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Theorising Housing Precarity Governance from A Relational Perspective: Affective Attachment of Debtors

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article aims to theorise the housing governance of vulnerable debtor populations from a relational perspective, developing the affective attachment concept. While the emotionality of housing has been studied in housing research, the relational understanding of affects/emotions offers a fruitful perspective for understanding the interface of power (re)production between subjects and structures. The argument is supported by a literature review and excerpts from a qualitative analysis of 30 interviews with overindebted people and 20 institutional actors which demonstrate the relevance of emotions in attachment to the precarious housing market. Linking the relevance of affective attachment with moral discourses, the article shows the potential to better understand how the (self)control and (self)discipline–(self)governance–of vulnerable people could be performed by morally modulated affects and emotions.

Source: Critical Housing Analysis

DOI: 10.13060/23362839.2024.11.2.575

Author: Tomáš Hoření Samec

Institutions: Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology

Language: English

Topic: Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Subfield: Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Grantová Agentura České Republiky