Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach
ABSTRACTDuring the pandemic, our needs and expectations of our housing stock rapidly expanded to cope with demands of lockdowns, working from home and restricted access to other neighbourhoods. Empirical studies over the last few years indicate how concepts such as multifunctionality, responsiveness...
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| description | ABSTRACTDuring the pandemic, our needs and expectations of our housing stock rapidly expanded to cope with demands of lockdowns, working from home and restricted access to other neighbourhoods. Empirical studies over the last few years indicate how concepts such as multifunctionality, responsiveness, social connectivity and localisation became critical. In many cases, the pandemic deepened existing housing-related inequities. Households already struggling with lower incomes found themselves contending with even more challenges: constrained spaces, inadequate heating and the noise of neighbours. Given the strong link between housing and health, there is an urgent need to understand the ability of our current housing stock to meet the demands of such ‘shocks’. Of particular importance is the concept of resilience in housing systems. Resilience has become ubiquitous in policy discourse but is underdeveloped and undertheorised. We thus use actor-network theory (ANT) concepts to develop a multi-level conceptualisation of resilience, arguing that ‘housing resilience’ unfolds on five levels: resilience within an individual dwelling, within housing supply, within the housing supply chain, between dwellings and communities and between dwellings and the natural environment. We then demonstrated the robustness of this conceptualisation by mobilising it as a lens for an analysis, starting with 11 state-level housing policies in Australia. We selected the ‘best practice’ housing policy with the most extensive reference to resilience. We then evidenced how our multi-level conceptualisation allows us to identify critical gaps even in this ‘exemplar’ housing policy, interrogate its structure and prioritise future action plans. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-19194d006e57468eb5789e762a9778bb2024-04-17T11:14:09ZengTaylor & Francis GroupRegional Studies, Regional Science2168-13762024-12-0111127129010.1080/21681376.2024.2325172Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approachZelinna Pablo0Clare Littleton1Kerry London2Centre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia, Melbourne, AustraliaCentre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia, Melbourne, AustraliaCentre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia, Sydney, AustraliaABSTRACTDuring the pandemic, our needs and expectations of our housing stock rapidly expanded to cope with demands of lockdowns, working from home and restricted access to other neighbourhoods. Empirical studies over the last few years indicate how concepts such as multifunctionality, responsiveness, social connectivity and localisation became critical. In many cases, the pandemic deepened existing housing-related inequities. Households already struggling with lower incomes found themselves contending with even more challenges: constrained spaces, inadequate heating and the noise of neighbours. Given the strong link between housing and health, there is an urgent need to understand the ability of our current housing stock to meet the demands of such ‘shocks’. Of particular importance is the concept of resilience in housing systems. Resilience has become ubiquitous in policy discourse but is underdeveloped and undertheorised. We thus use actor-network theory (ANT) concepts to develop a multi-level conceptualisation of resilience, arguing that ‘housing resilience’ unfolds on five levels: resilience within an individual dwelling, within housing supply, within the housing supply chain, between dwellings and communities and between dwellings and the natural environment. We then demonstrated the robustness of this conceptualisation by mobilising it as a lens for an analysis, starting with 11 state-level housing policies in Australia. We selected the ‘best practice’ housing policy with the most extensive reference to resilience. We then evidenced how our multi-level conceptualisation allows us to identify critical gaps even in this ‘exemplar’ housing policy, interrogate its structure and prioritise future action plans.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21681376.2024.2325172Actor-network theoryhousingsocial determinants of healthresiliencehousing policyR58 |
| spellingShingle | Zelinna Pablo Clare Littleton Kerry London Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach Regional Studies, Regional Science Actor-network theory housing social determinants of health resilience housing policy R58 |
| title | Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach |
| title_full | Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach |
| title_fullStr | Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach |
| title_short | Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach |
| title_sort | reconceptualising resilience in housing policy an actor network approach |
| topic | Actor-network theory housing social determinants of health resilience housing policy R58 |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21681376.2024.2325172 |
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