The Long Read

Peer-reviewed papers covering theoretical and methodological aspects in ways that are able to speak to the core ethos of the journal, which include theoretical experimentation but also an effort to go beyond the remit of academic language and knowledge. We envisage at least two of these contributions per issue, written by academics and non-academics alike.

Informal Modes of Governance:

Negotiating Evictions and Housing Rights in Lisbon, Portugal

Saila-Maria Saaristo // Issue 4.1

‘Batti il 5!’

Grassroots Strategies Against the Administrative Invisibilization of Rome’s Housing Squatters Before and During the Pandemic

Margherita Grazioli // Issue 4.1

Community Land Trusts in Contexts of Informality

Process, Politics, and Challenges of Implementation

Patricia Basile and Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro // Issue 4.1

Continuum of Carcerality

How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness

After Echo Park Lake Research Collective // Issue 4.1

Homelessness in Southern California:

Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity

Deyanira Nevárez Martínez // Issue 3.2

Securing the city, making the city:

Property guardianship and dispersed policing in urban space

Elara Shurety // Issue 3.2

Desiring Space:

The Affective Politics of Intimacy in Shared Rental Accommodation

Faith Taylor // Issue 3.2

Social housing in ruins:

Heritage, identity and the spectral remains of the housing crisis

Zeena Price // Issue 3.2

Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation:

The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation

Juliana Canedo and Luciana Andrade // Issue 3.2

A tale of two cities: the tenants’ strikes of 1907-1908 in Buenos Aires and New York

Exploring the global historical roots of tenants’ organization

May 28, 2021