What Makes a Good Tenant?: Squatters and migrants resisting housing discrimination in Warsaw
In this paper, I pose a question of whether it would be possible to build an alliance of the migrant tenants and squatters in Warsaw to resist housing discrimination. The socio-political framework for my answer includes housing, financial, and asylum crises. By referring to the ideas of “po...
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| description | In this paper, I pose a question of whether it would be possible to build an alliance of the migrant tenants and squatters in Warsaw to resist housing discrimination. The socio-political framework for my answer includes housing, financial, and asylum crises. By referring to the ideas of “political hegemony” (Mouffe) and “the distribution of the sensible” (Rancière), I show that housing discrimination is the result of the neoliberal narrative that puts the owner of a flat in a position of power. An intersectional perspective allows me to examine how different identities (gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc.) are embodied by tenants searching for flats. Finally, I interpret the relations between squatting and migrant communities as “a critical alliance” (Butler) based on the idea of “nonheroic disobedience and weak resistance” (Majewska). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27083c6fa50f4465bb7f688c8d2e58b72022-12-22T03:29:22ZengRadical Housing JournalRadical Housing Journal2632-28702019-04-011120521010.54825/VDMK3358What Makes a Good Tenant?: Squatters and migrants resisting housing discrimination in WarsawKamil Kuhr In this paper, I pose a question of whether it would be possible to build an alliance of the migrant tenants and squatters in Warsaw to resist housing discrimination. The socio-political framework for my answer includes housing, financial, and asylum crises. By referring to the ideas of “political hegemony” (Mouffe) and “the distribution of the sensible” (Rancière), I show that housing discrimination is the result of the neoliberal narrative that puts the owner of a flat in a position of power. An intersectional perspective allows me to examine how different identities (gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc.) are embodied by tenants searching for flats. Finally, I interpret the relations between squatting and migrant communities as “a critical alliance” (Butler) based on the idea of “nonheroic disobedience and weak resistance” (Majewska).https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2019/what-makes-a-good-tenant/ |
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| title | What Makes a Good Tenant?: Squatters and migrants resisting housing discrimination in Warsaw |
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| title_short | What Makes a Good Tenant?: Squatters and migrants resisting housing discrimination in Warsaw |
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