Housing Policy in the Shadow of Grenfell

Noronha, Nigel de

doi:10.2307/j.ctvg8p6fb.19

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“…Cooper and Whyte build a picture of routine and mundane administrative and bureaucratic decisions, creating a lived reality of violence and harm in innumerable working-class communities against the backdrop of the neo-liberal capitalist city. Stuart Hodkinson, meanwhile, offered that this institutional chain of events was structured by neoliberal housing policy (2019, 2021; see also de Noronha, 2019 andBurgum, 2019). It is important to understand, from this perspective, that the Grenfell Tower tragedy is not an accident: rather, it is an event that was decades in the making.…”

Section: Responding To Grenfell: the Lived Reality Of The Neoliberal ...mentioning

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Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political

Pile,

Keith,

Murji

et al. 2023

Environ Plan D

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The idea of the open city has been used both conceptually and analytically to understand the politics of the city. The contrast between the open city and the closed city relies, in part, upon an understanding of the global systems that enfold cities and, consequently, the politics that are – and are not – afforded cities. Notions such as the postpolitical city depend not on temporality where the city has ceased to be political, but a spatialisation of politics where the (properly) political has become excluded by the closed systems that envelope cities. In this paper, we explore analytical and theoretical responses to the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire to disclose the ways that different critiques of neoliberalism and racial capitalism deploy and rely upon different conceptions of the open and closed systems of the city. Rather than settle for the open/closed binary, we seek to understand how different forms of openness and closedness afford/constrain the politicisation (and depoliticization) of city life – and its catastrophes.

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Section: Responding To Grenfell: the Lived Reality Of The Neoliberal ...mentioning

confidence: 99%