Law and the precarious home : socio legal perspectives on the home in insecure times / edited by Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Carr, Helen (Law teacher), editor.

Edgeworth, Brendan, editor.

Hunter, Caroline (Barrister), editor.

Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, sponsoring body.

Conference Name:

Law and the Precarious Home (Conference) (2015 : Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law)

Series:

{OTilde}nati international series in law and society.

Oñati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--Law and legislation--Social aspects--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introducing precarisation : contemporary understandings of law and the insecure home

Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter

Precarious homes : the sharing continuum

Sarah Blandy

Property, well-being and home : positive psychology and property law's foundations

Nestor M Davidson

The "affordable alternative to renting" : property guardians and legal dimensions of housing precariousness

Caroline Hunter and Jed Meers

Public housing insecurity in New South Wales : an historical overview (1971-2014)

Brendan Edgeworth

The tenant's home and the landlord's property : the Polish struggle to achieve a balance of rights

Magdalena Habdas

Law and the precarious home : a case study of thermal comfort in English homes

Helen Carr

Governing risk and uncertainty : financialisation and the regulatory framework of housing associations

Richard Goulding

Safe and sound : precariousness, compartmentation and death at home

Edward Kirton-Darling

The UK as a precarious home

Richard Warren

Precarious home and institutional ambiguity in China's urbanisation

Ting Xu and Wei Gong

On shaky ground : homes as socio-legal spaces in a post-earthquake environment

Ann Dupuis, Suzanne Vallance and David Thorns

Precarity and defiance in temporary accommodation : the King Hill Hostel campaign, 1965-66

Laura Binger

Responding to the precarisation of housing : a case study of PAH Barcelona

Gabriele D'Adda, Lucia Delgado and Eduard Sala

Returning home?

Danie Brand.

Notes:

Based on a workshop "Law and the Precarious Home" hosted by Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2015.--ECIP acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781509914593

1509914595

9781509914579

1509914579

OCLC:

1013988674