Housing and Home Unbound

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds.

Nicole Cook, University of Melbourne, Australia Aidan Davison, University of Tasmania, Australia Louise Crabtree, University of Western Sydney, Australia

1. Housing and home unbound (Nicole Cook, Aidan Davison and Louise Crabtree), Part I. Housing/Home and Worlds of Finance, 2. Uploading Real Estate: Home as a Digital, Global Commodity (Dallas Rogers), 3. Homeownership, Asset-based Welfare and the Actuarial Subject: Exploring the Dynamics of Ageing and Homeownership in New Zealand (Laurence Murphy and Michael Rehm), 4. Liquid Housing Wealth in an Era of Financialisation (Fiona Allon and Jean Parker), 5. Cohabiting with Cars: The Tangled Connections Between Car Parking and Housing Markets (Liz Taylor), Part II. Housing/Home and Worlds of Nature, 6. Secure in the Privacy of Your Own Nature: Political Ontology, Urban Nature and Home Ownership in Australia (Aidan Davison), 7. Making Nature and Money in the East Perth Redevelopment (Laurence Troy), 8. Displacement as Method: Seasteading, Tiny Houses, and 'Freemen on the Land' (Lorenzo Veracini), 9. "The Best House Possible": The Everyday Practices and Micro-politics of Achieving Comfort in a Low-Cost Home (Michelle Gabriel, Millie Rooney and Phillipa Watson), Part III. Housing/Home and Worlds of Possibility, 10. Unbounding Home Ownership in Australia (Louise Crabtree), 11. Performing Housing Affordability: the case of Sydney's Green Bans (Nicole Cook), 12. Interstitial Housing Space: No Centre Just Borders (Wendy Steele and Cathy Keys), 13. Burnt Houses and the Haunted Home: Reconfiguring the ruin in Australia (Katrina Schlunke), Thrown-togetherness, 2015 (Andrew Gorman-Murray)