Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism

IF 3.6 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Antipode Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI:10.1111/anti.70026
Ståle Holgersen, Timothy Blackwell
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The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go-to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, deteriorating housing affordability. Instead of referring to a temporally and spatially bound event, however, the phrase now has become a ubiquitous signifier to encompass a protracted global urban condition. Such framings, both tacit and explicit, are problematic. First, should “crisis” elide with a state of quasi-permanence then, logically, we would require a new term to describe decisive turning points in time and space. Second, conflating “housing crisis” with long-standing structural immiseration shrouds more than it reveals about the nature of contemporary urban capitalism. Such operationalisations often underestimate both the extent to which housing systems can absorb disruption before reaching critical tipping points and the dynamic capacity of state and capital to preserve the existing nexus of asset wealth. We advocate for a more precise, historically grounded conceptualisation of housing crises—one that interrogates their structural roots and shifts the analysis from generalised “housing crisis” narratives to specific moments of housing system crisis.

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住房危机还是贫困?重新审视城市资本主义下的住房问题
“住房危机”一词在媒体、政治和学术领域大量出现,并已成为一个常用的复合名词,用来描述与普遍的、不断恶化的住房负担能力相关的多种社会弊病的紧迫性。然而,这个短语现在已经成为一个无处不在的符号,涵盖了一个长期的全球城市状况,而不是指一个时间和空间受限的事件。这样的框架,无论是隐性的还是显性的,都是有问题的。首先,如果“危机”以一种准永久状态被忽略,那么从逻辑上讲,我们将需要一个新的术语来描述时间和空间上的决定性转折点。其次,将“住房危机”与长期存在的结构性贫困混为一谈,掩盖了当代城市资本主义的本质。这种操作往往低估了住房系统在达到关键临界点之前吸收破坏的程度,以及国家和资本保持现有资产财富关系的动态能力。我们提倡对住房危机进行更精确的、基于历史的概念化,即对其结构根源进行质疑,并将分析从广义的“住房危机”叙述转移到住房系统危机的具体时刻。
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Antipode GEOGRAPHY-
CiteScore
9.50
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期刊介绍: Antipode has published dissenting scholarship that explores and utilizes key geographical ideas like space, scale, place, borders and landscape. It aims to challenge dominant and orthodox views of the world through debate, scholarship and politically-committed research, creating new spaces and envisioning new futures. Antipode welcomes the infusion of new ideas and the shaking up of old positions, without being committed to just one view of radical analysis or politics.
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