{"title":"Celluloid Critique: Documentary Filmmaking and the Politics of Housing in Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel","authors":"A. Vasudevan","doi":"10.54825/wdbz3534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/wdbz3534","url":null,"abstract":"This is a paper about radical filmmaking and housing justice in the Märkisches Viertel in the 1970s. The satellite estate on the outskirts of West Berlin was one of the largest housing projects in West Germany and, for many residents, a space of increasing marginality and insecurity. As this paper argues, it was also a site of experimental filmmaking that documented the conditions faced by residents living in the Märkisches Viertel. The paper focuses on a group of students closely connected to the Deutschen Film- und Fernsehnakademie (dffb or the German Film and Television Academy) who began in the late 1960s to film various political activities and discussions in the neighbourhood. It places particular emphasis on the work of Helga Reidemeister, a social worker and student at the dffb whose documentary films adopted a working practice that depended on the direct participation of the families and women, in particular, with which she collaborated. Through a close reading of her 1979 film, Von wegen ‚Schicksal’ (1979), the paper foregrounds Reidemeister’s role as a feminist filmmaker whose work explored the mechanisms of displacement faced by tenants living in the Märkisches Viertel and the wider ‘structures of feeling’ that they generated. At stake here, is a broader commentary on the history of housing struggles in West Berlin and the importance of documentary filmmaking as a methodology for housing justice.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125109620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The politics of Zestimate: Merging technology and real estate industries","authors":"Masha Hupalo","doi":"10.54825/feix3602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/feix3602","url":null,"abstract":"This update centers the role of Zillow, an American real estate platform, and its home valuation tool, Zestimate, in the commodification of housing in the last decades. The massive amounts of data collected since 2006 has enabled Zillow to train its predictive algorithms that determine Zestimates and enter the real estate market as a house-flipper. Today, the company purchases homes in high-demand neighborhoods of 25 cities, carries out minor remodeling, and sells them within 90 days. In this update, I aim to illustrate the radical changes brought by the digitization of the housing marketplace and how they facilitate the transformation of homes into investment vehicles.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129835442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Cociña, M. Ferreri, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa García-Lamarca
{"title":"Editorial: Valuing housing in the normalised crises: Resistance, fatigue and lexicons of struggle","authors":"C. Cociña, M. Ferreri, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa García-Lamarca","doi":"10.54825/xyoa3684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/xyoa3684","url":null,"abstract":"In the continuum of intersecting housing crises, the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic are still testing individual and collective capacities to survive displacement, surveillance, precarisation and policing. Issue 3.2 emerges in the context of normalised new and old crises; both from and within the fatigue and normalisation of current ‘exceptional conditions’ and their implications for housing activists and engaged academics, and from the search for places and languages of resistance as sites for transformation.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122267339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ciudad Constituyente: The dispute for the right to habitat beyond the constitutional moment in Chile","authors":"","doi":"10.54825/kedu4488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/kedu4488","url":null,"abstract":"In October 2019, Chilean social revolts deployed and conquered a popular ‘constituent power’ that shook the ‘constituted power’ and the institutional structures that sustain it: those that have always been in power, the same old ways of doing things, the status quo that never changes, and those structures and processes that have harmed our society so much and for so long. In other words, the social reproduction that has been co-opted by the market, and a deliberately unequal and unrepresentative political-economic system. The constitutional moment that Chile is experiencing invites us to reflect upon and mobilise what made us recognise ourselves in the revolts of 2019. It is a moment that opens up new doors to redefine life in the territories. During this political moment, new platforms such as Ciudad Constituyente –a collaborative space for organisations of the people of Chile linked to habitat– have been created: a network organised upon democratic, anti-neoliberal, environmental and feminist principles. A collaborative space that seeks to move towards human dignity in neighbourhoods, cities and territories, with a focus on human, social and environmental rights at the centre of the constitutional debate.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126267274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carla Rivera Blanco, Melissa García-Lamarca, M. Ferreri
{"title":"Vecinas ≠ neighbours: La política del lenguaje en la lucha por la vivienda en Barcelona","authors":"Carla Rivera Blanco, Melissa García-Lamarca, M. Ferreri","doi":"10.54825/rgjm6829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/rgjm6829","url":null,"abstract":"Esta Conversación surge de la curiosidad y las reflexiones de colaboradoras del Radical Housing Journal sobre el creciente uso del término vecinas —en inglés, neighbour— en las luchas por la vivienda en Barcelona en los últimos años. Desde nuestra participación en la lucha por el derecho a la vivienda en esta ciudad, quisimos explorar más profundamente la dinámica detrás de la palabra vecina a través de una conversación con tres activistas por la vivienda residentes del barrio de Sant Andreu de Barcelona. A partir de sus vivencias y activismo, nos explican qué significado tiene la palabra vecinas, en qué medida su uso señala un giro discursivo, el motivo de su feminización, las convergencias y divergencias —y también la inclusividad / exclusividad— de su uso entre diferentes grupos y, finalmente, lo que ha significado en el último año durante la pandemia de Covid-19 y el no retorno a la normalidad.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130629023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASLIDO: Association of People for Homes, Czech Republic","authors":"","doi":"10.54825/oikv2629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/oikv2629","url":null,"abstract":"Asociace lidí pro domov (ASLIDO) is a group of people who have experienced homelessness and their allies in the Czech Republic. We work to make spaces that allow us, people with experiences of homelessness, to take part in the process of decision making regarding laws and policies that directly influence our lives. In our work, we use the theatre of the oppressed method.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"7 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113955697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Film review of ‘PUSH’: A documentary by Fredrik Gertten","authors":"C. Sartori","doi":"10.54825/cdln8892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/cdln8892","url":null,"abstract":"Push is a film of great ambition and great skill. Director Fredrik Gertten takes on the global housing crisis, and aims to uncover and expose the systemic forces that increasingly make contemporary cities unaffordable to working and middle class residents. The concept of gentrification no longer seems useful in this quest, and Gertten is looking for a new language to speak of the phenomenon. It is notoriously difficult to make cinematic, gripping films about the inner workings of the economy, and Gertten skilfully uses every trick in the filmmakers’ hat to produce an engaging and relatable work that carries the audience along and makes a complex but digestible argument.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114263246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing, the hyper-precarization of asylum seekers and the contested politics of welcome on Tyneside","authors":"K. Cassidy","doi":"10.54825/uhpo9977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/uhpo9977","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the role of housing in shaping the contested politics of welcome in the North East of England. It argues that changes to state provision of asylum seeker housing and the introduction of new legislation to create a hostile internalised bordering regime have led to a hyper-precarization of asylum seekers, which has been contested through a range of political projects at the urban scale. On Tyneside, these projects coalesced around struggles for improvements to state-provided accommodation for asylum seekers. The analysis reveals that whilst asylum housing has become key to the articulation of the politics of welcome within cities outside of London, it is spatially and temporally differentiated. The differential political projects shaping ‘welcoming’ at the urban scale emerge from contestation between a range of actors. On Tyneside, this contested politics arises from two key shifts: a change in national and local government in 2010 and 2011, which catalysed an oppositional politics of welcome amongst regional politicians; and the emergence of a new civil society initiative on Tyneside, whose direct action destabilised the relatively sedimented existing political landscape of welcome in the region, making space for differentiated asylum seeker political subjectivities.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124527616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The renewed ‘crisis’: Housing struggle before and after the pandemic","authors":"Alejandra Reyes, Michele Lancione","doi":"10.54825/gnph5545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/gnph5545","url":null,"abstract":"The Issue 2.1 Editorial Collective has been hit by surprise by the Covid-19 pandemic in many complex ways. After taking time to acknowledge the rupture, we decided to go forward with this issue as a way of joining the urgent discussion about the present and future of housing organizing. With this issue, we bring past experiences of struggle into the present as a basis for rethinking the housing doomsday machine that we got stuck with while trying to handle the pandemic and disastrous national quarantine management. Together with articles that reflect on the past experiences of housing struggles, we also opened this issue up for collective reflections about the present and the post-pandemic futures of housing and home.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124011098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building territories to protect life and not profit: The RHJ in conversation with Raquel Rolnik","authors":"Michele Lancione, R. Rolnik","doi":"10.54825/iqjf2355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/iqjf2355","url":null,"abstract":"In this conversation between the RHJ and Raquel Rolnik, she reflects on the makings of her latest book Urban Warfare (2019), discusses the importance of a commitment to a form of intellectual praxis that cannot be detached from direct engagement with housing struggles, and offers insights on the challenges and opportunities brought forward by the Covid-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128800323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}