As described in D.2.1. our theoretical framework builds upon (a) reflections of crises, (b) legal geographies of rights and practices of citizenship, (c) housing struggles as political struggles and (d) re-significations of the rights to housing.
By considering,
- crises as “a blind spot for the production of knowledge” (Roitman, 2013); as contexts, as political technologies and as meaning-producing (Koutrolikou, 2023), and
- categorization of claims in terms of their re-acting, re-claiming, and re-conceptualizing of rights elements (see D.2.1), we develop an analytical and methodological framework for taking our research forward.
Therefore, in disentangling these articulations of crises and claims to the rights to housing, fundamental questions arise concerning:
- What housing-related rights are impacted and how in each of the selected crises and overall, as a concerted impact?
- Who is the subject of housing-related rights retrenchment or violations in each case and how are they enforced?
- How are housing struggles articulated? Which are their repertoires of action and how are housing solidarity networks built and sustained?
- How do housing policies and housing struggles affect each other? How does their dialectic articulation unfold? How is the “right to housing” reframed through this dialectic articulation?
- Are rights to housing a voiced or practised claim, and if so, how are these rights (re)signified and (re)claimed vis-à-vis the different crises and contexts?
HousInC – Deliverable report D.2.2. – Research Methodology Report