Common sense as political struggle: asserting the right to home following the Grenfell Tower fire

Sarah Leaney

doi:10.1177/1360780418819010

Common sense as political struggle: asserting the right to home following the Grenfell Tower fire

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Abstract

The Grenfell Tower fire is a tragic manifestation of the brutality of the neoliberal conditionality of home. The systematic devaluing of the lives of residents in the social housing block is the result of stigmatisation-fuelled neglect. This paper explores the ideological formation of the ‘ideals’ of home ownership, asserting a right to home as a means to resist the ‘unequal distribution of precarity’ that defines neoliberal formations of home.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Journal	Sociological Research Online
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418819010
Publication status	Published - 26 Dec 2018

Keywords

Social housing
Right to home
Precarity
Austerity
Neoliberal common sense

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Sarah Leaney
- S.Leaneybrighton.acuk
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Senior Lecturer
- Cities, Injustice and Resistance Research and Enterprise Group
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