Keith Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1377-0069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 424 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Political economy perspectives and their relevance for contemporary housing studies
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of political economy scholarship stressing the class antagonisms that undergird housing systems. Despite differences, these contributions focus on housing as a component of a nation’s economy and the role of political institutions as managers of that system. Our goal is to help assess the value of emerging discussions that focus on the centrality of housing assets to ideas of class and the structuring …
The writings of Colin ward and the legacy of anarchism for housing studies
British anarchist Colin Ward (1922–2010) wrote extensively on housing issues. His work offers insights on governmental power and alternative forms of organisation. Whilst Ward's views have been discussed in social theory his housing analysis has been somewhat overlooked. The article addresses this gap by situating Ward within a post war intellectual milieu as well as housing concerns such as: private property and household autonomy; the role of t…
Housing, Inequality and Sociology: A Comment on Pragmatic Socioeconomics
In this brief article, we reflect on the contribution of Martin Lux and Petr Sunega to the role of sociology in the domain of housing economics. Applauding the attempt at injecting a more sociologically informed housing economics, we draw attention to the continuous need to guard against over-abstraction and to ensure that housing’s role as a major source of material inequality in many societies must be fully recognized
C.W. Mills’ notion of the ‘social milieu’ and its relevance for contemporary society
In Mills’ sociological analysis, a central notion is the ‘social milieu’ which encapsulates ‘the social setting of a person that is directly open to his personal experience’. For Mills, sociology should entail an investigation of the set of relations and practices that are a feature of human experience. Understanding the significance of Mills’ approach, we argue, requires grasping the way the notion of ‘milieu’ or ‘setting’ itself draws upon spat…
You can't eat art! But can arts-based research challenge neighbourhood stigma
We present research findings from an arts-based research (ABR) project that aimed to redress the symbolic effects of negative recognition associated with place-based stigma. Focusing on two prominently stigmatised neighbourhoods in Melbourne and Hobart (Australia), we explain the rationale for the study and how arts-based tactics were used for phenomenological explorations of familiar environments and to generate alternate, faithful and compellin…
Investor Subjectivities in Melbourne’s High Cost Housing Market
The political economy of housing in Australia is in flux; households increasingly engage in the housing market as a way to manage social and financial risks. Addressing a lack of empirical research on household decision-making, we interviewed 40 owners and renter households in Melbourne. Participants understood the role of housing as a financial asset; this was enacted through their adoption of the position of a neoliberal investor subject engage…
Neoliberalism as entrepreneurial governmentality: Contradictions and dissonance within contemporary English housing associations
This paper has two aims: to provide a critical commentary on the value of neoliberalism in explaining contemporary housing policy and to critically examine recent practices that have been shaped by ideas most commonly associated with neoliberalism. It begins by distinguishing different interpretative variants of neoliberalism and some of the criticisms regarding its explanatory capability. Taking the example of housing associations in England, th…
Champions of Change: Shelter NSW, Community Activism and Transforming NSW’s Housing System
Champions of Change: Shelter NSW, Community Activism and Transforming NSW’s Housing System." Housing Studies, 34(2), pp. 382–383
Decentring urban governance: Narratives, resistance and contestation
Over the last decade or so many scholars have become pessimistic about the opportunities to resist the impost of reactionary neoliberal policies. Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance and Contestation provides a more positive account that suggests that despite austerity there are openings for more progressive forms of politics. The book consists of an introduction and eight UK case studies that were all conducted at a time of govern…
The long view: Introduction for Special Edition of Housing Studies
Back in the late 1980s, Norbert Elias (1987, p. 224) expressed concern that the ‘retreat’ of sociologists into the present moment was leading to the ‘impoverishment’ of the discipline. He argued th
Surface and depth
The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights Dallas Rogers, The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Pages 206, ISBN 9781783483327. Paperback: 24.95. Hardback: 80.00
Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice
Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice 2nd Edition, by P.Somerville, Bristol, Policy Press, 2016, 272 pp., 23.99 (paperback), ISBN:9781447316084
The enigma of the bogan and its significance to class in Australia: A socio-historical analysis
This analysis offers a historical perspective to chart the contested discourses that inform understandings of the figure of the 'bogan', suggesting its evocation reflects unresolved tensions and accumulated meanings left by the various reconfigurations of class politics since colonial settlement in Australia. We focus on three key historical periods to show how socio-political formations influence both classed identities and class relations: the …
The Language of Resilience: Ideas and Action in Contemporary Policy-making
It is difficult not to have noticed that in the last decade or so the notion of resilience has been adopted by many practitioners in Anglophone nations as part of a strategy for political engagement. Very often, those who advocate a resilience agenda concede that the insidious effects of globalized forms of capitalism cannot effectively be resisted and therefore it is necessary to accommodate to this reality by adapting and becoming resilient to …
A world of homeowners: American power and the politics of housing aid
Nancy Kwak’s book, based on research conducted for her PhD thesis, considers how successive post-war US administrations sought to extend the American model of homeownership overseas. Kwak provides
The party’s over’: Critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy
The key argument set out in this article is that historical and comparative forms of investigation are necessary if we are to better understand the ambitions and scope of contemporary housing interventions. To demonstrate the veracity of our claim, we have set out an analysis of the UK housing polices enacted in the mid-1970s as a basis for comparison with those pursued 40 years later. The article begins with a critical summary of some of the met…
Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia
Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia provides a critical overview of influential theoretical perspectives and recent empirical material in the fields of migration, race, culture and politics. With a primary focus on Australia, the book explores the complexities surrounding migration; sets out the most appropriate frameworks to understand ethnicity and racism; and assesses the utility of the concepts o…
Policies that Fail – Words that Succeed’: The Politics of Accessible Housing in Australia
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate over the efficacy of voluntary agreements versus regulation, and uses a study of the Livable Housing Design initiative to deliver voluntarily new‐built accessible housing in Australia. We first probe why regulation has become such a significant component of government policy making, and then ask why political campaigns focus on this issue as a strategy for reform. We refer to research by disability act…
The making of the modern British home: The suburban semi and family life between the wars
The making of the modern British home: the suburban semi and family life between the wars." Housing Studies, 31(2), pp. 237–238
Place, space, and capital: The landscapes of Patrick Keiller
Through his three films London, Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins, Patrick Keiller has sought, inter alia, to provide an incisive commentary on the neo-liberal social order and the way that the spaces we inhabit are experienced and represented. Keiller's films draw from a variety of sources including: surrealism; political economy; cinematic theory; and architecture. Yet, although there is a considerable body of commentary on his work, ther…
The ‘Politics’ of Australian Housing: The Role of Lobbyists and Their Influence in Shaping Policy
It is often taken for granted that governments intervene in the housing market to address social need and affordability concerns, but is this conceptualisation sufficient to capture the processes that inform housing policy-making? In this paper, I argue that an appreciation of the roles performed by interest groups and lobbyists is necessary to understand not only how housing policies are determined, but also how they are maintained. The paper be…
Introduction to the Special Edition: ‘The Politics of Housing Policy’
Back in 2013, we invited authors to submit papers for a themed edition of housing studies titled ‘the politics of housing policy’. At the time, our view was that much of the academic scholarship, w
A reverse form of welfarism: Some reflections on Australian housing policy
In this paper I argue that we have been amiss in diagnosing the role played by government, which has exacerbated the housing problems afflicting low‐income households in Australia. However, I argue further we have placed too much faith in the capacity of managerial interventions to ameliorate what are far more deep‐rooted and systemic challenges. It is suggested that researchers need to adopt a more critical account of the conduct of contemporary…
Hurtling down the track: The significance of Australian population debates in an era of anxiety
This article focuses on some of the fantasies underpinning contemporary politics and the way that these 'perform', in effect, to occlude more complex understandings. To develop my argument, I deploy a critical discourse analysis to consider the narratives used by politicians during the 2010 Australian Federal election campaign to galvanise popular support by raising the 'threat' posed by large-scale population growth. I argue that narratives fram…
The Allure of the “Big Society”: Conveying Authority in an Era of Uncertainty
The inception and roll out of the UK Government’s Big Society agenda offers an opportunity to consider the changing modalities of contemporary political engagement. Much of the critical scholarship on the Big Society views it as a rationale to legitimize both a reconfiguration of the welfare state and an austerity programme to reduce government debt. While these interpretations are helpful, they explain only partially the appeal of these agendas …
Discourse and policy change: The significance of language for housing research
The paper reviews a range of epistemological concerns which are pertinent to the study of housing policy. It is divided into four sections: first, a formulation of language as 'expressive behaviour' is put forward to show that language is not simply a medium in which ideas and intentions are communicated, rather it is best understood as dynamic and integrally linked to relations of power and dominance. The second section suggests a methodology wh…
Power, Discursive Space and Institutional Practices in the Construction of Housing Problems
A constructionist approach to the study of social problems and housing policy provides a theoretically informed means of analysing the ways in which housing policy is formulated and implemented. Yet despite a strong commitment by housing researchers to policy relevance, constructionist studies of how specific social problems are generated and deployed have so far made only a limited impact on housing research. The paper addresses this lacuna by f…
Evaluating the Social Constructionist Paradigm in Housing Research
This article considers the contribution of ?social constructionist? research to housing studies. The first part of the paper discusses ?positivist? epistemologies that have provided an implicit foundation for the majority of housing research. It then examines the philosophical suppositions that underpin ?social constructionism?. This is followed by a summary of the major criticisms that can be levelled against the new research agenda, alongside a…
Material Objects, Identity and the Home: Towards a Relational Housing Research Agenda
Although it is understood that the home constitutes one of the ways that individuals articulate a sense of self-identity, housing researchers have largely focussed on the symbolic meaning of home. In our paper, we seek to extend the field of housing studies by exploring the relational effects of the home. Our two key arguments are the following: first, the objects have effects that are independent of our awareness of them, and second, the formati…
Discourses of Social Exclusion: An Analysis of Bringing Britain Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal
This paper provides a discursive analysis of the UK Government's Social Exclusion Unit report Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal (SEU, 1998a). The methodology makes use of the three-fold categorization of discourses of social exclusion developed by Levitas (1998) with reference to contemporary British politics and social policy. This framework is used to interpret the ideological and political significance of…
New Localism, Old Retrenchment: The “Big Society”, Housing Policy and the Politics of Welfare Reform
This article considers the ideology underpinning the 2010 UK Governments welfare reform agenda in order to foreground what we see as the contradictions of localism and its justification in housing policy through the Big Society agenda. The article has three sections. It begins by discussing some of the methodological challenges that arise in interpreting contemporary policy and the value of a historically informed approach to understand the wider…
The ‘Politics’ of Australian Housing: The Role of Lobbyists and Their Influence in Shaping Policy
It is often taken for granted that governments intervene in the housing market to address social need and affordability concerns, but is this conceptualisation sufficient to capture the processes that inform housing policy-making? In this paper, I argue that an appreciation of the roles performed by interest groups and lobbyists is necessary to understand not only how housing policies are determined, but also how they are maintained. The paper be…
A reverse form of welfarism: Some reflections on Australian housing policy
In this paper I argue that we have been amiss in diagnosing the role played by government, which has exacerbated the housing problems afflicting low‐income households in Australia. However, I argue further we have placed too much faith in the capacity of managerial interventions to ameliorate what are far more deep‐rooted and systemic challenges. It is suggested that researchers need to adopt a more critical account of the conduct of contemporary…
Investigating the New Landscapes of Welfare: Housing Policy, Politics and the Emerging Research Agenda
As debates about housing form an increasingly important arena of politicalcontroversy, much has been written about the new fissures that have appeared asgovernments not only struggle to reduce public expenditure deficits but also attempt toaddress problems such as affordability and homelessness. It is widely anticipated that newconflicts will be played out in the private rental market as access to homeownership becomesunrealistic and the supply o…
Public housing and the politics of stigma
This paper considers the problem of stigmatisation towards tenants residing in public housing. It draws on the findings of a research panel investigation set up to explore the opportunities available for activists and campaigners to address stigma and engender a more positive understanding of public housing and its contribution to ameliorating economic disadvantages. The deliberations of the panel highlighted that, even within a forum sympathetic…
The long view: Introduction for Special Edition of Housing Studies
Back in the late 1980s, Norbert Elias (1987, p. 224) expressed concern that the ‘retreat’ of sociologists into the present moment was leading to the ‘impoverishment’ of the discipline. He argued th
Historical Perspectives and Methodologies: Their Relevance for Housing Studies
Though there has been a willingness by housing researchers to embrace new methodologies such as discourse analysis and social constructionist perspectives in their efforts to make sense of contemporary policy developments, there has been, with notable exceptions, only passing references to historical methodologies and their utility for housing research. Very often where historical methods are used these are implicit with little discussion of the …
The party’s over’: Critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy
The key argument set out in this article is that historical and comparative forms of investigation are necessary if we are to better understand the ambitions and scope of contemporary housing interventions. To demonstrate the veracity of our claim, we have set out an analysis of the UK housing polices enacted in the mid-1970s as a basis for comparison with those pursued 40 years later. The article begins with a critical summary of some of the met…
The Post-Social Turn: Challenges for Housing Research
In an editorial entitled ‘Living Room’ for the journal Urban Geography (Vol. 25, 2004) Susan Smith made reference to the ‘tired state of housing studies’. Smith argued that the ‘post-social turn’ in sociology and cultural geography has largely gone unnoticed by housing researchers and because of this, the radical implications of its epistemology have yet to be explicitly addressed. This post-social turn, elsewhere referred to as Science and Techn…
Introduction: Homes, Objects and Things
The authors that feature in this edition, with the exception of Dallas Rogers, presentedtheir papers at a symposium that took place at the University of Tasmania inFebruary 2012 to debate and reflect upon contemporary understandings of themeaning of home, household practices and sustainable housing amongst other topics.Our choice of the terms objects and things as the title for the symposium wasdeliberate; we wished to engage with a style of thin…
Privileged or exploited council tenants? The discursive change in Conservative housing policy from 1972 to 1980
English The process of social construction in which competing and sometimes contradictory definitions contend with one another plays a decisive part in policy making. Justifications for policy intervention often require a narrative identifying villains or victims to delineate creatively a ‘social problem’ that needs to be addressed by appropriate measures. This article shows how contrasting political and media representations of council tenants i…
Performance indicators and social constructivism: Conflict and control in housing management
As practitioners prepare to implement ‘best value’ models in housing management, it is clear that the measurement and evaluation of all aspects of service provision will have significant organizational consequences. This article argues that the use of performance indicators (PIs) reconfigures traditional power structures and mechanisms of control within organizations. Thus although PIs are generally perceived as valuable management instruments, w…
A Critique of the Concept of Social Exclusion and its Utility for Australian Social Housing Policy
The paper reviews the usefulness of the concept of social exclusion for Australian social housing policy. We draw on recent theoretical and empirical research from Europe and the UK to develop a critique of the concept of social exclusion. It is argued that any assessment of social exclusion needs to distinguish between its utility as an academic explanatory concept and its political deployment to justify new forms of policy intervention. Policy …
Introduction to the Special Edition: ‘The Politics of Housing Policy’
Back in 2013, we invited authors to submit papers for a themed edition of housing studies titled ‘the politics of housing policy’. At the time, our view was that much of the academic scholarship, w
Key Themes and Future Prospects: Conclusion to the Special Issue
Waterfront Redevelopment: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policy-making Process within the Chatham Maritime Project
The redevelopment of the former naval dockyards in Chatham is one of the largest regeneration sites in the UK and is widely seen as a high-profile flagship project aimed at encouraging business investment. This paper utilises the Chatham redevelopment project as a basis from which to discuss recent developments in UK policy. It draws upon the methods of critical discourse analysis in order to discuss particular tensions within the project in the …
Neoliberalism as entrepreneurial governmentality: Contradictions and dissonance within contemporary English housing associations
This paper has two aims: to provide a critical commentary on the value of neoliberalism in explaining contemporary housing policy and to critically examine recent practices that have been shaped by ideas most commonly associated with neoliberalism. It begins by distinguishing different interpretative variants of neoliberalism and some of the criticisms regarding its explanatory capability. Taking the example of housing associations in England, th…
Political economy perspectives and their relevance for contemporary housing studies
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of political economy scholarship stressing the class antagonisms that undergird housing systems. Despite differences, these contributions focus on housing as a component of a nation’s economy and the role of political institutions as managers of that system. Our goal is to help assess the value of emerging discussions that focus on the centrality of housing assets to ideas of class and the structuring …
The Politics of Partnerships: A Study of Police and Housing Collaboration to Tackle Anti-Social Behaviour on Australian Public Housing Estates
This paper draws on the findings from a research project on partnership arrangements between the police and housing departments on three Australian public housing estates to tackle problems associated with illicit drug activity and anti-social behaviour (ASB). The analysis focused on the setting up of the partnerships and the interactions that followed from these institutional arrangements. The assumption that informs the paper is that when study…
Discourses about Australian Social Housing, Social Exclusion and Employment: Indications of the Post‐Welfare State
The dynamic between housing policy and wider welfare reform has been an important theme within housing scholarship. As a background this paper considers Jamrozik's contention of a transition in social policy from a welfare state to a post welfare paradigm through exploring the impact of ideological discourses for contemporary Australian social housing policy. Our approach combines an analysis of the discourses of social exclusion in two key housi…
Differences in the Marriage Role Expectations of College Students from Intact and Divorced Families
The differences in marriage role expectations between college students of divorced and intact families were investigated using the Marriage Role Expectation Inventory (MREI). The MREI (Dunn and DeBonis, 1979) measures desires for traditional versus companionship style of marital relationships. It was hypothesized that those participants from divorced families would expect a more companionship oriented marriage role while those from intact familie…
Housing and Social Theory
Discourse and policy change: The significance of language for housing research
The paper reviews a range of epistemological concerns which are pertinent to the study of housing policy. It is divided into four sections: first, a formulation of language as 'expressive behaviour' is put forward to show that language is not simply a medium in which ideas and intentions are communicated, rather it is best understood as dynamic and integrally linked to relations of power and dominance. The second section suggests a methodology wh…
Housing Provision in Developed Economies
Urban renewal and the culture of conservatism: Changing perceptions of the tower block and implications for contemporary renewal initiatives
The article is divided into two parts. In the first part, we examine the emergence of the tower block phenomenon and summarize the cause of its subsequent decline. The issue is important, for, as we argue, tower blocks have been used to discredit not only public housing, but state welfare provision in general. In the second part, we utilize our analysis of developments in social policy in the United Kingdom in the 1990s to generate a critique of …
Key Themes and Future Prospects: Conclusion to the Special Issue
Institutional Housing Practices and Racism: The Brook Estate, Eltham
A1 University of Westminster, UK
Discourses of Social Exclusion: An Analysis of Bringing Britain Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal
This paper provides a discursive analysis of the UK Government's Social Exclusion Unit report Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal (SEU, 1998a). The methodology makes use of the three-fold categorization of discourses of social exclusion developed by Levitas (1998) with reference to contemporary British politics and social policy. This framework is used to interpret the ideological and political significance of…
Evaluating the Social Constructionist Paradigm in Housing Research
This article considers the contribution of ?social constructionist? research to housing studies. The first part of the paper discusses ?positivist? epistemologies that have provided an implicit foundation for the majority of housing research. It then examines the philosophical suppositions that underpin ?social constructionism?. This is followed by a summary of the major criticisms that can be levelled against the new research agenda, alongside a…
Performance indicators and social constructivism: Conflict and control in housing management
As practitioners prepare to implement ‘best value’ models in housing management, it is clear that the measurement and evaluation of all aspects of service provision will have significant organizational consequences. This article argues that the use of performance indicators (PIs) reconfigures traditional power structures and mechanisms of control within organizations. Thus although PIs are generally perceived as valuable management instruments, w…
Historical Perspectives and Methodologies: Their Relevance for Housing Studies
Though there has been a willingness by housing researchers to embrace new methodologies such as discourse analysis and social constructionist perspectives in their efforts to make sense of contemporary policy developments, there has been, with notable exceptions, only passing references to historical methodologies and their utility for housing research. Very often where historical methods are used these are implicit with little discussion of the …
Devolved Budget Making Within Local Authority Housing Departments: Staff Perceptions of Power and Control
The rationale for this article is that limited knowledge of the budgetary process within housing organisations together with the recent changes associated with 'best value' point to a need to better understand the context within which policy decisions are taken. The article investigates the ways in which senior housing and finance officers interpret their work environment, encounter constraints and implement budgets within two metropolitan local …
Useful in Some Approaches but not Others
Subjectivity and the Transformation of Urban Spatial Experience
Philosophical and sociological writers who extol the role of subjectivity and its capacity to transform urban spatial experience have been largely overlooked by housing researchers. As a consequence research remains largely focused on physical and spatial renewal. While physical renewal is important, other experiences - for example the gentrification process in which middle-class households move into run down areas shunned by most inhabitants - s…
Power, Discursive Space and Institutional Practices in the Construction of Housing Problems
A constructionist approach to the study of social problems and housing policy provides a theoretically informed means of analysing the ways in which housing policy is formulated and implemented. Yet despite a strong commitment by housing researchers to policy relevance, constructionist studies of how specific social problems are generated and deployed have so far made only a limited impact on housing research. The paper addresses this lacuna by f…
Privileged or exploited council tenants? The discursive change in Conservative housing policy from 1972 to 1980
English The process of social construction in which competing and sometimes contradictory definitions contend with one another plays a decisive part in policy making. Justifications for policy intervention often require a narrative identifying villains or victims to delineate creatively a ‘social problem’ that needs to be addressed by appropriate measures. This article shows how contrasting political and media representations of council tenants i…
A Critique of the Concept of Social Exclusion and its Utility for Australian Social Housing Policy
The paper reviews the usefulness of the concept of social exclusion for Australian social housing policy. We draw on recent theoretical and empirical research from Europe and the UK to develop a critique of the concept of social exclusion. It is argued that any assessment of social exclusion needs to distinguish between its utility as an academic explanatory concept and its political deployment to justify new forms of policy intervention. Policy …
Waterfront Redevelopment: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policy-making Process within the Chatham Maritime Project
The redevelopment of the former naval dockyards in Chatham is one of the largest regeneration sites in the UK and is widely seen as a high-profile flagship project aimed at encouraging business investment. This paper utilises the Chatham redevelopment project as a basis from which to discuss recent developments in UK policy. It draws upon the methods of critical discourse analysis in order to discuss particular tensions within the project in the …
Discourse Analysis and its Utility for Urban Policy Research
In recent years, discourse analysis has been deployed by academics as a methodology to understand the urban policy implementation process, in particular, the ways in which key actors exercise power. Much of the discourse-based research in urban policy has drawn upon the writings of Norman Fairclough and Michel Foucault and seeks to provide a critical scrutiny of texts and utterances of policy makers and other key actors. The methodological assump…
Territorial Modes of Governance and the Discourses of Community Reaction in the State of Tasmania
Reflecting on neo-liberal and Deleuzian theory, this paper examines how new modes of governance are shaping Australian regions and what kind of resistance is emerging in response to them, in particular to government encouragement of business and commercial appropriation. The first part of the paper discusses recent literature on regional policy-making in the context of neo-liberalism. It is argued that Deleuzian metaphors such as ‘reterritorialis…
Band-aid or Panacea? The Role of Private Rental Support Programs in Addressing Access Problems in the Australian Housing Market
Australia has a significant private rental market with over a quarter of households renting their home from a private landlord. Many of these households are on low incomes and receive assistance from private rental support programs provided by each Australian state and territory. In spite of these large numbers, little is known about the effectiveness of policy initiatives to assist low-income private renters. Limited knowledge of the private ren…
Discourses about Australian Social Housing, Social Exclusion and Employment: Indications of the Post‐Welfare State
The dynamic between housing policy and wider welfare reform has been an important theme within housing scholarship. As a background this paper considers Jamrozik's contention of a transition in social policy from a welfare state to a post welfare paradigm through exploring the impact of ideological discourses for contemporary Australian social housing policy. Our approach combines an analysis of the discourses of social exclusion in two key housi…
The Social Forces and Politics of Housing Research: Reflections from within the Academy
In this paper we draw upon our experiences of the UK and Australian policy environments to make a series of tentative observations about the current state of housing research. We explore the political constraints that confront academic researchers by reflecting on how the changes within academia, styles of policymaking and nature of public engagement/publication affect the relative ability of academics to view themselves as progressive forces con…
Special Issue: Theoretical Concerns in Australian Housing and Urban Research
This special issue of Housing, Theory and Society brings together four papers written \nfor a symposium that took place at the University of Tasmania to discuss the role of \ntheory in contemporary housing and urban research. As joint convenors of the \nsymposium we were conscious of the fact that though there is an emerging \ncommunity of scholars in housing and urban studies in Australia, the opportunities \nfor interaction are limited because …
The Post-Social Turn: Challenges for Housing Research
In an editorial entitled ‘Living Room’ for the journal Urban Geography (Vol. 25, 2004) Susan Smith made reference to the ‘tired state of housing studies’. Smith argued that the ‘post-social turn’ in sociology and cultural geography has largely gone unnoticed by housing researchers and because of this, the radical implications of its epistemology have yet to be explicitly addressed. This post-social turn, elsewhere referred to as Science and Techn…
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