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A groundbreaking collection examining housing as a site of both dispossession and liberation under contemporary racial capitalism. Through global case studies, contributors reveal how structural vi...
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Housing justice examines how contemporary dwelling operates at the intersection of violence and liberation. Through situated research spanning five continents, contributors analyse housing not as a bounded object but as extended geographies shaped by colonialism, financialisation and racial capitalism. The volume traces structural formations of injustice, everyday experiences of precarious habitation and collective movements for transformation. Long-term situated research is presented from the case of financialisation of housing in Eastern Europe to sex workers' housing struggles in Italy, from extended forms of urbanisation in India to the scaling-out of tenant organising in North America. Moving beyond the urge to provide normative policy ‘fixes’ for the housing question, the book develops a tripartite approach—structures, intersections, liberations—that reveals housing as a key site for understanding and challenging fundamental structural injustices of our time. Essential reading for those seeking situated, politically committed scholarship on the global housing and habitational crisis.
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Price: £25.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 15 December 2026
ISBN: 9781526195203
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing and homelessness
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Michele Lancione is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Polytechnic of Turin

Introduction
Studying and fighting for geographies of housing justice – Michele Lancione

Part I: Structural formations
1 The coloniality of state responses to homelessness: Racialised systems of enclosure and confinement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1880s to present – Rayna Rusenko
2 Financialisation of housing, from western to eastern European contexts – Chiara Iacovone
3 Thinking housing decarbonisation through urban political ecologies – Melissa García-Lamarca

Part II: Grounded intersections
4 Putting home to work in Belo Horizonte: Towards the study of housing and popular economies – Rodrigo Castriota
5 Inhabiting extensions and housing as extensions: Housing and city building and Noida, India – Devra Waldman
6 Evicting people, redistributing agency: The aftermath of the ‘housing political’ learned inside Roman organised squats – Chiara Cacciotti
7 Housing stigma: Looking at inhabitation through the prism of sex work in Italy – Daniela Morpurgo

Part III: Organised liberations
8 Inhabiting contested urban environments: Urban natures, settler imaginaries and housing struggles in Montreal – Daniela Giudici
9 An autonomous tenant power internationalism for our time: Learning from the Los Angeles Tenants Union and Autonomous Tenant Union Network – Ana Vilenica
10 Commoning housing futures: Transforming intergenerational property transmission as a site for housing justice – Mara Ferreri

Conclusion
Figuring the house out there – AbdouMaliq Simone