Description du projet
Un meilleur aperçu de la lutte mondiale contre la précarité du logement
Chaque année, des millions de personnes sont expulsées de force de leur maison. En outre, 1,6 milliard de personnes vivent dans des logements inadéquats. En réponse à l’augmentation de la précarité du logement à travers le monde, les mouvements populaires pour le logement font de plus en plus partie du paysage. Cependant, l’importance de leur organisation à l’échelle mondiale et de manière comparative est mal comprise. Comment les luttes pour le logement refaçonnent-elles les villes de régions géographiques différentes? Le projet RadicalHOUSING, financé par l’UE, a pour objectif de combler ces lacunes de connaissance. Pour ce faire, il adoptera une approche radicale et innovante du logement et mènera des recherches pionnières sur les réseaux translocaux et les luttes pour le logement dans les Amériques, en Europe, en Afrique et en Asie. Le projet permettra de mieux comprendre la lutte mondiale contre la précarité du logement et sa politique urbaine.
Objectif
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.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
10129 Torino
Italie