Sharing and caring

Housing in Times of Precarity

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ID3977654
AuthorsKatrina Raynor (0000-0002-6926-0025, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Hélène Frichot (0000-0002-1755-5075, The University of Melbourne)
Year2023
Volume24
Issue10
Pages1863-1882
Publication date2023-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2022.2113983
OpenAlexW4292836299
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited38

This paper explores two key themes that have enjoyed increasing attention in geography research in the last twenty years: geographies of care and experiences of precarity. It focuses on the perspectives of residents living in share houses during a strict COVID-19 lockdown in the city of Melbourne, Australia, drawing on 20 interviews conducted in mid-2020. In so doing, it contributes to understandings of care practices in 'non-traditional' households, providing a glimpse into the spectrum of care-full to care-less relations enacted in households responding to deep uncertainty and shifting connections to home brought on by a global pandemic. Within the day-to-day actions of occupants we highlight the networks of small acts of care-giving and resource sharing. We illuminate the spatial, emotional and relational micro-geographies of share houses to identify how precarity is negotiated amongst co-residents and draw attention to the implications of care-less policies and real estate practices. Our research answers the call for a greater emphasis on embodied home-making practices among group households by paying attention to the contingent relationships of care that they house

Accommodation · Care work · Economic growth · Economics · Embodied cognition · Estate · Political science · Precarity · Public relations · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology

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