Quintin Bradley
Biographic Data
| ID | 2113187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quintin Bradley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quintin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradley |
| SIGNATURE | BRADLEY Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3447-2527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability
The concept of affordability in housing policy signalled a critical shift away from the priorities of housing need. This displacement of need by affordability can be understood as an act of economic valuation in which market price becomes the standard against which housing policies are measured. In this article I draw on John Dewey’s neglected theory of value to examine the relation between price and need. I apply this theory to an investigation …
Property, Planning and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply
The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use. For housing to be provided as a human need, land must be recognised as a common right. Property, Planning and Protest is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development. Its innovative materialist approach is grounded in the political economy of land value, and it recognises the conflict between communities and real es…
Artificial Scarcity in Housebuilding and the Impact on Affordability: The Return of Absolute Rent
The slow response of volume housebuilders to changes in demand has been cited as a contributing cause of a global crisis of housing affordability and allegations of land banking have persistently dogged the industry. This article reviews the supply responsiveness of speculative housebuilders in the United Kingdom and Australia through the neglected Marxian analytic category of absolute rent. Absolute rent directs attention to the relationship bet…
The accountancy of marketisation: Fictional markets in housing land supply
This article investigates the performative role of accountancy in embedding market mechanisms in public services. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, it argues that marketisation can be understood as a work of calculative modelling in which the fiction of a self-regulating market is propagated through the concealment of the social and political practices on which it depends. Exploring this thesis in the marketisation of housing land supply, the …
The financialisation of housing land supply in England
The aim of this article is to identify the calculative practices that turn urban development planning into the supply-side of land financialisation. My focus is on the statutory planning of housing supply and the accounting procedures, or market devices, that normalise the practices of land speculation in the earliest stage of the urban development process. I provide an analysis of the accountancy regime used by planning authorities in England to…
The use of direct democracy to decide housing site allocations in English neighbourhoods
The aim of this article is to reclaim the democratic legitimacy of self-selecting and informed publics in citizen engagement in housing development planning. It argues for an approach to public participation in which the issues, and the articulation of conflicting attachments to those issues, are understood as the occasion for democratic politics. The article illustrates this approach in an analysis of the use of direct democracy to decide housin…
Understanding community: Politics, policy and practice
Community is a language used to make statements about how life should be lived, or how society should function. It is a language familiar to housing studies, applied as an analytical framework to i
The Impact of Neighbourhood Planning and Localism on House-building in England
The devolution of governance to communities is an integral aspect of the state strategy of localism but may conflict with a spatial restructuring dedicated to the liberalization of economic growth. In England, community opposition to house-building has been cited as one of the key factors in the decline in new housing supply over the last decade. The policy of neighbourhood planning was introduced there in 2011 to overcome this opposition by devo…
The political identities of neighbourhood planning in England
The collective empowerment imagined in the government rhetoric of localism bears little resemblance to the market model of aggregative democracy that characterizes much of the practice of participation in spatial planning. This paper explores one of the rare statutory strategies to engage collective participation and to mobilize the neighbourhood as an institution of spatial planning. In a study of neighbourhood planning in England, it investigat…
When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing." Housing Studies, 30(7), pp. 1182–1183
Bringing Democracy Back Home: Community Localism and the Domestication of Political Space
Strategies of localism have constituted the community as a metaphor for democracy and empowerment as part of a wider reordering of state institutions and state power. In conflating the smallest scale with increased participation, however, community localism provides a framework through which the power of sociospatial positioning might be made vulnerable to resistance and change. This paper identifies four spatial practices through which marginali…
Putting our mark on things’: The identity work of user participation in public services
New relationships between service users and the welfare state have emerged as a result of governmental strategies of public service reform in which participation has appeared as the cure for a putative welfare dependency. A new public has been invoked in technologies of governance which have conflated responsible citizenship with participation in the marketplace and have aimed to change the behaviour of welfare service users accordingly. This pap…
A ‘Performative’ Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance
The enmeshment of urban movements in networks of collaborative governance has been characterised as a process of co-option in which previously disruptive contentions are absorbed by regimes and reproduced in ways that do not threaten the stability of power relations. Applying a theoretical framework drawn from feminist philosopher Judith Butler this paper directs attention to the development of collective oppositional identities that remain embed…
Proud to be a Tenant: The Construction of Common Cause Among Residents in Social Housing
This paper demonstrates the assemblage of a distinctive body of combative beliefs among social housing tenants in England engaged in formal participation with their landlords. Applying the social movement diagnostic of frame analysis, the paper identifies three ‘collective identity frames’ that signify the construction of common cause among a diverse and fragmented tenant population. These frames celebrate social housing as a public good, promote…
Trouble at the Top: The Construction of a Tenant Identity in the Governance of Social Housing Organizations
The project of citizen governance has transformed the social housing sector in England, where 20,000 tenants now sit as directors on the boards of housing associations, but the entrance of social housing tenants to the boardroom has aroused opposition from the chief executives of housing companies and triggered regulatory intervention from government inspectors. This paper investigates the cause of these tensions through a theoretical framework d…
Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848–2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions
Edward J. Ahearn, Farnham, Ashgate, 2010, 246 pp., £55.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 7546 6882 4 The veteran socialist and author Charlie Yelland kept a street map of Paris pinned to the wall of his council
Capturing the Castle: Tenant Governance in Social Housing Companies
In the contemporary landscape of social housing in Britain, the role of tenants on the governing boards of housing companies continues to be seen as deeply problematic. While tenant directors are recruited to bring a market-like influence to social housing governance, they appear to be approaching their positions as directors in a way that is contrary to the drive towards management efficiency. This paper adopts a social constructionist approach …
Bringing Democracy Back Home: Community Localism and the Domestication of Political Space
Strategies of localism have constituted the community as a metaphor for democracy and empowerment as part of a wider reordering of state institutions and state power. In conflating the smallest scale with increased participation, however, community localism provides a framework through which the power of sociospatial positioning might be made vulnerable to resistance and change. This paper identifies four spatial practices through which marginali…
The financialisation of housing land supply in England
The aim of this article is to identify the calculative practices that turn urban development planning into the supply-side of land financialisation. My focus is on the statutory planning of housing supply and the accounting procedures, or market devices, that normalise the practices of land speculation in the earliest stage of the urban development process. I provide an analysis of the accountancy regime used by planning authorities in England to…
The political identities of neighbourhood planning in England
The collective empowerment imagined in the government rhetoric of localism bears little resemblance to the market model of aggregative democracy that characterizes much of the practice of participation in spatial planning. This paper explores one of the rare statutory strategies to engage collective participation and to mobilize the neighbourhood as an institution of spatial planning. In a study of neighbourhood planning in England, it investigat…
The Impact of Neighbourhood Planning and Localism on House-building in England
The devolution of governance to communities is an integral aspect of the state strategy of localism but may conflict with a spatial restructuring dedicated to the liberalization of economic growth. In England, community opposition to house-building has been cited as one of the key factors in the decline in new housing supply over the last decade. The policy of neighbourhood planning was introduced there in 2011 to overcome this opposition by devo…
Proud to be a Tenant: The Construction of Common Cause Among Residents in Social Housing
This paper demonstrates the assemblage of a distinctive body of combative beliefs among social housing tenants in England engaged in formal participation with their landlords. Applying the social movement diagnostic of frame analysis, the paper identifies three ‘collective identity frames’ that signify the construction of common cause among a diverse and fragmented tenant population. These frames celebrate social housing as a public good, promote…
Capturing the Castle: Tenant Governance in Social Housing Companies
In the contemporary landscape of social housing in Britain, the role of tenants on the governing boards of housing companies continues to be seen as deeply problematic. While tenant directors are recruited to bring a market-like influence to social housing governance, they appear to be approaching their positions as directors in a way that is contrary to the drive towards management efficiency. This paper adopts a social constructionist approach …
The accountancy of marketisation: Fictional markets in housing land supply
This article investigates the performative role of accountancy in embedding market mechanisms in public services. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, it argues that marketisation can be understood as a work of calculative modelling in which the fiction of a self-regulating market is propagated through the concealment of the social and political practices on which it depends. Exploring this thesis in the marketisation of housing land supply, the …
A ‘Performative’ Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance
The enmeshment of urban movements in networks of collaborative governance has been characterised as a process of co-option in which previously disruptive contentions are absorbed by regimes and reproduced in ways that do not threaten the stability of power relations. Applying a theoretical framework drawn from feminist philosopher Judith Butler this paper directs attention to the development of collective oppositional identities that remain embed…
Trouble at the Top: The Construction of a Tenant Identity in the Governance of Social Housing Organizations
The project of citizen governance has transformed the social housing sector in England, where 20,000 tenants now sit as directors on the boards of housing associations, but the entrance of social housing tenants to the boardroom has aroused opposition from the chief executives of housing companies and triggered regulatory intervention from government inspectors. This paper investigates the cause of these tensions through a theoretical framework d…
Artificial Scarcity in Housebuilding and the Impact on Affordability: The Return of Absolute Rent
The slow response of volume housebuilders to changes in demand has been cited as a contributing cause of a global crisis of housing affordability and allegations of land banking have persistently dogged the industry. This article reviews the supply responsiveness of speculative housebuilders in the United Kingdom and Australia through the neglected Marxian analytic category of absolute rent. Absolute rent directs attention to the relationship bet…
Putting our mark on things’: The identity work of user participation in public services
New relationships between service users and the welfare state have emerged as a result of governmental strategies of public service reform in which participation has appeared as the cure for a putative welfare dependency. A new public has been invoked in technologies of governance which have conflated responsible citizenship with participation in the marketplace and have aimed to change the behaviour of welfare service users accordingly. This pap…
Capturing the Castle: Tenant Governance in Social Housing Companies
In the contemporary landscape of social housing in Britain, the role of tenants on the governing boards of housing companies continues to be seen as deeply problematic. While tenant directors are recruited to bring a market-like influence to social housing governance, they appear to be approaching their positions as directors in a way that is contrary to the drive towards management efficiency. This paper adopts a social constructionist approach …
Trouble at the Top: The Construction of a Tenant Identity in the Governance of Social Housing Organizations
The project of citizen governance has transformed the social housing sector in England, where 20,000 tenants now sit as directors on the boards of housing associations, but the entrance of social housing tenants to the boardroom has aroused opposition from the chief executives of housing companies and triggered regulatory intervention from government inspectors. This paper investigates the cause of these tensions through a theoretical framework d…
Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848–2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions
Edward J. Ahearn, Farnham, Ashgate, 2010, 246 pp., £55.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 7546 6882 4 The veteran socialist and author Charlie Yelland kept a street map of Paris pinned to the wall of his council
A ‘Performative’ Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance
The enmeshment of urban movements in networks of collaborative governance has been characterised as a process of co-option in which previously disruptive contentions are absorbed by regimes and reproduced in ways that do not threaten the stability of power relations. Applying a theoretical framework drawn from feminist philosopher Judith Butler this paper directs attention to the development of collective oppositional identities that remain embed…
Proud to be a Tenant: The Construction of Common Cause Among Residents in Social Housing
This paper demonstrates the assemblage of a distinctive body of combative beliefs among social housing tenants in England engaged in formal participation with their landlords. Applying the social movement diagnostic of frame analysis, the paper identifies three ‘collective identity frames’ that signify the construction of common cause among a diverse and fragmented tenant population. These frames celebrate social housing as a public good, promote…
Putting our mark on things’: The identity work of user participation in public services
New relationships between service users and the welfare state have emerged as a result of governmental strategies of public service reform in which participation has appeared as the cure for a putative welfare dependency. A new public has been invoked in technologies of governance which have conflated responsible citizenship with participation in the marketplace and have aimed to change the behaviour of welfare service users accordingly. This pap…
Bringing Democracy Back Home: Community Localism and the Domestication of Political Space
Strategies of localism have constituted the community as a metaphor for democracy and empowerment as part of a wider reordering of state institutions and state power. In conflating the smallest scale with increased participation, however, community localism provides a framework through which the power of sociospatial positioning might be made vulnerable to resistance and change. This paper identifies four spatial practices through which marginali…
The political identities of neighbourhood planning in England
The collective empowerment imagined in the government rhetoric of localism bears little resemblance to the market model of aggregative democracy that characterizes much of the practice of participation in spatial planning. This paper explores one of the rare statutory strategies to engage collective participation and to mobilize the neighbourhood as an institution of spatial planning. In a study of neighbourhood planning in England, it investigat…
When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing." Housing Studies, 30(7), pp. 1182–1183
The Impact of Neighbourhood Planning and Localism on House-building in England
The devolution of governance to communities is an integral aspect of the state strategy of localism but may conflict with a spatial restructuring dedicated to the liberalization of economic growth. In England, community opposition to house-building has been cited as one of the key factors in the decline in new housing supply over the last decade. The policy of neighbourhood planning was introduced there in 2011 to overcome this opposition by devo…
Understanding community: Politics, policy and practice
Community is a language used to make statements about how life should be lived, or how society should function. It is a language familiar to housing studies, applied as an analytical framework to i
The use of direct democracy to decide housing site allocations in English neighbourhoods
The aim of this article is to reclaim the democratic legitimacy of self-selecting and informed publics in citizen engagement in housing development planning. It argues for an approach to public participation in which the issues, and the articulation of conflicting attachments to those issues, are understood as the occasion for democratic politics. The article illustrates this approach in an analysis of the use of direct democracy to decide housin…
The financialisation of housing land supply in England
The aim of this article is to identify the calculative practices that turn urban development planning into the supply-side of land financialisation. My focus is on the statutory planning of housing supply and the accounting procedures, or market devices, that normalise the practices of land speculation in the earliest stage of the urban development process. I provide an analysis of the accountancy regime used by planning authorities in England to…
The accountancy of marketisation: Fictional markets in housing land supply
This article investigates the performative role of accountancy in embedding market mechanisms in public services. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, it argues that marketisation can be understood as a work of calculative modelling in which the fiction of a self-regulating market is propagated through the concealment of the social and political practices on which it depends. Exploring this thesis in the marketisation of housing land supply, the …
Property, Planning and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply
The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use. For housing to be provided as a human need, land must be recognised as a common right. Property, Planning and Protest is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development. Its innovative materialist approach is grounded in the political economy of land value, and it recognises the conflict between communities and real es…
Artificial Scarcity in Housebuilding and the Impact on Affordability: The Return of Absolute Rent
The slow response of volume housebuilders to changes in demand has been cited as a contributing cause of a global crisis of housing affordability and allegations of land banking have persistently dogged the industry. This article reviews the supply responsiveness of speculative housebuilders in the United Kingdom and Australia through the neglected Marxian analytic category of absolute rent. Absolute rent directs attention to the relationship bet…
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability
The concept of affordability in housing policy signalled a critical shift away from the priorities of housing need. This displacement of need by affordability can be understood as an act of economic valuation in which market price becomes the standard against which housing policies are measured. In this article I draw on John Dewey’s neglected theory of value to examine the relation between price and need. I apply this theory to an investigation …
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