Helen Jarvis
Biographic Data
| ID | 159754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Jarvis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarvis |
| SIGNATURE | JARVIS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5039-0228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Community organising in higher education: Activist community-engaged learning in geography
This paper highlights the transformative potential of place-based community organizing as a theory and practice of progressive social change and as a critical approach to the social purpose of community engagement in Higher Education Institutions. The aim is to expose power asymmetries and civic renewal “from below” through a focus on community engaged learning, specifically community organizing on the curriculum for geography undergraduates. The…
Normalising cycling mobilities: An age-friendly approach to cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling is promoted as a form of urban travel with well-established benefits to health, liveability and wellbeing. These benefits are comparatively large for older people, a growing segment in many populations. Yet, support for the normalisation of cycling mobilities for all ages varies considerably. It is usual to contrast low-cycling contexts, such as the UK, with high-cycling areas, typically favouring highest-rate paradigmatic urban centres. …
Does older adults’ use of social care influence their healthcare utilisation? A systematic review of international evidence
Achievements and Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Trials: Reflections from Inside the Tribunal
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion that was held in Melbourne in December 2017. The panel comprised four speakers, each with significant professional experience working at Cambodia’s hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This panel was the first time such key insiders have come together outside of Cambodia and in an academic context to reflect on more than 10 years of the Court’s ope…
Gender, Work, and Employment
The unequal distribution and embodied performance of “work” are intimately bound up with everyday sites and activities of production, consumption, and domestic social reproduction. It is important to differentiate between work and employment and to qualify these terms with the concept of gender. This is because the prevalent notion of work as employment overlooks a wide variety of unpaid work without which any society could not reproduce its work…
Sharing, togetherness and intentional degrowth
This article proposes a social phenomenology of intentional sharing and togetherness from a degrowth perspective: extending human relations instead of market relations; deepening democracy; defending ecosystems; and realizing a more equal global distribution of wealth. Social phenomenology looks beyond individual mutual exchange to the rich but fragile social construction of collectively negotiated ethical purpose. Intentional communities of coho…
Towards a deeper understanding of the social architecture of co-housing: Evidence from the UK, USA and Australia
This article draws attention to the micro-social practices that self-organising resident groups engage in over the years that it takes to build a co-housing community. This ‘social architecture’ is what distinguishes co-housing from superficially similar shared-space neighbourhoods. Co-housing developments are attracting renewed attention in Anglophone neo-liberal economies against a backdrop of crisis in conventional housing. Discussion draws on…
Community-led Housing and 'Slow' Opposition to Corporate Development: Citizen Participation as Common Ground
Coinciding with the ideological agenda of 'new localism' in welfare and planning policy is popular re-engagement with a convivial scale of participation in civil society. This is evident in a growing number and variety of community-led housing (CLH) groups and projects. It is also evident in 'slow' social movements, such as Cittaslow, that emphasise 'quality of life' and 'sustainability'. Paradoxically, while home and community are essential to a…
Powerful remains: The continuing presence of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime in today's Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge forbade the conduct of any funeral rites at the time of the death of the estimated two million people who perished during their rule (1975-79). Since then, however, memorials have been erected and commemorative ceremonies performed, both public and private, especially at former execution sites, known widely as the killing fields. The physical remains themselves, as well as images of skulls and the haunting photographs of prisoners…
Justice for the deceased: Victims' participation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The participation of victims of mass crimes is being taken to new levels in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as it brings criminal prosecution for serious crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979). In addition to being called as witnesses to the crimes being charged, the ECCC has provided the opportunity for some 4,000 victims to play a direct role as Civil Parties. Civil Party status in a c…
Against the ‘tyranny’ of single-family dwelling: Insights from Christiania at 40
Ownership of a single-family dwelling remains the dominant aspiration in market-led economies. In a hyper-privatised landscape, it is widely assumed that people will not share housing except in extraordinary circumstances. There is nevertheless a long and rich history of countercultural groups who imagine and practise alternative forms of shared housekeeping and collaborative dwelling. This article draws on first-hand observations of daily life f…
Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements: A Counterpoint to Neo-traditional New Urbanism
This paper examines the relationship between a desire to create novel living arrangements and yearning for a ‘better’ past. It is argued that a critical engagement with nostalgia can be used to open up issues of historical persistence and ambiguity. The paper draws on exploratory analysis carried out on examples of three emerging forms of residential space (the new urbanism, home zones and cohousing). The paper seeks to identify the contradiction…
Multiple Scales of Time-Space and Lifecourse
Saving Space, Sharing Time: Integrated Infrastructures of Daily Life in Cohousing
This paper explores the concept of collective housing, notably the North American model of purpose-built cohousing, to understand better the functions of space and time at the neglected scale of collective (colocated) interhousehold collaboration. The defining features of this form of intentional community typically include the clustering of smaller-than-average private residences to maximise shared open spaces for social interaction; common faci…
Cities and Gender
Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. Cities and Gender is a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered …
Disparate routes through support: Negotiating the sites, stages and support of informal dementia care
Commentary: Gender Interventions in an Age of Disengagement
This symposium reminds us (because we do need reminding) that the classroom, staff room, field trip and conference all function as critical sites within which gender relations are performed and rep
School choice from a household resource perspective: Preliminary findings from a north of England case study
This paper seeks to widen the conceptual lens of school choice debate and analysis to account for multiple, intersecting economies, cultures, and infrastructures of daily life. Preliminary findings are presented in the case of primary school enrolment in the north of England city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The national context is one in which public service delivery has been influenced by the language of ‘choice’, notably a parent's ‘right to choose…
Doing Deals on the House’ in a ‘Post-welfare’ Society: Evidence of Micro-Market Practices from Britain and the USA
This paper critically examines an observed shift towards a ‘post-welfare’ society, in which the home-as-investment is replacing by stealth the former protection of more comprehensive welfare state provision. Comparing Britain with the USA, the paper draws on biographies and resource inventories for a sample of 100 working families from five high-cost cities (London, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland). Micro-market practices from this…
Home Truths about Care-less Competitiveness
The literature on city-regionalism can be criticized for neglecting the mundane ways that cities and regions are socially reproduced (and contested) through processes of household decision-making and routine coordination. Moreover, dominant debates on macro-scale governance and economic competitiveness rarely question the way strategic city-regional partnerships equate notions of 'liveability' with marketability. However 'smart', these initiative…
Work/Life City Limits: Comparative Household Perspectives
This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives
Bringing it all back home: The extensification and ‘overflowing’ of work
Moving to London Time: Household co-ordination and the infrastructure of everyday life
This article calls for cross-disciplinary scrutiny of the costs of time squeeze - beyond current preoccupation with time allocation and the organization of employment. Discussion turns to an integrated, materially embedded infrastructure of everyday life, drawing on vignettes from in-depth biographies with London working families to put the time-squeeze into material context. Reference is made to generic decision 'dilemmas' commonly experienced a…
Getting Away with Genocide: Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
This book covers the history of Cambodia since 1979 and the various attempts by the US and China to stop the Cambodian people from bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. After Vietnam ousted the hated Khmer Rouge regime, much of the evidence needed for a full-scale tribunal became available. In 1979 the US and UK governments, rather than working for human rights justice and setting up a special tribunal, opted instead to back the Khmer Rouge at the…
Dispelling the Myth that Preference makes Practice in Residential Location and Transport Behaviour
This paper critically examines the widely held belief that social costs of growth, such as congestion, pollution and sprawl, can be stemmed by compact, mixed-use, design solutions. It is argued instead that when considering the future of cities, we have to actively engage in debates concerning the future of work and changes in the structure and composition of households. Discussion draws on household level research conducted in three West Coast U…
The Tangled Webs We Weave: Household Strategies to Co-Ordinate Home and Work
The connections between home and work are manifest in tensions which exist between individual employment mobility and the social and spatial situatedness of the household micro-economy. This nexus is a significant dimension of a growing number of dual earning households. At a fundamental level, the co-ordination of home and work hinges on opportunities and constraints pertaining to residential location and mobility and the way this issue is negot…
Moving to London Time: Household co-ordination and the infrastructure of everyday life
This article calls for cross-disciplinary scrutiny of the costs of time squeeze - beyond current preoccupation with time allocation and the organization of employment. Discussion turns to an integrated, materially embedded infrastructure of everyday life, drawing on vignettes from in-depth biographies with London working families to put the time-squeeze into material context. Reference is made to generic decision 'dilemmas' commonly experienced a…
Bringing it all back home: The extensification and ‘overflowing’ of work
Saving Space, Sharing Time: Integrated Infrastructures of Daily Life in Cohousing
This paper explores the concept of collective housing, notably the North American model of purpose-built cohousing, to understand better the functions of space and time at the neglected scale of collective (colocated) interhousehold collaboration. The defining features of this form of intentional community typically include the clustering of smaller-than-average private residences to maximise shared open spaces for social interaction; common faci…
Sharing, togetherness and intentional degrowth
This article proposes a social phenomenology of intentional sharing and togetherness from a degrowth perspective: extending human relations instead of market relations; deepening democracy; defending ecosystems; and realizing a more equal global distribution of wealth. Social phenomenology looks beyond individual mutual exchange to the rich but fragile social construction of collectively negotiated ethical purpose. Intentional communities of coho…
Housing, Labour Markets and Household Structure: Questioning the Role of Secondary Data Analysis in Sustaining the Polarization
JARVIS H. (1997) Housing, labour markets and household structure: questioning the role of secondary data analysis in sustaining the polarization debate, Reg. Studies 31, 521‐531. This paper presents a critique of the polarization thesis as it is popularly conceived in Britain. The apparent phenomenon of an increasing divergence of the population into extremes of multi-earner and no-earner households is typically demonstrated using secondary data …
Against the ‘tyranny’ of single-family dwelling: Insights from Christiania at 40
Ownership of a single-family dwelling remains the dominant aspiration in market-led economies. In a hyper-privatised landscape, it is widely assumed that people will not share housing except in extraordinary circumstances. There is nevertheless a long and rich history of countercultural groups who imagine and practise alternative forms of shared housekeeping and collaborative dwelling. This article draws on first-hand observations of daily life f…
Home Truths about Care-less Competitiveness
The literature on city-regionalism can be criticized for neglecting the mundane ways that cities and regions are socially reproduced (and contested) through processes of household decision-making and routine coordination. Moreover, dominant debates on macro-scale governance and economic competitiveness rarely question the way strategic city-regional partnerships equate notions of 'liveability' with marketability. However 'smart', these initiative…
Housing Mobility as a Function of Household Structure: Towards a Deeper Explanation of Housing-related Disadvantage
This paper considers the nature and extent of housing mobility for a specific population of 'nuclear family' owner occupiers. The aim is to explore what is a frequently overlooked dimension of housing-related disadvantage.It is suggested that the concept of disadvantage would be rendered more meaningful if it were extended to take account of differential opportunities and constraints within as well as between a variety of household employment str…
Identifying the Relative Mobility Prospects of a Variety of Household Employment Structures, 1981-1991
The author presents evidence of a relationship between household employment structure and relative rates of mobility. She draws on Census of Population data for 1981 and 1991 from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study and cross-sectional Sample of Anonymised Records microdata for 1991. These data are used to demonstrate the shifts in household employment composition, by region, for a subpopulation of 'nuclear family' households. T…
Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements: A Counterpoint to Neo-traditional New Urbanism
This paper examines the relationship between a desire to create novel living arrangements and yearning for a ‘better’ past. It is argued that a critical engagement with nostalgia can be used to open up issues of historical persistence and ambiguity. The paper draws on exploratory analysis carried out on examples of three emerging forms of residential space (the new urbanism, home zones and cohousing). The paper seeks to identify the contradiction…
Multiple Scales of Time-Space and Lifecourse
Disparate routes through support: Negotiating the sites, stages and support of informal dementia care
Doing Deals on the House’ in a ‘Post-welfare’ Society: Evidence of Micro-Market Practices from Britain and the USA
This paper critically examines an observed shift towards a ‘post-welfare’ society, in which the home-as-investment is replacing by stealth the former protection of more comprehensive welfare state provision. Comparing Britain with the USA, the paper draws on biographies and resource inventories for a sample of 100 working families from five high-cost cities (London, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland). Micro-market practices from this…
Dispelling the Myth that Preference makes Practice in Residential Location and Transport Behaviour
This paper critically examines the widely held belief that social costs of growth, such as congestion, pollution and sprawl, can be stemmed by compact, mixed-use, design solutions. It is argued instead that when considering the future of cities, we have to actively engage in debates concerning the future of work and changes in the structure and composition of households. Discussion draws on household level research conducted in three West Coast U…
Community-led Housing and 'Slow' Opposition to Corporate Development: Citizen Participation as Common Ground
Coinciding with the ideological agenda of 'new localism' in welfare and planning policy is popular re-engagement with a convivial scale of participation in civil society. This is evident in a growing number and variety of community-led housing (CLH) groups and projects. It is also evident in 'slow' social movements, such as Cittaslow, that emphasise 'quality of life' and 'sustainability'. Paradoxically, while home and community are essential to a…
Community organising in higher education: Activist community-engaged learning in geography
This paper highlights the transformative potential of place-based community organizing as a theory and practice of progressive social change and as a critical approach to the social purpose of community engagement in Higher Education Institutions. The aim is to expose power asymmetries and civic renewal “from below” through a focus on community engaged learning, specifically community organizing on the curriculum for geography undergraduates. The…
Achievements and Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Trials: Reflections from Inside the Tribunal
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion that was held in Melbourne in December 2017. The panel comprised four speakers, each with significant professional experience working at Cambodia’s hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This panel was the first time such key insiders have come together outside of Cambodia and in an academic context to reflect on more than 10 years of the Court’s ope…
Powerful remains: The continuing presence of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime in today's Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge forbade the conduct of any funeral rites at the time of the death of the estimated two million people who perished during their rule (1975-79). Since then, however, memorials have been erected and commemorative ceremonies performed, both public and private, especially at former execution sites, known widely as the killing fields. The physical remains themselves, as well as images of skulls and the haunting photographs of prisoners…
Commentary: Gender Interventions in an Age of Disengagement
This symposium reminds us (because we do need reminding) that the classroom, staff room, field trip and conference all function as critical sites within which gender relations are performed and rep
Lunch is for wimps’: What drives parents to work long hours in ‘successful’ British and US cities
This paper reflects on the impact of long working hours on home–work–family reconciliation from a household perspective. It focuses on discrete interactions between long working hours for households with two parents engaged in paid employment, raising awareness of the integrated nature of work–life balance. Attention is paid to the ‘strong economy paradox’ confronting dual earning households in ‘successful’ cities. Evidence is presented to sugges…
Normalising cycling mobilities: An age-friendly approach to cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling is promoted as a form of urban travel with well-established benefits to health, liveability and wellbeing. These benefits are comparatively large for older people, a growing segment in many populations. Yet, support for the normalisation of cycling mobilities for all ages varies considerably. It is usual to contrast low-cycling contexts, such as the UK, with high-cycling areas, typically favouring highest-rate paradigmatic urban centres. …
Justice for the deceased: Victims' participation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The participation of victims of mass crimes is being taken to new levels in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as it brings criminal prosecution for serious crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979). In addition to being called as witnesses to the crimes being charged, the ECCC has provided the opportunity for some 4,000 victims to play a direct role as Civil Parties. Civil Party status in a c…
School choice from a household resource perspective: Preliminary findings from a north of England case study
This paper seeks to widen the conceptual lens of school choice debate and analysis to account for multiple, intersecting economies, cultures, and infrastructures of daily life. Preliminary findings are presented in the case of primary school enrolment in the north of England city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The national context is one in which public service delivery has been influenced by the language of ‘choice’, notably a parent's ‘right to choose…
Tan Malaka: Revolutionary or renegade
The figure of Tan Malaka haunts the margins of the history of the Left in Indonesia. Active in the Indonesian Communist party (PKI) in its early days and for a time Comintern representative in Southeast Asia, Tan Malaka later split with the party. He re-emerged to lead the militant wing of the Indonesian revolution until his assassination in 1949. Many aspects of his career, however, are still obscure, and this paper seeks to describe the long re…
War and Humanity: Notes on Personal Experience
War is a strange element in the civilization of modern man.In this day and age, modern men, from the time they are small, are taught to cultivate love for their fellow human beings.And yet war has never been eliminated from history, including the history of modern men, for war seems to be a necessary evil.In the face of war, where people kill one another, differ ent men experience different feelings: some feel exalted, others feel afraid.And one …
Tan Malaka: Revolutionary or renegade
The figure of Tan Malaka haunts the margins of the history of the Left in Indonesia. Active in the Indonesian Communist party (PKI) in its early days and for a time Comintern representative in Southeast Asia, Tan Malaka later split with the party. He re-emerged to lead the militant wing of the Indonesian revolution until his assassination in 1949. Many aspects of his career, however, are still obscure, and this paper seeks to describe the long re…
From Jail to Jail: Three Volumes
Housing, Labour Markets and Household Structure: Questioning the Role of Secondary Data Analysis in Sustaining the Polarization
JARVIS H. (1997) Housing, labour markets and household structure: questioning the role of secondary data analysis in sustaining the polarization debate, Reg. Studies 31, 521‐531. This paper presents a critique of the polarization thesis as it is popularly conceived in Britain. The apparent phenomenon of an increasing divergence of the population into extremes of multi-earner and no-earner households is typically demonstrated using secondary data …
Housing Mobility as a Function of Household Structure: Towards a Deeper Explanation of Housing-related Disadvantage
This paper considers the nature and extent of housing mobility for a specific population of 'nuclear family' owner occupiers. The aim is to explore what is a frequently overlooked dimension of housing-related disadvantage.It is suggested that the concept of disadvantage would be rendered more meaningful if it were extended to take account of differential opportunities and constraints within as well as between a variety of household employment str…
Identifying the Relative Mobility Prospects of a Variety of Household Employment Structures, 1981-1991
The author presents evidence of a relationship between household employment structure and relative rates of mobility. She draws on Census of Population data for 1981 and 1991 from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study and cross-sectional Sample of Anonymised Records microdata for 1991. These data are used to demonstrate the shifts in household employment composition, by region, for a subpopulation of 'nuclear family' households. T…
The Tangled Webs We Weave: Household Strategies to Co-Ordinate Home and Work
The connections between home and work are manifest in tensions which exist between individual employment mobility and the social and spatial situatedness of the household micro-economy. This nexus is a significant dimension of a growing number of dual earning households. At a fundamental level, the co-ordination of home and work hinges on opportunities and constraints pertaining to residential location and mobility and the way this issue is negot…
The Secret Life of Cities: Social reproduction of everyday life
1. Social Polarisation, Fragmentation and the City 2. Re-constructing an Institutional Approach to the City 3. Co-ordinating Everyday Life and Institutional Structures in the Cities (the Case of London) 4. Through the Household Looking Glass 5. Mobility and the Coordination of Family Life 6. Social Sustainability and Cities 7. Conclusion
Lunch is for wimps’: What drives parents to work long hours in ‘successful’ British and US cities
This paper reflects on the impact of long working hours on home–work–family reconciliation from a household perspective. It focuses on discrete interactions between long working hours for households with two parents engaged in paid employment, raising awareness of the integrated nature of work–life balance. Attention is paid to the ‘strong economy paradox’ confronting dual earning households in ‘successful’ cities. Evidence is presented to sugges…
Dispelling the Myth that Preference makes Practice in Residential Location and Transport Behaviour
This paper critically examines the widely held belief that social costs of growth, such as congestion, pollution and sprawl, can be stemmed by compact, mixed-use, design solutions. It is argued instead that when considering the future of cities, we have to actively engage in debates concerning the future of work and changes in the structure and composition of households. Discussion draws on household level research conducted in three West Coast U…
Getting Away with Genocide: Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
This book covers the history of Cambodia since 1979 and the various attempts by the US and China to stop the Cambodian people from bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. After Vietnam ousted the hated Khmer Rouge regime, much of the evidence needed for a full-scale tribunal became available. In 1979 the US and UK governments, rather than working for human rights justice and setting up a special tribunal, opted instead to back the Khmer Rouge at the…
Work/Life City Limits: Comparative Household Perspectives
This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives
Bringing it all back home: The extensification and ‘overflowing’ of work
Moving to London Time: Household co-ordination and the infrastructure of everyday life
This article calls for cross-disciplinary scrutiny of the costs of time squeeze - beyond current preoccupation with time allocation and the organization of employment. Discussion turns to an integrated, materially embedded infrastructure of everyday life, drawing on vignettes from in-depth biographies with London working families to put the time-squeeze into material context. Reference is made to generic decision 'dilemmas' commonly experienced a…
Home Truths about Care-less Competitiveness
The literature on city-regionalism can be criticized for neglecting the mundane ways that cities and regions are socially reproduced (and contested) through processes of household decision-making and routine coordination. Moreover, dominant debates on macro-scale governance and economic competitiveness rarely question the way strategic city-regional partnerships equate notions of 'liveability' with marketability. However 'smart', these initiative…
School choice from a household resource perspective: Preliminary findings from a north of England case study
This paper seeks to widen the conceptual lens of school choice debate and analysis to account for multiple, intersecting economies, cultures, and infrastructures of daily life. Preliminary findings are presented in the case of primary school enrolment in the north of England city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The national context is one in which public service delivery has been influenced by the language of ‘choice’, notably a parent's ‘right to choose…
Doing Deals on the House’ in a ‘Post-welfare’ Society: Evidence of Micro-Market Practices from Britain and the USA
This paper critically examines an observed shift towards a ‘post-welfare’ society, in which the home-as-investment is replacing by stealth the former protection of more comprehensive welfare state provision. Comparing Britain with the USA, the paper draws on biographies and resource inventories for a sample of 100 working families from five high-cost cities (London, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland). Micro-market practices from this…
Cities and Gender
Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. Cities and Gender is a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered …
Disparate routes through support: Negotiating the sites, stages and support of informal dementia care
Commentary: Gender Interventions in an Age of Disengagement
This symposium reminds us (because we do need reminding) that the classroom, staff room, field trip and conference all function as critical sites within which gender relations are performed and rep
Multiple Scales of Time-Space and Lifecourse
Saving Space, Sharing Time: Integrated Infrastructures of Daily Life in Cohousing
This paper explores the concept of collective housing, notably the North American model of purpose-built cohousing, to understand better the functions of space and time at the neglected scale of collective (colocated) interhousehold collaboration. The defining features of this form of intentional community typically include the clustering of smaller-than-average private residences to maximise shared open spaces for social interaction; common faci…
Against the ‘tyranny’ of single-family dwelling: Insights from Christiania at 40
Ownership of a single-family dwelling remains the dominant aspiration in market-led economies. In a hyper-privatised landscape, it is widely assumed that people will not share housing except in extraordinary circumstances. There is nevertheless a long and rich history of countercultural groups who imagine and practise alternative forms of shared housekeeping and collaborative dwelling. This article draws on first-hand observations of daily life f…
Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements: A Counterpoint to Neo-traditional New Urbanism
This paper examines the relationship between a desire to create novel living arrangements and yearning for a ‘better’ past. It is argued that a critical engagement with nostalgia can be used to open up issues of historical persistence and ambiguity. The paper draws on exploratory analysis carried out on examples of three emerging forms of residential space (the new urbanism, home zones and cohousing). The paper seeks to identify the contradiction…
Justice for the deceased: Victims' participation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The participation of victims of mass crimes is being taken to new levels in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as it brings criminal prosecution for serious crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979). In addition to being called as witnesses to the crimes being charged, the ECCC has provided the opportunity for some 4,000 victims to play a direct role as Civil Parties. Civil Party status in a c…
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (19 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (6 works)