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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 26

#Update 'Crafting Computational Counter-Media: Spatial Story Design of Housing (In)justice and Archival Challenges' by @bretthalperin.bsky.social on the community-based process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's interactive digital story map #Covid19
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Crafting computational counter-media » Radical Housing Journal

This piece is an update on the community-based design process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (AEMP) interactive digital story map documenting housing (in)justice during the Covid-19 pandem...

https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/crafting-computational-counter-media/"

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jun 23

New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Vacancy isn’t just empty space—it’s a money-making machine. In this piece for @radicalhousing.bsky.social, I break down how landlord power, state policy, and Greece’s deep-rooted attachment to family ownership turn vacancy into one of the country’s most profitable ventures.

Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 24

#LongRead "Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy" @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social reinterprets vacancy as a tool for profit, reinforced by state policies, landlord lobbying & #Greece’s entrenched system of possessive #familialism.

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Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy » Radical Housing Journal

This paper reinterprets urban vacancy in Greece not as market failure, but as a calculated tool for profit. Focusing on Thessaloniki, it argues that vacancy is produced, maintained, repurposed, and re...

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 24

#LongRead "Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy" @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social reinterprets vacancy as a tool for profit, reinforced by state policies, landlord lobbying & #Greece’s entrenched system of possessive #familialism.

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Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy » Radical Housing Journal

This paper reinterprets urban vacancy in Greece not as market failure, but as a calculated tool for profit. Focusing on Thessaloniki, it argues that vacancy is produced, maintained, repurposed, and re...

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 23

Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Homes and Hands United" examines the strategic alliance between a graduate-student tenant union & Teaching and Research Assistants at McMaster University, Hamilton #Ontario

#housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing

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Homes and hands united » Radical Housing Journal

This paper examines the strategic alliance between the Tenant Solidarity Working Group (TSWG)—a graduate-student tenant union—and CUPE Local 3906, representing Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Research A...

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 23

Issue 7.1 #LongRead by Luisa Gehriger "Between normalisation, critique and contestation: Why tenants threatened by displacement resist or comply with landlords' plans" draws on a five-years research with tenants facing renovation and demolition in #Basel

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Between normalisation, critique and contestation » Radical Housing Journal

Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with tenants facing mass cancellations due to renovation or demolition in Basel, Switzerland, this paper analyses the relation between landlords’ plans a...

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 20

In Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing", Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey & Shaun French discuss the challenges of organising in, against-and-beyond social housing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns.

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 19

From the #Editorial of issue 7.1

"..at the heart of authoritarianism is a desire for absolute control over people, land and territory—a desire closely tied to questions of property and who has rights to dwell and inhabit in which place."

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Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal

Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jun 19

❤️‍🔥 Issue 7.1 of the @radicalhousing.bsky.social out today! ❤️‍🔥

It's been a pleasure & a privilege to work with the RHJ collective & some very talented authors on producing this rich issue.

Check out some of the articles within, and read our editorial here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/editori...

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 19

Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁

"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz

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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance

Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hello #radicalhousing readers & supporters!

🥁 Next week the RHJ collective will launch its new issue 7.1 bringing together insights & reflections from scholars and activists across the world on #housingprecarity, #tenantsorganizing, land and property #vacancy, & #resistance to #displacement!

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Dec 24

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · May 13

The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · May 13

🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱

We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.

📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Apr 30

The Radical Housing Journal is now on bsky – follow us here @radicalhousing.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.

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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · Feb 19

The giant housing association Clarion Housing Group is trying to victimise those who complain of service failures, but our members are fighting back and won't be intimidated.

#ShacAction

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Social Housing Action CampaignClarion’s Victimisation Culture

SHAC has heard many accounts of victimising by landlords when things go wrong. Typically, this arises when tenants and residents report leaks, damp and mould in their homes and are told that their …

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Feb 13

@kwajo.bsky.social I am a PhD student looking to interview Eastfields, High Path, & Ravensbury residents (past and present) who have experienced damp and mould. Would you consider sharing this poster? Thank you!

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Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · Jan 20

Shocking aerial images of urbicide in Gaza

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Devastation: aerial views of Gaza after ceasefire – in pictures

Months of Israeli bombardment have turned buildings into piles of rubble and ash

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jan 20

Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)

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Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Jan 17

MOULD. It's political.

Important new open access paper by Elara Shurety on housing, mould and toxicity

Elara is a King's College London PhD candidate I supervise with Phil Hubbard (@gypjh2000.bsky.social) in the Urban Futures research group

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jan 6

Seeing as it's the new year, I'll begin by resharing my paper which was published at a very inopportune time (Xmas Eve) – on mouldy housing, race, slow violence, and "toxic" black mould 🦠🦠. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Dec 24

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jan 6

Are these all from Manchester??? Looks unreal

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jan 6

Haha great minds! yes, ik I can apply for funding through my DTP, but from what I can tell I need to have already organised the institutional visit (at least in principle) – how did you do that bit???

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