Editorial:
Interrogating structures, struggles and subjectivities of rent
Edited by Camila Cociña, Catharina Thörn, Jasmine S. Palmer, Mara Ferreri and Melissa García-Lamarca
CURRENT ISSUE
Issue 1.2 // September 2019
Interrogating Rent: Structures, Struggles and Subjectivities
In this issue of the Radical Housing Journal we have opened a translocal conversation to interrogate the notion of ‘rent’ in various contexts. The different contributions collectively serve to unpack both traditional and contemporary structures enabling multiple forms of rentiership, as well as strategies of resistance towards securing dignified housing. We have strived to encourage an intersectional approach to experiences, subjectivities and processes of politicization, exploring the ways in which different groups and geographies are facing housing vulnerability through rent relations, particularly experienced by growing urban communities, transitional dwellers and groups left behind by contemporary housing markets.
EDITORIAL
THE LONG READ
The political economy of the ‘residential rent relation’:
Antagonism and tenant organising in the Irish rental sector
Michael Byrne
Permanent transitoriness and housing policies:
Inside São Paulo’s low-income private rental market
Felipe Villela de Miranda, Raquel Rolnik, Renato Abramowicz Santos and Regina Dulce Lins
Negotiation, mediation and subjectivities:
How migrant renters experience informal rentals in Gurgaon’s urban villages
Mukta Naik
Resisting the rentier city:
Grassroots housing activism and renter subjectivity in post-crisis London
Matt Wilde
RETROSPECTIVES
Rent-striking the REIT:
Reflections on tenant organizing against financialized rental housing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Emily Power and Bjarke Skærlund Risager
The fight of housing cooperatives against gentrification in the Historic Centre of San Salvador
Natalia Quiñónez
Being civil is not enough:
On practices of citizenship of women living in poverty in Israel
Gal Levy and Riki Kohan-Benlulu
Defensive and expansionist struggles for housing justice:
120 years of community rights in New York City
Oksana Mironova
CONVERSATIONS
Tenant and resident militancy for housing justice:
An exchange between Amanda Huron and Neil Gray
Amanda Huron and Neil Gray
On ‘being collective’:
A patchwork conversation with Somsook Boonyabancha on poverty, collective land tenure and Thailand’s Baan Mankong programme
Brenda Perez-Castro in conversation with Somsook Boonyabancha
UPDATES
Abolish rent!
Julian Francis Park
Housing the elderly:
Between crisis and resistance
Carolin Genz
The right to stay put:
Resistance and organizing in the wake of changing housing policies in Sweden
Jennie Gustafsson (with Allt åt alla Malmö), Elof Hellström, Åse Richard and Scott Springfeldt
When European tenants’ unions meet
Jacob Stringer
Returning to the radical analysis of rent
Callum Ward