My room is the kitchen

Lived experience of home-making, home-unmaking and emerging housing strategies of disadvantaged urban youth in austerity Ireland

Bibliographic Data

ID3977994
AuthorsSander Van Lanen (0000-0002-0877-4508, University of Groningen, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume23
Issue4
Pages598-619
Publication date2022-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2020.1783350
OpenAlexW3035797472
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited69

The current Irish housing crisis shows that the 2008 financial crash lingers on in everyday lives and spaces. As especially poorer populations became increasingly excluded from affordable housing under austerity, it is increasingly felt as a ‘personal crisis’. This paper explores the impacts of austerity on home-(un)making to reveal home as a place where austerity becomes ‘lived’ and ‘felt’. Building on interviews with young people aged 18 to 25 in Cork and Dublin, it focusses on a group eager but unable to leave their parental home. Their experiences illustrate the immediate home-unmaking of austerity and the role of past memories and anticipated futures in home-unmaking under austerity. As future expectations and home-making strategies are adjusted to the austerity context, these reconfigure the facets and spheres through which crisis and austerity are experienced. The becoming-everyday of the financial crisis affects the places and spaces of everyday life, creating an all-encompassing ‘slow crisis’ that alters domestic routines and materialities, creates new forms of living together, and presents new strategies for housing and home-making. Housing and home are critical spheres through which austerity and recession become embedded in the everyday lives of disadvantaged urban youth and shape contemporary life courses in the city-after-austerity

Austerity · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Everyday life · Financial crisis · Irish · Political science · Politics · Recession · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance

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