Stuart Hodkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Hodkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodkinson |
| SIGNATURE | HODKINSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7676-5331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 531 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Unpacking the complex role of the state in housing financialization, comparing Athens and Barcelona
Academic discourses on housing financialization view the state as playing a pivotal facilitation role, primarily through establishing institutional arrangements conducive to global financial interests. Drawing on a Poulantzian-inspired reading of capital and the state as a social relation, this paper evidences a more complex and dialectical state-investor nexus in housing financialization, shaped by contingent and path-dependent dynamics. By juxt…
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class
The formation of asset classes is a core feature of financialisation. As investors continually seek novel revenue streams, they develop mechanisms to transform a growing array of goods and services into tradable, income-generating financial assets. Over the last decade, short-term rentals have consolidated as a distinct asset class, facilitated by digital platforms such as Airbnb and supported by property managers who offer investor confidence an…
Re-tracing the rise of institutional investor landlords in London and Milan through the lens of state de-risking
Research on housing financialisation in North America and Europe has explored the growing role of institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds as both funders and owners of residential housing. Several investment waves and different entry points have been identified, from opportunistic acquisitions related to early public housing privatisations in Northern Europe, the predatory grabbing of distressed assets in the Unit…
Desperately seeking public housing
Against neoliberal domicide
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment
Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent anti-slavery commissioner to oversee its implementation. However, drawing on research into forced labour among people seeking asylum in England, this article argues that when considered alongside …
Examining the Effectiveness of Current Information Laws and Implementation Practices for Accountability of Outsourced Public Services
Recent events linked to outsourcing such as the Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 and the collapse of Carillion in 2018 have again highlighted the challenges of maintaining democratic accountability of government expenditure where public services are contracted out to private companies. Although not the only focus of policy debate, pressure is building from both parliamentarians and the Information Regulator to extend UK information laws to th…
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
Socio-legal status and experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of forced labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migr…
DannyDorling2014: All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster. London: PenguinCathyDavis2013: Finance for Housing: An Introduction. Bristol: Policy Press
Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
Precarious Lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
"This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions. Drawing on original evidence generated in fieldwork with ref…
Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming…
Gentrificación como política pública en una ciudad provincial: El caso de la ciudad de Leeds en el Reino Unido
This article analyses gentrifi cation processes in a mid-sized city in Northern England. This case study of Leeds helps us to "provincialize" the study of gentrifi cation by focusing on a city that is not at the center of global capitalism, but rather is a provincial city. Our aim is to capture the specifi cities of gentrifi cation in this city at the same time as contextualizing them in the wider frame of neoliberal urbanism. To do that we focus…
Introduction: Neoliberal housing policy – time for a critical re-appraisal
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive …
The return of class war conservatism? Housing under the UK Coalition Government
The May 2010 election of a Conservative-dominated UK coalition government unleashed an unprecedented austerity drive under the auspices of ‘deficit reduction’ in the wake of the global financial crisis. This article focuses on housing policy to show how the ‘cuts’ are being used as an ideological cover for a far-reaching, market-driven restructuring of social welfare policy that amounts to a return of what Ralph Miliband called ‘class war conserv…
The new urban enclosures
The ongoing crisis of global capitalism has served only to intensify the past four decades of neoliberal restructuring of cities across the world. In this paper I critically reflect on a literary aspect of the neoliberalising city academic discourse that is too often left untheorised or underplayed—the prevalence of contemporary urban enclosure. My aim is twofold: to synthesise theories of old and new enclosure with more familiar understandings o…
Can we really ride the urban tiger of global capitalism
The Private Finance Initiative in English Council Housing Regeneration: A Privatisation too Far
Despite the enormous body of scholarship that has tracked the transformation of social housing from the 'public housing model' of the welfare state era to the 'social housing model' of today, large gaps remain in our understanding of this shift. This paper addresses on one such vacuum—the controversial use of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as part of the Labour Government's Decent Homes programme in England. Focusing on 'council housing' sc…
Housing Regeneration and the Private Finance Initiative in England: Unstitching the Neoliberal Urban Straitjacket
This paper responds to recent debates in human geography about ideal-type versus contingent neoliberalism, or what Gibson-Graham conceptualises as “strong” vs “weak” theory, by offering some reflections from an in-depth study of the private finance initiative (PFI) in England. It first introduces the history and purpose of the PFI as the Labour government's flagship public–private partnership (PPP) approach to public infrastructure modernisation.…
Urban outcasts: A comparative sociology of advanced marginality – By Loïc Wacquant
Autonomy in the city: Reflections on the social centres movement in the UK
This paper is about the emergence of social centres and their role in both the development of autonomous politics and the growing urban resistance movement in the UK to the corporate takeover, enclosure and alienation of everyday life. In European terms, social centres are not new and, as Montagna in this issue demonstrates, have played a particularly important role in the political and cultural world of Italy's autonomist scene. Previously margi…
Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming…
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
The new urban enclosures
The ongoing crisis of global capitalism has served only to intensify the past four decades of neoliberal restructuring of cities across the world. In this paper I critically reflect on a literary aspect of the neoliberalising city academic discourse that is too often left untheorised or underplayed—the prevalence of contemporary urban enclosure. My aim is twofold: to synthesise theories of old and new enclosure with more familiar understandings o…
Autonomy in the city: Reflections on the social centres movement in the UK
This paper is about the emergence of social centres and their role in both the development of autonomous politics and the growing urban resistance movement in the UK to the corporate takeover, enclosure and alienation of everyday life. In European terms, social centres are not new and, as Montagna in this issue demonstrates, have played a particularly important role in the political and cultural world of Italy's autonomist scene. Previously margi…
Introduction: Neoliberal housing policy – time for a critical re-appraisal
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive …
Socio-legal status and experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of forced labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migr…
The return of class war conservatism? Housing under the UK Coalition Government
The May 2010 election of a Conservative-dominated UK coalition government unleashed an unprecedented austerity drive under the auspices of ‘deficit reduction’ in the wake of the global financial crisis. This article focuses on housing policy to show how the ‘cuts’ are being used as an ideological cover for a far-reaching, market-driven restructuring of social welfare policy that amounts to a return of what Ralph Miliband called ‘class war conserv…
Housing Regeneration and the Private Finance Initiative in England: Unstitching the Neoliberal Urban Straitjacket
This paper responds to recent debates in human geography about ideal-type versus contingent neoliberalism, or what Gibson-Graham conceptualises as “strong” vs “weak” theory, by offering some reflections from an in-depth study of the private finance initiative (PFI) in England. It first introduces the history and purpose of the PFI as the Labour government's flagship public–private partnership (PPP) approach to public infrastructure modernisation.…
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment
Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent anti-slavery commissioner to oversee its implementation. However, drawing on research into forced labour among people seeking asylum in England, this article argues that when considered alongside …
The Private Finance Initiative in English Council Housing Regeneration: A Privatisation too Far
Despite the enormous body of scholarship that has tracked the transformation of social housing from the 'public housing model' of the welfare state era to the 'social housing model' of today, large gaps remain in our understanding of this shift. This paper addresses on one such vacuum—the controversial use of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as part of the Labour Government's Decent Homes programme in England. Focusing on 'council housing' sc…
Unpacking the complex role of the state in housing financialization, comparing Athens and Barcelona
Academic discourses on housing financialization view the state as playing a pivotal facilitation role, primarily through establishing institutional arrangements conducive to global financial interests. Drawing on a Poulantzian-inspired reading of capital and the state as a social relation, this paper evidences a more complex and dialectical state-investor nexus in housing financialization, shaped by contingent and path-dependent dynamics. By juxt…
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class
The formation of asset classes is a core feature of financialisation. As investors continually seek novel revenue streams, they develop mechanisms to transform a growing array of goods and services into tradable, income-generating financial assets. Over the last decade, short-term rentals have consolidated as a distinct asset class, facilitated by digital platforms such as Airbnb and supported by property managers who offer investor confidence an…
Against neoliberal domicide
Examining the Effectiveness of Current Information Laws and Implementation Practices for Accountability of Outsourced Public Services
Recent events linked to outsourcing such as the Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 and the collapse of Carillion in 2018 have again highlighted the challenges of maintaining democratic accountability of government expenditure where public services are contracted out to private companies. Although not the only focus of policy debate, pressure is building from both parliamentarians and the Information Regulator to extend UK information laws to th…
Gentrificación como política pública en una ciudad provincial: El caso de la ciudad de Leeds en el Reino Unido
This article analyses gentrifi cation processes in a mid-sized city in Northern England. This case study of Leeds helps us to "provincialize" the study of gentrifi cation by focusing on a city that is not at the center of global capitalism, but rather is a provincial city. Our aim is to capture the specifi cities of gentrifi cation in this city at the same time as contextualizing them in the wider frame of neoliberal urbanism. To do that we focus…
Autonomy in the city: Reflections on the social centres movement in the UK
This paper is about the emergence of social centres and their role in both the development of autonomous politics and the growing urban resistance movement in the UK to the corporate takeover, enclosure and alienation of everyday life. In European terms, social centres are not new and, as Montagna in this issue demonstrates, have played a particularly important role in the political and cultural world of Italy's autonomist scene. Previously margi…
Urban outcasts: A comparative sociology of advanced marginality – By Loïc Wacquant
Can we really ride the urban tiger of global capitalism
The Private Finance Initiative in English Council Housing Regeneration: A Privatisation too Far
Despite the enormous body of scholarship that has tracked the transformation of social housing from the 'public housing model' of the welfare state era to the 'social housing model' of today, large gaps remain in our understanding of this shift. This paper addresses on one such vacuum—the controversial use of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as part of the Labour Government's Decent Homes programme in England. Focusing on 'council housing' sc…
Housing Regeneration and the Private Finance Initiative in England: Unstitching the Neoliberal Urban Straitjacket
This paper responds to recent debates in human geography about ideal-type versus contingent neoliberalism, or what Gibson-Graham conceptualises as “strong” vs “weak” theory, by offering some reflections from an in-depth study of the private finance initiative (PFI) in England. It first introduces the history and purpose of the PFI as the Labour government's flagship public–private partnership (PPP) approach to public infrastructure modernisation.…
The new urban enclosures
The ongoing crisis of global capitalism has served only to intensify the past four decades of neoliberal restructuring of cities across the world. In this paper I critically reflect on a literary aspect of the neoliberalising city academic discourse that is too often left untheorised or underplayed—the prevalence of contemporary urban enclosure. My aim is twofold: to synthesise theories of old and new enclosure with more familiar understandings o…
Introduction: Neoliberal housing policy – time for a critical re-appraisal
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive …
The return of class war conservatism? Housing under the UK Coalition Government
The May 2010 election of a Conservative-dominated UK coalition government unleashed an unprecedented austerity drive under the auspices of ‘deficit reduction’ in the wake of the global financial crisis. This article focuses on housing policy to show how the ‘cuts’ are being used as an ideological cover for a far-reaching, market-driven restructuring of social welfare policy that amounts to a return of what Ralph Miliband called ‘class war conserv…
Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
Precarious Lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
"This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions. Drawing on original evidence generated in fieldwork with ref…
Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming…
Gentrificación como política pública en una ciudad provincial: El caso de la ciudad de Leeds en el Reino Unido
This article analyses gentrifi cation processes in a mid-sized city in Northern England. This case study of Leeds helps us to "provincialize" the study of gentrifi cation by focusing on a city that is not at the center of global capitalism, but rather is a provincial city. Our aim is to capture the specifi cities of gentrifi cation in this city at the same time as contextualizing them in the wider frame of neoliberal urbanism. To do that we focus…
DannyDorling2014: All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster. London: PenguinCathyDavis2013: Finance for Housing: An Introduction. Bristol: Policy Press
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
Socio-legal status and experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of forced labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migr…
Against neoliberal domicide
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment
Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent anti-slavery commissioner to oversee its implementation. However, drawing on research into forced labour among people seeking asylum in England, this article argues that when considered alongside …
Examining the Effectiveness of Current Information Laws and Implementation Practices for Accountability of Outsourced Public Services
Recent events linked to outsourcing such as the Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 and the collapse of Carillion in 2018 have again highlighted the challenges of maintaining democratic accountability of government expenditure where public services are contracted out to private companies. Although not the only focus of policy debate, pressure is building from both parliamentarians and the Information Regulator to extend UK information laws to th…
Desperately seeking public housing
Unpacking the complex role of the state in housing financialization, comparing Athens and Barcelona
Academic discourses on housing financialization view the state as playing a pivotal facilitation role, primarily through establishing institutional arrangements conducive to global financial interests. Drawing on a Poulantzian-inspired reading of capital and the state as a social relation, this paper evidences a more complex and dialectical state-investor nexus in housing financialization, shaped by contingent and path-dependent dynamics. By juxt…
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class
The formation of asset classes is a core feature of financialisation. As investors continually seek novel revenue streams, they develop mechanisms to transform a growing array of goods and services into tradable, income-generating financial assets. Over the last decade, short-term rentals have consolidated as a distinct asset class, facilitated by digital platforms such as Airbnb and supported by property managers who offer investor confidence an…
Re-tracing the rise of institutional investor landlords in London and Milan through the lens of state de-risking
Research on housing financialisation in North America and Europe has explored the growing role of institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds as both funders and owners of residential housing. Several investment waves and different entry points have been identified, from opportunistic acquisitions related to early public housing privatisations in Northern Europe, the predatory grabbing of distressed assets in the Unit…
Political science (16 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)