Based on a workshop "Law and the Precarious Home" hosted by Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2015.--ECIP acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introducing precarisation : contemporary understandings of law and the insecure home / Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter -- Precarious homes : the sharing continuum / Sarah Blandy -- Property, well-being and home : positive psychology and property law's foundations / Nestor M Davidson -- The "affordable alternative to renting" : property guardians and legal dimensions of housing precariousness / Caroline Hunter and Jed Meers -- Public housing insecurity in New South Wales : an historical overview (1971-2014) / Brendan Edgeworth -- The tenant's home and the landlord's property : the Polish struggle to achieve a balance of rights / Magdalena Habdas -- Law and the precarious home : a case study of thermal comfort in English homes / Helen Carr -- Governing risk and uncertainty : financialisation and the regulatory framework of housing associations / Richard Goulding -- Safe and sound : precariousness, compartmentation and death at home / Edward Kirton-Darling -- The UK as a precarious home / Richard Warren -- Precarious home and institutional ambiguity in China's urbanisation / Ting Xu and Wei Gong -- On shaky ground : homes as socio-legal spaces in a post-earthquake environment / Ann Dupuis, Suzanne Vallance and David Thorns -- Precarity and defiance in temporary accommodation : the King Hill Hostel campaign, 1965-66 / Laura Binger -- Responding to the precarisation of housing : a case study of PAH Barcelona / Gabriele D'Adda, Lucia Delgado and Eduard Sala -- Returning home? / Danie Brand.
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