Is this a city that cares? A gendered, human rights approach to the financialization of social housing
Last Thursday, on June 30, Lidia Manzo gave a seminar at MUSSI to discuss her CITY-OF-CARE research manifesto.
Guided by critical approaches to the
financialization of housing and theories of social capital in vulnerable
areas, the seminar called for an ambitious reframing of housing as a
sociomaterial infrastructure of care. It thus explored how care
circulates in a gendered, embodied way through social housing and offers
a new agenda for reform based on this view.
Extended ethnography conducted in Dublin’s inner-city Oliver Bond flats illustrated the active role women play in developing self-help schemes and survival strategies. Through these actions, women fought the uncertainty of living under the threat of gentrification.
In case you missed it, you can catch up here - https://youtu.be/T5fhIfheLyw