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2nd Call for Papers: Struggles over ‘home’ in a time of crisis. 

Hosted by the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds 13th and 14th December 2016

NB: this is now a two-day conference. Details and registration here: http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/events/2016/struggles-over-home-in-a-time-of-crisis

Plenary speakers:
Gargi Bhattacharya – University of East London Sivamohan Valluvan – University of Manchester Manuel Aalbers - KU Leuven Kehinde Andrews – Birmingham City University Adrian Favell – University of Leeds Paul Watt – Birkbeck, University of London Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper – University of Liverpool and the Open University

Deadline for 250 word abstracts: 28th October 2016

If precaritisation is no longer a ‘marginal phenomenon’ (Lorey, 2015), then where does this leave our sense of ‘home’? Recent economic crashes, austerity regimes, refugee crises and in the UK, Brexit-related racisms, demand robust accounts of: contemporary displacements and ‘domicides’ (Porteus and Smith 2001; Nowicki 2014), patterns of domination producing ideas of ‘home’ and the means of challenging these violences and chauvinisms. In response, this event calls together researchers (including early career), activists and organisers to discuss how ideas and materialities of ‘home’ are being financialised, erased, precaritised, imagined, bounded, produced and disrupted in different registers, moments and spaces today. It seeks interdisciplinary dialogue to ask: what, where, who is ‘home’ today? Who gets to claim and name ‘home’? What kind of tensions or injustices do interventions in and allusions to ‘home’ generate? And what forms and practices of labour and resistance do these give rise to? We seek this productive engagement with meanings of ‘home’ across a multiplicity of settings, scales and practices and take inspiration from not only ongoing sociological debates and urgent activisms, but from recent cultural interventions which reflect mobile, imagined or idealised constructs of ‘home’ in a period of endemic insecurity e.g. Grayson Perry’s (2015) ‘House for Essex, Assemble’s (2015) Turner Prize winning ‘Granby Four Streets’ project and films such as ‘99 Homes’ (Bahrani, 2015) and ‘A Syrian Love Story’ (McAllister 2015). 

We welcome contributions on topics including, but not restricted to:

Financialisation of housing
Social housing struggles
Gentrification / displacement
Forced migrations / mobilities
Ethnicities / nationalisms / multicultures Postcolonial / critical race / queer accounts of ‘home’
Austerities and precarities
Housing the 1% (elites, gated communities, poor doors) Youth transitions and ‘generation rent’ 
Feminism and the ‘home’
Borders / movements / flows   
Carceral ‘homes’ / camps
Transient ‘homes’ and settlements
Resistance / squatting / alternative communities Homelessness

Please send paper abstracts to Andrew Wallace ([log in to unmask])

We have a small budget to support postgraduate student travel expenses. Please notify Andrew if you would like to apply.

References
Lorey, I (2015) State of Insecurity, London: Verso

Nowicki, M (2014) Rethinking Domicide: Towards an Expanded Critical Geography of Home, Geography Compass, 8/11: 785-795

Porteous, D. and Smith, E. (2001). Domicide: the global destruction of home. Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen’s University Press