Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Biographic Data
| ID | 1519476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriana Mihaela Soaita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriana Mihaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Soaita |
| SIGNATURE | SOAITA A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2874-6763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 353 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Self-initiated residential mobility in pandemic times: A Schumpeterian perspective
This paper reads voluntary residential relocation during the COVID-19 pan-demic in Romania through the lens of creative destruction, counter-balancingits more common framing of disruption. Revisiting Schumpeter’s classicthesis, we adapt its economic concepts into a social vocabulary of new“lifeforms,” “mutations” and “wants,” enacted by agentic pandemic moversin pursuit of a better way of life. Drawing on 77 qualitative questionnaires, weexamine …
The social vibe of the tenant/landlord relationship in a ‘tenant market’: The case of Romania
Invited presentation at the University of Glasgow, Urban Studies' Monday Research Workshop on 4 March 2024. The presentation examines the subjective perceptions and mitigation practices of the relational risks of renting. Drawing on relational and cultural theories of risk and methodologically on 114 qualitative questionnaires with tenants and landlords, I argue that the Romanian private renting sector works as a 'tenant market' not least because…
Landlords’ and tenants’ pathways into renting: The case of Romania
Taking the case of the emerging private rental sector in the world’s top homeownership society, the paper proposes two theoretical expansions of broader interest to international housing studies. First, by drawing on insights from visual-elicitation, life-history interviews, I return the housing pathway framework to its original social-constructivist cast in order to expand beyond occupants’ tenure-applications to a broader, more dynamic perspect…
Structures of feeling in the affective economies of renting in the Majority World: An interpretative synthesis of qualitative research
Urban imaginaries in the affective politics of becoming a new town in Romania
The post-2000 urbanisation wave of Eastern Europe, which saw about 470 communes granted township status, has received minimal attention in urban studies. This paper focuses on the key case of Romania where rural-to-urban reclassification, and its reversal, are grassroots-driven and contingent on local referenda. Given this democratic process, we examine the urban imaginaries that have shaped these referenda and their aftermath, and how they relat…
Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home’s severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across the globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for a rented property to be made home, and in that debate tenants’ voices should be heard. Taking the UK as a case-study and drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, the paper focus…
Policy movement in housing research: A critical interpretative synthesis
The movement of housing policy across space/time has attracted considerable policy and scholarly interest. But once we accept that policy moves, interesting questions arise. Particularly: what is it that moves? Why do some policies move but others do not? Academic conversations have involved concepts like “policy diffusion”, “policy transfer”, “lesson-drawing”, “fast policy”, “policy mobility” and “policy translation” - but a clear picture of how…
A rhythmanalysis of the (de)/(re)territorialisation of self in international migration
Drawing empirically on the case of Romanian migrants in the UK, this paper reflects on some of the ways in which the intertwined rhythms of education, work, housing, home, place, family and body combine and contribute to the (de)/(re)territorialisation of the self in migration. While rhythmanalysis gained currency in the study of urban processes, I take the challenge of exploring its potential for understanding migrants’ experiences of traversing…
Introducing Rhythmanalysis through the Work of Dawn Lyon
Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods, by Dawn Lyon, London and New York, Bloomsburry Publishing, 144 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-35018-889-1 Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance, edited by Dawn Lyon, Bingley UK, Emerald Publishing, 304 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-83909-973-1
The private rental sector in Australia: Living with uncertainty
The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty, by Alan Morris, Kath Hulse, and Hal Pawson, Germany: Springer Singapore, 2021, 169 pp., £49.99, ISBN 978-981-33-6671-8 (pbk) ISBN 978-981-33-6671-8 ISBN 978-981-33-6672-5 (eBook)
Translocal ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria’s abandoned elderly
Translocal ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria’s abandoned elderly, by Deljana Iossifova, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan Pivot series, 2020, X, 146 pp., 51,99 € (hardback) ISBN: 978-3-030-60822-4; €42,79 (eBook), ISBN: 978- 3-030-60823-1
Peripheralitysquared: Mapping the fractal spatiality of peripheralization in the Danube region of Romania
Starting from the assumption that the core/periphery relations are fractal assemblages of scale of varying intensity, this paper explores and maps at a finely-grained scale the alignment between the socioeconomic and relational attributes of place in a context of peripheralitysquared whereby further peripheralization occurs within a ‘periphery’. To illustrate this context we focus on the Danube region of Romania. Building on two relatively dispar…
Housing stratification in Romania: Mapping a decade of change
Given increasing economic affluence, improvement in housing conditions and population decline in the last three decades, Romanians should be more likely to experience better housing than ever before, particularly in terms of the availability and affordability of space. But substantial improvement alongside numerous people still suffering poor conditions begs the important question of who has benefited and who has been excluded. Engaging the theor…
Researching Home’s Tangible and Intangible Materialities by Photo-Elicitation
Drawing on participant-generated photo-elicitation in telephone interviews conducted with private tenants in Britain, we contribute to a new strand of home literature that engages with the vibrant materiality of things. In particular, the paper reflects on how our innovative methodological approach empowered participants to introduce their own points of view through ‘thick’ descriptions, revealed previously undocumented home practices and enabled…
Urban Narratives on the Changing Nature of Social Capital in Post-Communist Romania
Drawing on 69 interviews and information from the World Values Surveys, we examine discursive understandings of social capital in Romania. We evidence two dominant explanatory metanarratives on the weakness of social capital ('communism' and 'ethnocentric individualism') and dilemmas regarding generational and urban/rural differences, which our mixed-methods approach helps decode. Contemporary processes of institutionalisation and commodification…
Generation rent’ and the emotions of private renting: Self-worth, status and insecurity amongst low-income renters
The UK private-rented sector is increasingly accommodating a diverse range of households, many of whom are young people struggling to access other forms of housing. For those at the bottom end of the sector, who typically have limited economic resources, it is a precarious housing tenure due to its expense and insecurity, yet few studies have explored qualitatively the emotional consequences of this for well-being. We address this gap in the ‘gen…
Assembling a ‘kind of’ home in the UK private renting sector
Drawing on assemblage-thinking and specific assemblage concepts, this article explores the ways in which young, less affluent people create a sense of home in an unregulated, market-based private renting sector (PRS) that confers reduced tenant agency and frequent, undesired residential mobility. For this context, we propose the concept of ‘home-assembling’ to account for the ontologically, normatively and emotionally different processes involved…
Reimagining home in the 21st century
No abstract available
Community as urban practice
No abstract available
(Un)Bounding Housing and Home: Two Perspectives
Housing and Home Unbound: Intersections in Economics, Environments and Politics in Australia, edited by Nicole Cook, Aidan Davison, and Louise Crabtree, Abington and New York, Routledge, 2016, 239 pp., £110.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1- 138-94897-6. Thinking on Housing: Words, Memory, Use by Peter King, London and New York, Routledge Focus, 2017, 56 pp., £48.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-29384-7
A Critical-Realist View of Housing Quality within the Post-Communist EU States: Progressing towards a Middle-Range Explanation
Employing a long-term perspective, we explore whether ideologically rooted quality outcomes of housing provision under communism have persisted during the post-communist construction of housing markets. Drawing on theories of path-dependent change, we hypothesize that patterns of housing quality still reflect past lines of division, namely the Soviet housing model, and the classical and reformist models of the Eastern Bloc. Using a critical-reali…
Becoming a landlord: Strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain
Ongoing neoliberal policies have realigned the links between housing and welfare, positioning residential property investment – commonly through homeownership and exceptionally also through landlordism – at the core of households’ asset-building strategies. Nonetheless, the private rented sector (PRS) has been commonly portrayed as a tenure option for tenants rather than a welfare strategy for landlords. Drawing on qualitative interviews with lan…
Generation Rent' and The Fallacy of Choice
The now widely used term 'Generation Rent' reflects the growing phenomenon in the UK of young people living in the private rental sector for longer periods of their lives. Given the importance of leaving home in youth transitions to adulthood, this is a significant change. It is further critical given the rapid expansion of the private rented sector in the UK over recent decades and the more limited rights that private tenants have. This article …
Supported Housing in Britain and Sweden
No abstract available
Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: Economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions
The term ‘Generation Rent’ denotes young people who are increasingly living in the private rented sector for longer periods of their lives because they are unable to access homeownership or social housing. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies with young people and key-actors, this paper considers the phenomenon of ‘Generation Rent’ from the perspective of youth transitions and the concept of ‘home’. These frameworks posit that young peopl…
Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: Economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions
The term ‘Generation Rent’ denotes young people who are increasingly living in the private rented sector for longer periods of their lives because they are unable to access homeownership or social housing. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies with young people and key-actors, this paper considers the phenomenon of ‘Generation Rent’ from the perspective of youth transitions and the concept of ‘home’. These frameworks posit that young peopl…
Generation Rent' and The Fallacy of Choice
The now widely used term 'Generation Rent' reflects the growing phenomenon in the UK of young people living in the private rental sector for longer periods of their lives. Given the importance of leaving home in youth transitions to adulthood, this is a significant change. It is further critical given the rapid expansion of the private rented sector in the UK over recent decades and the more limited rights that private tenants have. This article …
Generation rent’ and the emotions of private renting: Self-worth, status and insecurity amongst low-income renters
The UK private-rented sector is increasingly accommodating a diverse range of households, many of whom are young people struggling to access other forms of housing. For those at the bottom end of the sector, who typically have limited economic resources, it is a precarious housing tenure due to its expense and insecurity, yet few studies have explored qualitatively the emotional consequences of this for well-being. We address this gap in the ‘gen…
Assembling a ‘kind of’ home in the UK private renting sector
Drawing on assemblage-thinking and specific assemblage concepts, this article explores the ways in which young, less affluent people create a sense of home in an unregulated, market-based private renting sector (PRS) that confers reduced tenant agency and frequent, undesired residential mobility. For this context, we propose the concept of ‘home-assembling’ to account for the ontologically, normatively and emotionally different processes involved…
Becoming a landlord: Strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain
Ongoing neoliberal policies have realigned the links between housing and welfare, positioning residential property investment – commonly through homeownership and exceptionally also through landlordism – at the core of households’ asset-building strategies. Nonetheless, the private rented sector (PRS) has been commonly portrayed as a tenure option for tenants rather than a welfare strategy for landlords. Drawing on qualitative interviews with lan…
A Critical-Realist View of Housing Quality within the Post-Communist EU States: Progressing towards a Middle-Range Explanation
Employing a long-term perspective, we explore whether ideologically rooted quality outcomes of housing provision under communism have persisted during the post-communist construction of housing markets. Drawing on theories of path-dependent change, we hypothesize that patterns of housing quality still reflect past lines of division, namely the Soviet housing model, and the classical and reformist models of the Eastern Bloc. Using a critical-reali…
Debt amnesia: Homeowners' discourses on the financial costs and gains of homebuying
In Anglo-Saxon societies, homeowners expect to create synergies between the owned house seen as a space of shelter, a place of home, a store of wealth and increasingly, an investment vehicle (and an object of debt). Drawing on interviews with owner-occupiers and on historic house value and mortgage data in Great Britain, we examine the way in which homes' meanings are negotiated through the subjective calculation of the financial costs and gains …
Romanian Suburban Housing: Home Improvement through Owner-building
The new suburban housing developments in post-socialist cities have been ubiquitous icons of socioeconomic and physical change. This paper examines suburban owner-built housing as a long-term strategy of home improvement in Romania. It analyses residents’ motivations and financial strategies to move up the housing ladder through owner-building and their responses to key neighbourhood problems, in particular poor public infrastructure and non-exis…
The meaning of home in Romania: Views from urban owner–occupiers
Strategies for In Situ Home Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates
Socio-economic and physical change have visibly affected post-socialist cities, yet the state of decay of their inherited large housing estates has only deepened throughout the 1990s, despite the change in tenure through policies of large-scale privatisation. Housing disrepair has now reached a critical stage that requires rapid private and public intervention. This paper examines the extent to which Romanian block residents have been able to imp…
A rhythmanalysis of the (de)/(re)territorialisation of self in international migration
Drawing empirically on the case of Romanian migrants in the UK, this paper reflects on some of the ways in which the intertwined rhythms of education, work, housing, home, place, family and body combine and contribute to the (de)/(re)territorialisation of the self in migration. While rhythmanalysis gained currency in the study of urban processes, I take the challenge of exploring its potential for understanding migrants’ experiences of traversing…
Researching Home’s Tangible and Intangible Materialities by Photo-Elicitation
Drawing on participant-generated photo-elicitation in telephone interviews conducted with private tenants in Britain, we contribute to a new strand of home literature that engages with the vibrant materiality of things. In particular, the paper reflects on how our innovative methodological approach empowered participants to introduce their own points of view through ‘thick’ descriptions, revealed previously undocumented home practices and enabled…
Overcrowding and 'Underoccupancy' in Romania: A Case Study of Housing Inequality
This paper examines aspects of space consumption in two very different housing types: The communist mid-rise estates and postcommunist suburban self-built housing. Examining residents' perceptions in order to categorise space as overcrowded or underoccupied, the paper engages critically with the issue of the inefficient distribution of Romanian housing: that is, a considerable mismatch between dwelling and household size. The analysis documents t…
Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home’s severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across the globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for a rented property to be made home, and in that debate tenants’ voices should be heard. Taking the UK as a case-study and drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, the paper focus…
Policy movement in housing research: A critical interpretative synthesis
The movement of housing policy across space/time has attracted considerable policy and scholarly interest. But once we accept that policy moves, interesting questions arise. Particularly: what is it that moves? Why do some policies move but others do not? Academic conversations have involved concepts like “policy diffusion”, “policy transfer”, “lesson-drawing”, “fast policy”, “policy mobility” and “policy translation” - but a clear picture of how…
Housing stratification in Romania: Mapping a decade of change
Given increasing economic affluence, improvement in housing conditions and population decline in the last three decades, Romanians should be more likely to experience better housing than ever before, particularly in terms of the availability and affordability of space. But substantial improvement alongside numerous people still suffering poor conditions begs the important question of who has benefited and who has been excluded. Engaging the theor…
Structures of feeling in the affective economies of renting in the Majority World: An interpretative synthesis of qualitative research
Urban Narratives on the Changing Nature of Social Capital in Post-Communist Romania
Drawing on 69 interviews and information from the World Values Surveys, we examine discursive understandings of social capital in Romania. We evidence two dominant explanatory metanarratives on the weakness of social capital ('communism' and 'ethnocentric individualism') and dilemmas regarding generational and urban/rural differences, which our mixed-methods approach helps decode. Contemporary processes of institutionalisation and commodification…
The social vibe of the tenant/landlord relationship in a ‘tenant market’: The case of Romania
Invited presentation at the University of Glasgow, Urban Studies' Monday Research Workshop on 4 March 2024. The presentation examines the subjective perceptions and mitigation practices of the relational risks of renting. Drawing on relational and cultural theories of risk and methodologically on 114 qualitative questionnaires with tenants and landlords, I argue that the Romanian private renting sector works as a 'tenant market' not least because…
Urban imaginaries in the affective politics of becoming a new town in Romania
The post-2000 urbanisation wave of Eastern Europe, which saw about 470 communes granted township status, has received minimal attention in urban studies. This paper focuses on the key case of Romania where rural-to-urban reclassification, and its reversal, are grassroots-driven and contingent on local referenda. Given this democratic process, we examine the urban imaginaries that have shaped these referenda and their aftermath, and how they relat…
Strategies for In Situ Home Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates
Socio-economic and physical change have visibly affected post-socialist cities, yet the state of decay of their inherited large housing estates has only deepened throughout the 1990s, despite the change in tenure through policies of large-scale privatisation. Housing disrepair has now reached a critical stage that requires rapid private and public intervention. This paper examines the extent to which Romanian block residents have been able to imp…
Romanian Suburban Housing: Home Improvement through Owner-building
The new suburban housing developments in post-socialist cities have been ubiquitous icons of socioeconomic and physical change. This paper examines suburban owner-built housing as a long-term strategy of home improvement in Romania. It analyses residents’ motivations and financial strategies to move up the housing ladder through owner-building and their responses to key neighbourhood problems, in particular poor public infrastructure and non-exis…
The meaning of home in Romania: Views from urban owner–occupiers
Overcrowding and 'Underoccupancy' in Romania: A Case Study of Housing Inequality
This paper examines aspects of space consumption in two very different housing types: The communist mid-rise estates and postcommunist suburban self-built housing. Examining residents' perceptions in order to categorise space as overcrowded or underoccupied, the paper engages critically with the issue of the inefficient distribution of Romanian housing: that is, a considerable mismatch between dwelling and household size. The analysis documents t…
Supported Housing in Britain and Sweden
No abstract available
Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: Economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions
The term ‘Generation Rent’ denotes young people who are increasingly living in the private rented sector for longer periods of their lives because they are unable to access homeownership or social housing. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies with young people and key-actors, this paper considers the phenomenon of ‘Generation Rent’ from the perspective of youth transitions and the concept of ‘home’. These frameworks posit that young peopl…
Debt amnesia: Homeowners' discourses on the financial costs and gains of homebuying
In Anglo-Saxon societies, homeowners expect to create synergies between the owned house seen as a space of shelter, a place of home, a store of wealth and increasingly, an investment vehicle (and an object of debt). Drawing on interviews with owner-occupiers and on historic house value and mortgage data in Great Britain, we examine the way in which homes' meanings are negotiated through the subjective calculation of the financial costs and gains …
(Un)Bounding Housing and Home: Two Perspectives
Housing and Home Unbound: Intersections in Economics, Environments and Politics in Australia, edited by Nicole Cook, Aidan Davison, and Louise Crabtree, Abington and New York, Routledge, 2016, 239 pp., £110.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1- 138-94897-6. Thinking on Housing: Words, Memory, Use by Peter King, London and New York, Routledge Focus, 2017, 56 pp., £48.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-29384-7
A Critical-Realist View of Housing Quality within the Post-Communist EU States: Progressing towards a Middle-Range Explanation
Employing a long-term perspective, we explore whether ideologically rooted quality outcomes of housing provision under communism have persisted during the post-communist construction of housing markets. Drawing on theories of path-dependent change, we hypothesize that patterns of housing quality still reflect past lines of division, namely the Soviet housing model, and the classical and reformist models of the Eastern Bloc. Using a critical-reali…
Becoming a landlord: Strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain
Ongoing neoliberal policies have realigned the links between housing and welfare, positioning residential property investment – commonly through homeownership and exceptionally also through landlordism – at the core of households’ asset-building strategies. Nonetheless, the private rented sector (PRS) has been commonly portrayed as a tenure option for tenants rather than a welfare strategy for landlords. Drawing on qualitative interviews with lan…
Generation Rent' and The Fallacy of Choice
The now widely used term 'Generation Rent' reflects the growing phenomenon in the UK of young people living in the private rental sector for longer periods of their lives. Given the importance of leaving home in youth transitions to adulthood, this is a significant change. It is further critical given the rapid expansion of the private rented sector in the UK over recent decades and the more limited rights that private tenants have. This article …
Reimagining home in the 21st century
No abstract available
Community as urban practice
No abstract available
Assembling a ‘kind of’ home in the UK private renting sector
Drawing on assemblage-thinking and specific assemblage concepts, this article explores the ways in which young, less affluent people create a sense of home in an unregulated, market-based private renting sector (PRS) that confers reduced tenant agency and frequent, undesired residential mobility. For this context, we propose the concept of ‘home-assembling’ to account for the ontologically, normatively and emotionally different processes involved…
Housing stratification in Romania: Mapping a decade of change
Given increasing economic affluence, improvement in housing conditions and population decline in the last three decades, Romanians should be more likely to experience better housing than ever before, particularly in terms of the availability and affordability of space. But substantial improvement alongside numerous people still suffering poor conditions begs the important question of who has benefited and who has been excluded. Engaging the theor…
Researching Home’s Tangible and Intangible Materialities by Photo-Elicitation
Drawing on participant-generated photo-elicitation in telephone interviews conducted with private tenants in Britain, we contribute to a new strand of home literature that engages with the vibrant materiality of things. In particular, the paper reflects on how our innovative methodological approach empowered participants to introduce their own points of view through ‘thick’ descriptions, revealed previously undocumented home practices and enabled…
Urban Narratives on the Changing Nature of Social Capital in Post-Communist Romania
Drawing on 69 interviews and information from the World Values Surveys, we examine discursive understandings of social capital in Romania. We evidence two dominant explanatory metanarratives on the weakness of social capital ('communism' and 'ethnocentric individualism') and dilemmas regarding generational and urban/rural differences, which our mixed-methods approach helps decode. Contemporary processes of institutionalisation and commodification…
Generation rent’ and the emotions of private renting: Self-worth, status and insecurity amongst low-income renters
The UK private-rented sector is increasingly accommodating a diverse range of households, many of whom are young people struggling to access other forms of housing. For those at the bottom end of the sector, who typically have limited economic resources, it is a precarious housing tenure due to its expense and insecurity, yet few studies have explored qualitatively the emotional consequences of this for well-being. We address this gap in the ‘gen…
The private rental sector in Australia: Living with uncertainty
The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty, by Alan Morris, Kath Hulse, and Hal Pawson, Germany: Springer Singapore, 2021, 169 pp., £49.99, ISBN 978-981-33-6671-8 (pbk) ISBN 978-981-33-6671-8 ISBN 978-981-33-6672-5 (eBook)
Translocal ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria’s abandoned elderly
Translocal ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria’s abandoned elderly, by Deljana Iossifova, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan Pivot series, 2020, X, 146 pp., 51,99 € (hardback) ISBN: 978-3-030-60822-4; €42,79 (eBook), ISBN: 978- 3-030-60823-1
Peripheralitysquared: Mapping the fractal spatiality of peripheralization in the Danube region of Romania
Starting from the assumption that the core/periphery relations are fractal assemblages of scale of varying intensity, this paper explores and maps at a finely-grained scale the alignment between the socioeconomic and relational attributes of place in a context of peripheralitysquared whereby further peripheralization occurs within a ‘periphery’. To illustrate this context we focus on the Danube region of Romania. Building on two relatively dispar…
Introducing Rhythmanalysis through the Work of Dawn Lyon
Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods, by Dawn Lyon, London and New York, Bloomsburry Publishing, 144 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-35018-889-1 Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance, edited by Dawn Lyon, Bingley UK, Emerald Publishing, 304 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-83909-973-1
Policy movement in housing research: A critical interpretative synthesis
The movement of housing policy across space/time has attracted considerable policy and scholarly interest. But once we accept that policy moves, interesting questions arise. Particularly: what is it that moves? Why do some policies move but others do not? Academic conversations have involved concepts like “policy diffusion”, “policy transfer”, “lesson-drawing”, “fast policy”, “policy mobility” and “policy translation” - but a clear picture of how…
A rhythmanalysis of the (de)/(re)territorialisation of self in international migration
Drawing empirically on the case of Romanian migrants in the UK, this paper reflects on some of the ways in which the intertwined rhythms of education, work, housing, home, place, family and body combine and contribute to the (de)/(re)territorialisation of the self in migration. While rhythmanalysis gained currency in the study of urban processes, I take the challenge of exploring its potential for understanding migrants’ experiences of traversing…
Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home’s severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across the globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for a rented property to be made home, and in that debate tenants’ voices should be heard. Taking the UK as a case-study and drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, the paper focus…
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