Descripción del proyecto
Mayor conocimiento sobre la lucha mundial contra las viviendas precarias
Millones de personas son desalojadas a la fuerza de sus hogares cada año. Es más, 1 600 millones de personas tienen una vivienda inadecuada. Como respuesta al incremento de la precariedad de la vivienda en todo el mundo, los movimientos populares por la vivienda son cada vez más comunes. Sin embargo, se comprende poco la importancia de que se organicen de forma internacional, así como de un modo comparativo. ¿Cómo reorganizan las luchas por la vivienda en nuestras ciudades en todo el mundo? El proyecto RadicalHOUSING, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene como objetivo subsanar estas deficiencias fundamentales de conocimiento. Lo logrará a través de un enfoque radical e innovador de la vivienda y encabezando una investigación sobre redes translocales y luchas por la vivienda en el continente americano, Europa, África y Asia. El proyecto conducirá a una mejor comprensión de la lucha mundial contra la precariedad de la vivienda y sus políticas urbanas.
Objetivo
According to UN-Habitat, each year millions of people face forced eviction from their homes, while a staggering 1.6 billion are inadequately housed. Forecasts suggest housing precarity will continue to grow in future, worldwide. In response, grassroots housing movements are becoming increasingly common. Crucially, these groups fight for more than just housing, often advancing critiques of wider societal inequalities. Yet little is known of the broader significance of these struggles, and research has failed to offer an understanding of geographically dispersed movements. The ways in which the fight for the right to housing operates is essential to understand contemporary urban life. RadicalHOUSING will fill these critical gaps through an innovative Radical Housing Approach and pioneering empirical research at a global scale.
First, the project identifies the importance of a historical understanding of dwelling precarity, to appreciate the relevance of housing struggles worldwide (Objective I). Second, it investigates and profiles prominent grassroots networks in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to analyse their goals and organisational culture (Objective II). To appreciate the wider significance of radical housing resistance, the project deploys an ambitious ethnographic encounter with grassroots struggles in eight emblematic cities (Objective III). It then brings selected participants and experts together in a Global Forum of Radical Housing, fostering the exchange of peer-to-peer knowledge to generate further findings (Objective IV). Finally, the project will gather these insights into an innovative critical comparative framework, which will lead to agenda-setting publications, interventions, and academic scholarship (Objective V).
RadicalHOUSING is a ground-breaking project that will contribute to housing, urban and geographical studies, as well as to grassroots knowledge, opening a new phase in understanding the global fight against housing precarity.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
10129 Torino
Italia