Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe

Arapoglou, Vassilis P.; Gounis, Kostas

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“…While housing problems are being exacerbated, housing support measures, which are poor in any case, are being reduced even further (Kourachanis, 2019). This fact has been discussed in previous studies, which take the urban environment as their starting point (for example, Arapoglou and Gounis, 2017;Papadopoulou and Kourachanis, 2017). The findings of the field research in a rural area in Western Thessaly Greece also confirm the aforementioned.…”

Section: Residual Public Housing Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Anthopoulou

Partalidou

Kourachanis

2019

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The article examines invisible deprivation and housing precariousness in the countryside through the phenomenon of counterurbanization as a vehicle for overcoming poverty phenomena of urban households in Greece during the economic crisis. We argue that, despite the idealized picture for living in a village, as shown in the predominantly public discourse; rural life is governed by equally unfavorable living conditions for households at the risk of poverty. Through the theoretical framework of hidden homelessness in the rural, fundamental dimensions of housing problems and inadequate living conditions in the countryside are presented. Through the analysis of the different life pathways of people returning from the city to the village, the housing and social living conditions, during the crisis, in the Greek countryside are empirically examined. In the conclusions we find that returning back to rural areas, without accompanying established social support policies, only leads to the reproduction of a situation of proletarianization of households and to the transformation of urban poverty to rural poverty.

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Section: Residual Public Housing Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Anthopoulou

Partalidou

Kourachanis

2019

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“…New property-less groups have been increasingly present with increased difficulty to emulate the local dominant housing model in a period when access to homeownership becomes increasingly unequal in terms of class. Homelessness-which was marginal during the post-war period-has been rising (Arapoglou and Gounis 2018) and the most deprived groups-usually combining the lowest category in the occupational hierarchy (routine occupations) with an ethnic identity related to subaltern social positions-have been relegated to the worst part of the private rented sector. As a result, the latter have been experiencing acute housing issues-enhanced by the effect of the sovereign debt crisis which increased unemployment and poverty and by the new refugee crisis from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan-and are increasingly concentrated in particular neighbourhoods in the city centre and part of the periphery, creating potentially new spaces of segregation.…”

Section: Conclusion: Current Challenges For Housing Estatesmentioning

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Housing estates in Europe: poverty, ethnic segregation and policy challenges

Radzimski¹

2020

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Aims and ScopeThe Urban Book Series is a resource for urban studies and geography research worldwide. It provides a unique and innovative resource for the latest developments in the field, nurturing a comprehensive and encompassing publication venue for urban studies, urban geography, planning and regional development.The series publishes peer-reviewed volumes related to urbanization, sustainability, urban environments, sustainable urbanism, governance, globalization, urban and sustainable development, spatial and area studies, urban management, urban infrastructure, urban dynamics, green cities and urban landscapes. It also invites research which documents urbanization processes and urban dynamics on a national, regional and local level, welcoming case studies, as well as comparative and applied research.The series will appeal to urbanists, geographers, planners, engineers, architects, policy makers, and to all of those interested in a wide-ranging overview of contemporary urban studies and innovations in the field. It accepts monographs,

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“…The south coast of England. Athens here may bring to the fore the role of places and contexts beyond that world; where socio-economic situation now changes so rapidly that the poor and the homeless cannot be that easily 'othered' any more (Kaika 2012); and where landscapes of homelessness are being dynamically shaped and are, above all, contested (Arapoglou and Gounis 2017). The following section describes the methodology used for the paper's empirics.…”

Section: Homeless Mobilitiesmentioning

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“…Forming our understandings of mobility discursively, institutions are critical to the practice of mobility (Doughty and Murray 2016). For the case of Athens, in their recent overview, Arapoglou and Gounis (2017) pay particular attention to the mentalities that drive the emergent management of the city's poor and homeless, and position subjects accordingly. As an ingredient of these mentalities, throughout the machinic archipelago of central Athens there exists a specific institutional 'sense of mobility': that of individual mobilisation.…”

Section: The 'Machinic Archipelago' Of Athens City Centre and Its Sense Of Mobilitymentioning

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‘These people should not rest’: mobilities and frictions of the homeless geographies in Athens city centre

Bourlessas

2018

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The paper relates homelessness to the 'new mobilities paradigm' by highlighting mobility's constitutive character in homeless geographies, and the politics involved in the making of mobile homeless subjectivities in central Athens. Ethnographic material demonstrates that, within the city's institutional and material context, a specific sense of mobility prevails, which may reflect broader mentalities of managing the poor in times of austerity. The case of a night shelter exemplifies how this institutional sense materialises, whereas crucial frictions are involved in the city's homeless geographies. Yet it is the homeless subjects that embody, experience and make these mobilities and frictions meaningful and political.

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Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe

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Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Housing estates in Europe: poverty, ethnic segregation and policy challenges

‘These people should not rest’: mobilities and frictions of the homeless geographies in Athens city centre

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