Feminist Epistemologies and the Social Relations of Housing Provision

Satsangi, Madhu

doi:10.1080/14036096.2010.518800

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“…(2) Cultural, highlighting that instead of "universal" knowledge, there are masculine and feminine types of knowledge and gender is treated as a "primordial" division. (3) Post-structuralist, which holds that the binary opposition between male and female constructs and legitimates gender difference (Satsangi 2011).…”

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Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies

Satsangi

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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This paper seeks to make a contribution to debate on the epistemological base of housing studies. I argue that there are benefits from seeking an approach that combines key features of critical realist and standpoint feminist positions. Debate in housing studies' cognate disciplines suggests that these theoretical stances are not inconsistent and I find principles for their being used in concert. The paper shows how those principles are taken forward in parts of the literature. I identify the extent of exposure of housing studies to critical realist and feminist meta-theoretical debate and suggest the analytical implications of a feminist realist approach.

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Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies

Satsangi

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…What is for example the role of gender in rural housing provision and research? Is there an embedded androcentric bias in exploring social relations and power struggles in relation to rural housing inequalities (see also Satsangi 2011;Ziebarth 2009). We also call for more queer perspectives in relation to rural housing need and provision.…”

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Housing: A Lens to Rural Inequalities

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Ziebarth²

2016

Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies

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Housing research in the rural global north With few exceptions (see special issue of Housing and Society 2014; Planning Practice and Research 2009) most housing research focuses on urban areas. This section aims to place housing research in an international, and ambitiously comparative, context within existing rural development literature. Comparative rural housing research is important because it creates opportunities for policy transfer and 'lesson learning' (Hantrais 2009), while demonstrating the potency and limitations of knowledge itself (Lowe 2012). Comparative research is challenging because different contexts demonstrate contrasting and complex rural housing issues (Gallent 2009). Furthermore, rural areas are characterised by high levels of differentiation (Murdoch et al. 2003), including the socioeconomic structure of rural areas from agriculture-dominated to consumerist area types, multiple community stakeholders with unequal powers relations guiding the development narratives, and contrasting policy interventions regarding housing from tight regulation to absence of intervention. Another difficulty in comparative analyses is identifying what is 'rural'. Definitions of rural, especially in regards to housing policies, vary widely across the global north (Bertolini, Montanari and Peragine 2008). This highlights the need for interpretive comparative approaches that look beyond efforts to

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“…Feminist theories have highlighted the importance of gender to understand social functioning ( Butler, 1998 ; Satsangi, 2011 ). Gender, in contrast to sex which refers to the biological characteristics of individuals, is considered as a social structure that produces and reproduces the norms and roles associated with sexual differences and, at the same time, expresses the power relations that exist between these differences ( Butler, 1998 ; Connell, 2012 ; Rubin and Reiter, 1975 ).…”

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