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Radical Housing: Cities and the global fight against housing precarity

Descrizione del progetto

Una maggiore comprensione della lotta globale contro la precarietà abitativa

Ogni anno milioni di persone vengono sfrattate con la forza dalle loro case e, per di più, 1,6 miliardi di persone possiedono un alloggio inadeguato. In risposta alla crescente precarietà abitativa in tutto il mondo, i movimenti spontanei per il diritto all’abitare stanno diventando sempre più frequenti. Tuttavia, si comprende poco del significato della loro organizzazione a livello globale e in modo comparativo. In che modo le lotte per il diritto alla casa stanno rimodellando le nostre città in diverse aree geografiche? Il progetto RadicalHOUSING, finanziato dall’UE, mira a colmare queste importanti lacune di conoscenze, attraverso un approccio innovativo e radicale al diritto all’abitare, nonché una ricerca pionieristica sulle reti translocali e le lotte per la casa nelle Americhe, in Europa, in Africa e in Asia. Il progetto porterà a una migliore comprensione della lotta globale contro la precarietà abitativa e delle relative politiche urbane.

Obiettivo

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.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Istituzione ospitante

POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 432 394,46
Indirizzo
CORSO DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI 24
10129 Torino
Italia

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Regione
Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 432 394,46

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