Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care - (as) - work in collaborative housing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12633875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia (0000-0001-5465-5289, Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, corresponding author), Mara Ferreri (0000-0002-3163-4490), J Hudson (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK), J B Hudson (0009-0000-7063-7371, University of Bristol), Kathleen Scanlon (0000-0001-9957-4853, London School of Economics and Political Science), Karen West (0000-0002-9071-8002, University of Bristol) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 660-678 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Theory and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14036096.2023.2247414 |
| OpenAlex | W4386093990 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article conceptualizes care-(as)-work in collaborative housing and addresses current debates on the potential of cohousing to embody a feminist commons. A focus on purpose-built cohousing projects in the UK enables us to focus on the values present in the initial phases of collective design and on the ongoing negotiations and mediation that take place through social interactions, resident-led self-management, and formal and informal mutual support. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with two communities in England. Our contribution focuses on two aspects of care-(as)-work: how difficult emotions related to cohousing maintenance work are minimized for the good of the common and how such work is differentially embodied. Returning to cohousing’s transformational capacities as a feminist commons, we show that while boundaries of care in commoning are critical to residents, they are inherently blurry, performative and gendered
Aesthetics · Care work · Commons · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Work (physics · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law
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Care and Living in Community
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Implementing a Senior Community Care Model
Housing as community infrastructure
Autoethnography of Affective Patterns of Emotional Attachment to Collaborative Housing (Research) in Times of Crises
Feminist urban futures
Introduction to special issue
Cohousing and the role of intermediaries in later life transitions
Sociology, Housing, and Gender
Queer in a housing crisis
The grand domestic revolution
Governing the Commons
Home
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Commons against and beyond capitalism
Design for Gender Equality
Emotional Geographies
Undoing Gender
Living together privately
Collaborative Housing Research (1990–2017)
Differences between Cohousing and Gated Communities. A Literature Review
Beyond wishful thinking
For Home Un Making
Depletion
From Co-Ops to Community Land Trusts
Beyond Affordability
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Collaborative housing communities through the Covid-19 pandemic
Interdependence, commitment, learning and love
Beyond Tragedy
Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds
Living a Feminist Life
Saving Space, Sharing Time
Spatialising the collective
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |