Mel Nowicki

Biographic Data

ID166750
NAMEMel Nowicki
GIVEN NAMESMel
FAMILY NAMENowicki
SIGNATURENOWICKI M
AFFILIATIONSOxford Brookes University
ORCID0000-0002-8674-9885
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS147
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX7

  • The Growing Trend of Living Small

    Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki et al.BOOKGrowing Trend of Living Small2023

  • Stigma, Cladding, and Modular Housing

    Open AccessKatherine Brickell, Mel Nowicki et al.ARTICLEHousing Theory and Society2023References: 17

    This paper focuses on how stigma is constructed and deconstructed through linguistic and aesthetic dimensions of “Rapid Build” housing in Dublin, Ireland. Through analyses of in-depth interviews and focus groups with residents and stakeholders, we explore how the nomenclature and brick-clad modular construction of the builds influenced residents’ experiences of stigma. Emphasizing the importance of the symbolic dimensions of housing materialities…

  • Shrinking domesticity

    Open AccessMel Nowicki, Tim D White et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review Magazine2022

  • Interventions in the political geographies of resistance

    Open AccessSarah M Hughes, A Murrey et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2022Cited by: 7References: 31

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  • Is anyone home? Appropriating and re-narrativisating the post-criminalisation squatting scene in England and Wales

    Open AccessMel NowickiARTICLEEnvironment and Planning C…2020Cited by: 3References: 22

    This paper explores the political significance of narratives of home. Using the aftermath of the 2012 criminalisation of squatting in England and Wales as a case study, the paper traces the ways in which the concept of ‘home’ is deployed to both reinforce neoliberal ideals, and is utilised as a tool of resistance by squatters. This paper focuses on the ways in which particular narratives of home are utilised to shape and legitimise housing policy…

  • Door Locks, Wall Stickers, Fireplaces

    Open AccessElla Harris, Katherine Brickell et al.ARTICLEAntipode2020Cited by: 16References: 43

    This paper explores resident experiences of life in PLACE/Ladywell, a “pop‐up” social housing scheme in London providing temporary accommodation for homeless families. Specifically, we consider barriers to, and assertions of, homemaking in this temporary setting through fixtures and fittings—a door lock, wall stickers, and a fireplace. The paper utilises assemblage thinking to understand homemaking within these time‐limited and constrained circum…

  • GET SMALLER”? Emerging geographies of micro‐living

    Open AccessElla Harris, Mel NowickiARTICLEArea2020Cited by: 15References: 21

    Cities across the world are in the grip of an intensifying housing crisis, in which access to affordable, secure, and appropriate housing is increasingly inaccessible for the majority. There is rising pressure on stakeholders to find solutions but, simultaneously, persistent opposition to housing models that contest the neoliberal logics which prioritise housing's financialisation. In this context, many proposed and developed “solutions” have foc…

  • Queering the Interior

    Mel NowickiARTICLESocial & Cultural Geography2020References: 1

    Queering the Interior is an interdisciplinary collection edited by social-cultural geographer Andrew Gorman-Murray and cultural historian Matt Cook. The collection traces the queer home through cul

  • The hotelisation of the housing crisis

    Open AccessMel Nowicki, Katherine Brickell et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2019Cited by: 18References: 23

    At a time of acute housing crisis, hotels are increasingly being deployed to give temporary shelter to homeless families in wealthy cities. This paper explores the socio-political implications of the use of hotels for temporary accommodation, drawing on research conducted in Dublin. Specifically, we argue that the housing of homeless families in hotels exposes how they are made out of place in the city, even in the spaces allocated to house them.…

  • A Britain that everyone is proud to call home? The bedroom tax, political rhetoric and home unmaking in U.K. housing policy

    Mel NowickiARTICLESocial & Cultural Geography2018

    This paper explores the prominence of rhetorics of home in UK politics. Through the analysis of key prime ministerial speeches, I trace the lineage of home in political rhetoric, paying particular attention to the ways in which the imaginary of the homespace has been moralised through tenure type. The paper examines the ways in which both of the country's major political parties have utilised rhetoric that places homeliness and homemaking at the …

  • On-edge in the impasse

    Open AccessElla Harris, Mel Nowicki et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2018Cited by: 26References: 14

  • Cultural Geographies of Precarity

    Open AccessElla Harris, Mel NowickiARTICLECultural Geographies2018Cited by: 33References: 2

    This article introduces a Special Issue on 'cultural geographies of Precarity'. In recent years, the term precarity has become increasingly prevalent in geographical literature. And yet, to date, there remains limited discussion regarding how precarity is being culturally, as well as socially and economically, entrenched. To that end, this Special Issue provides timely perspectives on the cultural geographies of precarity in two key ways. First, …

  • Rethinking Domicide

    Open AccessMel NowickiARTICLEGeography Compass2014Cited by: 29References: 36

    Domicide, the intentional destruction of home, is a concept first conceived by Canadian geographers Porteous and Smith in 2001. In the current global sociopolitical landscape, domicide and its impact is writ large, present in both the Global North and South, and spanning a variety of scales, from mass displacement through the Syrian civil war to controversial UK housing policy. However, it has been under-represented in critical geographies of hom…