Editorial:
Valuing housing in the normalised crises: Resistance, fatigue and lexicons of struggle
Camila Cociña, Mara Ferreri, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Melissa García-Lamarca
CURRENT ISSUE
Issue 3.2 // December 2021
Valuing housing in the normalised crises: Resistance, fatigue and lexicons of struggle
In the continuum of intersecting housing crises, the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic are still testing individual and collective capacities to survive displacement, surveillance, precarisation and policing. Issue 3.2 emerges in this context of normalised new and old crises; both from and within the fatigue and normalisation of current ‘exceptional conditions’ and their implications for housing activists and engaged academics, and from the search for places and languages of resistance as sites for transformation.
Cover photo: Huda Abu al-Qian
EDITORIAL
THE LONG READ
Homelessness in Southern California:
Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity
Deyanira Nevárez Martínez
Securing the city, making the city:
Property guardianship and dispersed policing in urban space
Elara Shurety
Desiring Space:
The Affective Politics of Intimacy in Shared Rental Accommodation
Faith Taylor
Social housing in ruins:
Heritage, identity and the spectral remains of the housing crisis
Zeena Price
Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation:
The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation
Juliana Canedo and Luciana Andrade
RETROSPECTIVES
LEXICON CONVERSATIONS
Vecinas ≠ neighbours:
Language politics in the struggle for housing in Barcelona
Carla Rivera Blanco, Melissa García-Lamarca, Mara Ferreri in conversation with members of struggles for housing in Barcelona
Vecinas ≠ neighbours:
La política del lenguaje en la lucha por la vivienda en Barcelona
Carla Rivera Blanco, Melissa García-Lamarca, Mara Ferreri en conversación con integrantes de distintas luchas por la vivienda en Barcelona
Housing for all, understood by few:
Colloquial narratives from Delhi
Swati Janu and Anushka Shahdadpuri, in conversation with Camila Cociña
Latin Elephant:
On language, translations and connections in an urban ethnic migrant movement
Patria Román Velázquez, Natalia Pérez, Santiago Peluffo Soneyra and Sophie Rebecca Wall, in conversation with Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Camila Cociña
UPDATES
Pandemic demolitions:
The unrecognized Bedouin villages in southern Israel and the ongoing housing crisis
Huda Abu Obaid and Elianne Kremer (Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, NCF)
Ciudad Constituyente:
The dispute for the right to habitat beyond the constitutional moment in Chile
Ciudad Constituyente
The politics of Zestimate:
Merging technology and real estate industries
Masha Hupalo