Common Sense as Political Struggle: Asserting the Right to Home Following the Grenfell Tower Fire. (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Leaney, Sarah
• Is Part Of: Sociological research online. Volume 27:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 1113
• Page End: 1121
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: austerity -- neoliberal common sense -- precarity -- right to home -- social housing; Sociology -- Periodicals; Sociology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Sociology -- Research -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1177/1360780418819010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1360-7804

Abstract

The Grenfell Tower fire is a tragic manifestation of the brutality of the neoliberal conditionality of home. The systematic devaluing of the lives of residents in the social housing block is the result of stigmatisation-fuelled neglect. This article explores the ideological formation of the 'ideals' of home ownership, asserting a right to home as a means to resist the 'unequal distribution of precarity' that defines neoliberal formations of home.