Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times

by Helen Carr, David Nelken, Brendan Edgeworth, Rosemary Hunter, Caroline Hunter

Overview

This book explores the emergent and internationally widespread phenomenon of precariousness, specifically in relation to the home. It maps the complex reality of the insecure home by examining the many ways in which precariousness is manifested in legal and social change across a number of otherwise very different jurisdictions. By applying innovative work done by socio-legal scholars in other fields such as labour law and welfare law to the home, Law and the Precarious Home offers a broader theoretical understanding of contemporary 'precarisation' of law and society. It will enable reflections upon differential experience of home dependent upon class, race and gender from a range of local, national and cross-national perspectives. Finally it will explore the pluralisation of ideas of home in subjective experience, social reality and legal form. The answers offered in this book reflect the expertise and standing of the assembled authors who are international leaders in their field, with decades of first-hand practical and intellectual engagement with the area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509941124
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Series:	Oñati International Series in Law and Society
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Helen Carr is Professor of Law at Kent Law School.
Brendan Edgeworth is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.
Caroline Hunter is Professor of Law at York Law School.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Precarisation: Contemporary Understandings of Law and the Insecure Home
Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter

Part I: Understanding Precarisation
2. Precarious Homes: The Sharing Continuum
Sarah Blandy
3. Property, Well-being, and Home: Positive Psychology and Property Law’s Foundations
Nestor M Davidson

Part II: Rental Security
4. The ‘Affordable Alternative to Renting’: Property Guardians and Legal Dimensions of Housing Precariousness
Caroline Hunter and Jed Meers
5. Public Housing Insecurity in New South Wales: An Historical Overview (1971–2014)
Brendan Edgeworth
6. The Tenant’s Home and the Landlord’s Property—The Polish Struggle to Achieve a Balance of Rights
Magdalena Habdas

Part III: The Home and Governmental Precarisation
7. Law and the Precarious Home: A Case Study of Thermal Inefficiency in English Homes
Helen Carr
8. Governing Risk and Uncertainty: Financialisation and the Regulatory Framework of Housing Associations
Richard Goulding
9. Safe and Sound: Precariousness, Compartmentation and Death at Home
Edward Kirton-Darling

Part IV: Global/Local Precariousness
10. The UK as a Precarious Home
Richard Warren
11. Precarious Home and Institutional Ambiguity in China’s Urbanisation
Ting Xu and Wei Gong
12. On Shaky Ground: Homes as Socio-Legal Spaces in a Post-Earthquake Environment
Ann Dupuis, Suzanne Vallance and David Thorns

Part V: Resistance and Strategies
13. Precarity and Defi ance in Temporary Accommodation: The King Hill Hostel Campaign, 1965–66
Laura Binger
14. Responding to the Precarisation of Housing: A Case Study of PAH Barcelona
Gabriele D’Adda, Lucia Delgado and Eduard Sala
15. Returbaning Home?
Danie Brand

Editorial Reviews

[T]he editors are to be commended on drawing together legal academics across jurisdictions and subject areas to contribute to this diverse collection which makes a considerable contribution to the literature. The contributions shed light on the complex, highly contingent role which the law plays in contributing to security or precarity of the home.
The Edinburgh Law Review

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