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.
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. Returning Home? Danie Brand
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.
Reviews for Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times
[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. -- Mark Jordan, University of Southampton * The Edinburgh Law Review *
