularly, the making of build to rent (BTR) assets and markets. It develops this argument by investigating Australia’s underexamined BTR market and global real estate service companies (RESCs) as ubiquitous yet unscrutinized intermediaries in this new financialization frontier. Its analysis heeds calls to attend to asse…
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures
This article interrogates the racial logics of home and homemaking. It opens up the conceptual terrain of home to property – a technology of racial dispossession and handmaid of racial capitalism. I reconceptualize home as dominion and as belonging. Unhoming names the synergies between these modalities that authorizes the unmaking of racialized subjects’ homes. I argue unhoming is a structural feature of racial capitalism and position resistance …
The post-politicization of rental housing financialization: News media, elite storytelling and Australia's new build to rent market
Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: Future research directions
With the expansion of institutional investors into urban rental markets, many cities have witnessed a rise in Build-to-Rent (BtR). This article reviews the financialization of rental housing literature and identifies opportunities for urban housing scholars to progress understandings of BtR through future empirical and theoretical efforts. In particular, it proposes a broadening of the housing research agenda around three analytical entry points.…
Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes
This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high‐rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a “disorientated geographies” approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman‐Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of “disorientated geographies,” this paper examines the lived experience of t…
Smoking in apartment buildings – Spatiality, meanings and understandings
Kemeny revisited: The new homeownership-welfare dynamics
This article connects homeowner subjectivities and state practice to specify how the post-war homeownership-welfare dynamic has radically transformed since the 1980s. Specifically, this article revisits, 35 years on and against the onset of financialized capitalism, Jim Kemeny’s seminal thesis on the relationship between homeownership and welfare. Focusing on Australia, as a less considered case in the liberal Anglophone cluster, it traces how th…
Homeowner investor subjects as providers of family care and assistance
This article asks: What becomes of the idealized asset-accumulating investor subject rallied in asset-based welfare policy and discourse in the context of mounting social risks facing families? It brings into dialogue two disconnected literatures: one on financialized subjectivities, drawing on post-structuralist and Foucauldian analysis, the other on welfare states drawing more heavily on comparative political economy. Drawing on homeowner inter…
Melbourne’s vertical expansion and the political economies of high-rise residential development
This article advances understandings of Melbourne’s dramatic vertical expansion over the last decade by attending to the political economies of its high-rise housing development. Melbourne’s major high-rise development in the wake of the financial crisis represents a radical yet poorly understood departure from the city’s traditional patterns of suburban development. This article applies an existing conceptual framework for residential vertical u…
Revisiting the Household for Housing Research
Households are routinely adopted as units of analysis in housing-related research. The convergence of intensifying housing commodification with revisions to the social contract in Anglophone liberal market-based economies presents a salient juncture to revisit and reconsider the household, especially given rising and unequivocal expectations that contemporary households will operate as private “shock absorbers”. This article reviews conceptualiza…
Immaterial Inheritance: The Socialization of Cultures of Housing Consumption
This article progresses understandings of contemporary middle-class housing aspirations and the socialization of these within families. It examines Australian middle-class homeowners’ dispositions towards mortgage debt, using qualitative Bourdieusian analytics. By avoiding the common reduction of housing aspirations to tenure preferences, it foregrounds diverse orientations towards home-buying that suggest cultural forms of middle-class heterogen…
Caring Households: The Social Ties that House
Individuals turn increasingly to informal and family welfare to secure housing as housing and household pressures mount in advanced homeownership societies. This article sheds light on the role of less visible, less considered relations (beyond intergenerational assistance) that are currently being marshalled by low and middle-income households in Melbourne (Australia) and showcases the under-explored breadth of dependencies that exist between co…
Theorising vertical urbanisation
Taller, denser and more diverse city skylines are a hallmark of 21st century urban change. Although vertical urbanisation is increasingly ubiquitous, this development has not followed a single universal pattern. It is not uniform in its scale, its target neighourhood types, nor in its design, which spans ‘starchitect’-designed skyscrapers and generic tower blocks. Urban scholars have traditionally considered vertical development via less specific…
When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne
Under advanced capitalism, gentrification converges with the post-Keynesian 'unhinging' of the state from the project of social reproduction, including its responsibilities for collective consumption (e.g. housing, schools). Gentrification research scrutinizes this convergence through the ongoing assault on social/affordable housing, and yet anaemic housing welfare is not its endpoint. The social contract is further fractured through the ongoing …
Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families
In many new world cities, inner city apartment development proceeds at unprecedented rates. In dominant urban planning and property development discourses, new inner city dwellers are consumption-orientated young professionals and "empty nesters"-all similarly childless. Nonetheless, families make their homes in city apartments, and their experiences are not well understood. Meanwhile, within urban and political geography, new interest in vertica…
Neoliberal Welfare, Minorities and Tenancy Support
Under post-welfarist realignments in neoliberal democracies, the provision of welfare is increasingly conditional on claimants fulfilling certain (behavioural) obligations. Under these shifts, an increased focus on the cultural dimensions of conduct and belonging redefines the basis for citizenship and extends the risk of subversion to include incivility or cultural difference. Critically, this recasting of the state-citizen social contract occur…
Operationalizing a Responsibility Agenda in Australia’s Indigenous Communities: Confused, Doubtful and Subversive Public Housing Tenants
In Australia, significant current reforms to Indigenous affairs emphasize the mutual responsibilities of government and citizens. Under these new arrangements, government is mainstreaming many programmes and services for Indigenous people, whilst demanding that they assume greater responsibility for their own welfare. For its part, housing welfare in remote Indigenous and town camp communities is being repositioned under the mainstream public hou…
Reconciling Policy Tensions on the Frontlines of Indigenous Housing Provision in Australia: Reflexivity, Resistance and Hybridity
In Australia, significant recent reforms reposition Indigenous housing provision and management in remote and town camp communities under the mainstream public housing model. Two competing discourses surround this shift: a federal discourse of standardisation and state discourses of local responsiveness centred on the introduction of new community engagement processes into Indigenous public housing. This paper reports on qualitative research into…
Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: Future research directions
With the expansion of institutional investors into urban rental markets, many cities have witnessed a rise in Build-to-Rent (BtR). This article reviews the financialization of rental housing literature and identifies opportunities for urban housing scholars to progress understandings of BtR through future empirical and theoretical efforts. In particular, it proposes a broadening of the housing research agenda around three analytical entry points.…
Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families
In many new world cities, inner city apartment development proceeds at unprecedented rates. In dominant urban planning and property development discourses, new inner city dwellers are consumption-orientated young professionals and "empty nesters"-all similarly childless. Nonetheless, families make their homes in city apartments, and their experiences are not well understood. Meanwhile, within urban and political geography, new interest in vertica…
Theorising vertical urbanisation
Taller, denser and more diverse city skylines are a hallmark of 21st century urban change. Although vertical urbanisation is increasingly ubiquitous, this development has not followed a single universal pattern. It is not uniform in its scale, its target neighourhood types, nor in its design, which spans ‘starchitect’-designed skyscrapers and generic tower blocks. Urban scholars have traditionally considered vertical development via less specific…
Platform landlords: Renters, personal data and new digital footholds of urban control
Under digital capitalism, the interests of landed property and digital platforms are converging. This article explores this dynamic in rental homes operated by corporate landlords by querying how private equity, pension funds and other institutional investors mobilise renters’ personal data to extract value from their assets. This article argues that as corporate landlords embrace the logics of rentier platforms, data offers a new frontier of acc…
Melbourne’s vertical expansion and the political economies of high-rise residential development
This article advances understandings of Melbourne’s dramatic vertical expansion over the last decade by attending to the political economies of its high-rise housing development. Melbourne’s major high-rise development in the wake of the financial crisis represents a radical yet poorly understood departure from the city’s traditional patterns of suburban development. This article applies an existing conceptual framework for residential vertical u…
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures
This article interrogates the racial logics of home and homemaking. It opens up the conceptual terrain of home to property – a technology of racial dispossession and handmaid of racial capitalism. I reconceptualize home as dominion and as belonging. Unhoming names the synergies between these modalities that authorizes the unmaking of racialized subjects’ homes. I argue unhoming is a structural feature of racial capitalism and position resistance …
Kemeny revisited: The new homeownership-welfare dynamics
This article connects homeowner subjectivities and state practice to specify how the post-war homeownership-welfare dynamic has radically transformed since the 1980s. Specifically, this article revisits, 35 years on and against the onset of financialized capitalism, Jim Kemeny’s seminal thesis on the relationship between homeownership and welfare. Focusing on Australia, as a less considered case in the liberal Anglophone cluster, it traces how th…
Homeowner investor subjects as providers of family care and assistance
This article asks: What becomes of the idealized asset-accumulating investor subject rallied in asset-based welfare policy and discourse in the context of mounting social risks facing families? It brings into dialogue two disconnected literatures: one on financialized subjectivities, drawing on post-structuralist and Foucauldian analysis, the other on welfare states drawing more heavily on comparative political economy. Drawing on homeowner inter…
Immaterial Inheritance: The Socialization of Cultures of Housing Consumption
This article progresses understandings of contemporary middle-class housing aspirations and the socialization of these within families. It examines Australian middle-class homeowners’ dispositions towards mortgage debt, using qualitative Bourdieusian analytics. By avoiding the common reduction of housing aspirations to tenure preferences, it foregrounds diverse orientations towards home-buying that suggest cultural forms of middle-class heterogen…
The post-politicization of rental housing financialization: News media, elite storytelling and Australia's new build to rent market
Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes
This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high‐rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a “disorientated geographies” approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman‐Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of “disorientated geographies,” this paper examines the lived experience of t…
Revisiting the Household for Housing Research
Households are routinely adopted as units of analysis in housing-related research. The convergence of intensifying housing commodification with revisions to the social contract in Anglophone liberal market-based economies presents a salient juncture to revisit and reconsider the household, especially given rising and unequivocal expectations that contemporary households will operate as private “shock absorbers”. This article reviews conceptualiza…
Caring Households: The Social Ties that House
Individuals turn increasingly to informal and family welfare to secure housing as housing and household pressures mount in advanced homeownership societies. This article sheds light on the role of less visible, less considered relations (beyond intergenerational assistance) that are currently being marshalled by low and middle-income households in Melbourne (Australia) and showcases the under-explored breadth of dependencies that exist between co…
Reconciling Policy Tensions on the Frontlines of Indigenous Housing Provision in Australia: Reflexivity, Resistance and Hybridity
In Australia, significant recent reforms reposition Indigenous housing provision and management in remote and town camp communities under the mainstream public housing model. Two competing discourses surround this shift: a federal discourse of standardisation and state discourses of local responsiveness centred on the introduction of new community engagement processes into Indigenous public housing. This paper reports on qualitative research into…
The Techno-politics of Rental Housing Financialization: Real Estate Service Companies and Technocratic Expertise in Australia's Build to Rent Market
This article argues private expertise is a driving force behind the global expansion of rental housing financialization and, particularly, the making of build to rent (BTR) assets and markets. It develops this argument by investigating Australia’s underexamined BTR market and global real estate service companies (RESCs) as ubiquitous yet unscrutinized intermediaries in this new financialization frontier. Its analysis heeds calls to attend to asse…
When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne
Under advanced capitalism, gentrification converges with the post-Keynesian 'unhinging' of the state from the project of social reproduction, including its responsibilities for collective consumption (e.g. housing, schools). Gentrification research scrutinizes this convergence through the ongoing assault on social/affordable housing, and yet anaemic housing welfare is not its endpoint. The social contract is further fractured through the ongoing …
Operationalizing a Responsibility Agenda in Australia’s Indigenous Communities: Confused, Doubtful and Subversive Public Housing Tenants
In Australia, significant current reforms to Indigenous affairs emphasize the mutual responsibilities of government and citizens. Under these new arrangements, government is mainstreaming many programmes and services for Indigenous people, whilst demanding that they assume greater responsibility for their own welfare. For its part, housing welfare in remote Indigenous and town camp communities is being repositioned under the mainstream public hou…
Neoliberal Welfare, Minorities and Tenancy Support
Under post-welfarist realignments in neoliberal democracies, the provision of welfare is increasingly conditional on claimants fulfilling certain (behavioural) obligations. Under these shifts, an increased focus on the cultural dimensions of conduct and belonging redefines the basis for citizenship and extends the risk of subversion to include incivility or cultural difference. Critically, this recasting of the state-citizen social contract occur…
Reconciling Policy Tensions on the Frontlines of Indigenous Housing Provision in Australia: Reflexivity, Resistance and Hybridity
In Australia, significant recent reforms reposition Indigenous housing provision and management in remote and town camp communities under the mainstream public housing model. Two competing discourses surround this shift: a federal discourse of standardisation and state discourses of local responsiveness centred on the introduction of new community engagement processes into Indigenous public housing. This paper reports on qualitative research into…
Neoliberal Welfare, Minorities and Tenancy Support
Under post-welfarist realignments in neoliberal democracies, the provision of welfare is increasingly conditional on claimants fulfilling certain (behavioural) obligations. Under these shifts, an increased focus on the cultural dimensions of conduct and belonging redefines the basis for citizenship and extends the risk of subversion to include incivility or cultural difference. Critically, this recasting of the state-citizen social contract occur…
Operationalizing a Responsibility Agenda in Australia’s Indigenous Communities: Confused, Doubtful and Subversive Public Housing Tenants
In Australia, significant current reforms to Indigenous affairs emphasize the mutual responsibilities of government and citizens. Under these new arrangements, government is mainstreaming many programmes and services for Indigenous people, whilst demanding that they assume greater responsibility for their own welfare. For its part, housing welfare in remote Indigenous and town camp communities is being repositioned under the mainstream public hou…
Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families
In many new world cities, inner city apartment development proceeds at unprecedented rates. In dominant urban planning and property development discourses, new inner city dwellers are consumption-orientated young professionals and "empty nesters"-all similarly childless. Nonetheless, families make their homes in city apartments, and their experiences are not well understood. Meanwhile, within urban and political geography, new interest in vertica…
When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne
Under advanced capitalism, gentrification converges with the post-Keynesian 'unhinging' of the state from the project of social reproduction, including its responsibilities for collective consumption (e.g. housing, schools). Gentrification research scrutinizes this convergence through the ongoing assault on social/affordable housing, and yet anaemic housing welfare is not its endpoint. The social contract is further fractured through the ongoing …
Revisiting the Household for Housing Research
Households are routinely adopted as units of analysis in housing-related research. The convergence of intensifying housing commodification with revisions to the social contract in Anglophone liberal market-based economies presents a salient juncture to revisit and reconsider the household, especially given rising and unequivocal expectations that contemporary households will operate as private “shock absorbers”. This article reviews conceptualiza…
Immaterial Inheritance: The Socialization of Cultures of Housing Consumption
This article progresses understandings of contemporary middle-class housing aspirations and the socialization of these within families. It examines Australian middle-class homeowners’ dispositions towards mortgage debt, using qualitative Bourdieusian analytics. By avoiding the common reduction of housing aspirations to tenure preferences, it foregrounds diverse orientations towards home-buying that suggest cultural forms of middle-class heterogen…
Caring Households: The Social Ties that House
Individuals turn increasingly to informal and family welfare to secure housing as housing and household pressures mount in advanced homeownership societies. This article sheds light on the role of less visible, less considered relations (beyond intergenerational assistance) that are currently being marshalled by low and middle-income households in Melbourne (Australia) and showcases the under-explored breadth of dependencies that exist between co…
Theorising vertical urbanisation
Taller, denser and more diverse city skylines are a hallmark of 21st century urban change. Although vertical urbanisation is increasingly ubiquitous, this development has not followed a single universal pattern. It is not uniform in its scale, its target neighourhood types, nor in its design, which spans ‘starchitect’-designed skyscrapers and generic tower blocks. Urban scholars have traditionally considered vertical development via less specific…
Smoking in apartment buildings – Spatiality, meanings and understandings
Kemeny revisited: The new homeownership-welfare dynamics
This article connects homeowner subjectivities and state practice to specify how the post-war homeownership-welfare dynamic has radically transformed since the 1980s. Specifically, this article revisits, 35 years on and against the onset of financialized capitalism, Jim Kemeny’s seminal thesis on the relationship between homeownership and welfare. Focusing on Australia, as a less considered case in the liberal Anglophone cluster, it traces how th…
Homeowner investor subjects as providers of family care and assistance
This article asks: What becomes of the idealized asset-accumulating investor subject rallied in asset-based welfare policy and discourse in the context of mounting social risks facing families? It brings into dialogue two disconnected literatures: one on financialized subjectivities, drawing on post-structuralist and Foucauldian analysis, the other on welfare states drawing more heavily on comparative political economy. Drawing on homeowner inter…
Melbourne’s vertical expansion and the political economies of high-rise residential development
This article advances understandings of Melbourne’s dramatic vertical expansion over the last decade by attending to the political economies of its high-rise housing development. Melbourne’s major high-rise development in the wake of the financial crisis represents a radical yet poorly understood departure from the city’s traditional patterns of suburban development. This article applies an existing conceptual framework for residential vertical u…
Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: Future research directions
With the expansion of institutional investors into urban rental markets, many cities have witnessed a rise in Build-to-Rent (BtR). This article reviews the financialization of rental housing literature and identifies opportunities for urban housing scholars to progress understandings of BtR through future empirical and theoretical efforts. In particular, it proposes a broadening of the housing research agenda around three analytical entry points.…
Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes
This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high‐rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a “disorientated geographies” approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman‐Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of “disorientated geographies,” this paper examines the lived experience of t…
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures
This article interrogates the racial logics of home and homemaking. It opens up the conceptual terrain of home to property – a technology of racial dispossession and handmaid of racial capitalism. I reconceptualize home as dominion and as belonging. Unhoming names the synergies between these modalities that authorizes the unmaking of racialized subjects’ homes. I argue unhoming is a structural feature of racial capitalism and position resistance …
The post-politicization of rental housing financialization: News media, elite storytelling and Australia's new build to rent market
Platform landlords: Renters, personal data and new digital footholds of urban control
Under digital capitalism, the interests of landed property and digital platforms are converging. This article explores this dynamic in rental homes operated by corporate landlords by querying how private equity, pension funds and other institutional investors mobilise renters’ personal data to extract value from their assets. This article argues that as corporate landlords embrace the logics of rentier platforms, data offers a new frontier of acc…
The Techno-politics of Rental Housing Financialization: Real Estate Service Companies and Technocratic Expertise in Australia's Build to Rent Market
This article argues private expertise is a driving force behind the global expansion of rental housing financialization and, particularly, the making of build to rent (BTR) assets and markets. It develops this argument by investigating Australia’s underexamined BTR market and global real estate service companies (RESCs) as ubiquitous yet unscrutinized intermediaries in this new financialization frontier. Its analysis heeds calls to attend to asse…
Monopoly dynamics and the rise of UK single-family rental
This article offers an early account of the emergent UK single family rental market, which it argues represents a potential locus for monopoly dynamics within the UK rental sector. Conceptually, this article positions single family rental (SFR) within the rise of the ‘beds sector’ and within Brett Christophers’ asset manager society. This article further engages with total life landlordism, which theorises the asset manager practice of mopping up…
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