A geography of repoliticisation

Popularising alternative housing models in Oslo

Bibliographic Data

ID5720744
AuthorsKristin Kjærås (0000-0001-8714-7125, University of Bergen, corresponding author), Håvard Haarstad (0000-0002-2791-9282, University of Bergen)
Year2022
Volume94
Pages102577
Publication date2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0962-6298 • E-ISSN: 1873-5096
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102577
OpenAlexW4200602895
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited57

The question of the political has gained renewed relevance in recent years. New movements are challenging what has been called ‘the post-political consensus’ and have facilitated the repoliticisation of a wide range of social, political and cultural phenomena—both on the left and the right. One task for geographers is to understand this repoliticisation spatially. The housing sector is a prime example of how such a repoliticisation occurs. With an emerging global urban housing affordability crisis, housing is becoming an important arena for engaging in emancipatory democratic politics. In this paper, we use Oslo as a case to analyse how housing, which has long been governed through liberal consensus, is being repoliticised. We investigate Oslo's agenda of establishing a ‘third housing sector’ beyond the privatised model, and its role in popularising alternative models in housing. We focus on the mobilisation and rearticulation of the genealogy of failure of housing in Oslo and the alternative housing solutions brought together in the city. Discussing the emerging geographical referencescape of housing as a distinctly spatial process of politicisation we show how arguments and positions gain legitimacy by situating references to other situations and places in a multiplicity of local and foreign arenas

Civil society · Democracy · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Urban Planning and Governance

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