Common Sense as Political Struggle: Asserting the Right to Home Following the Grenfell Tower Fire

Sarah Leaney

Sociological Research Online, 2022, vol. 27, issue 4, 1113-1121

Abstract: The Grenfell Tower fire is a tragic manifestation of the brutality of the neoliberal conditionality of home. The systematic devaluing of the lives of residents in the social housing block is the result of stigmatisation-fuelled neglect. This article explores the ideological formation of the ‘ideals’ of home ownership, asserting a right to home as a means to resist the ‘unequal distribution of precarity’ that defines neoliberal formations of home.

Keywords: austerity; neoliberal common sense; precarity; right to home; social housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/1360780418819010

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