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{"title":"Informal housing residents’ well-being in cities of the Global North and South: a reply to ‘Informal housing’ by Quintana Vigiola","authors":"K. Fattah","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16311420506212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16311420506212","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84254389","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":"Crisis times - a reply to ‘Crisis futures: COVID-19 and the speculative turning point of history’ by Ravinder Kaur","authors":"N. Thylstrup","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16399246138327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16399246138327","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"67 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76687643","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":"It is time for healthy living priorities to be integrated into Indigenous housing policy and practice: a reply to ‘Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: crowded, unrepaired and raising the risk of infectious diseases’ by Memmott et al","authors":"Daphne Habibis","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16324314013439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16324314013439","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84960471","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":"A decisive moment: human rights or authoritarianism? It is a choice","authors":"Morten Kjaerum","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16333404176547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16333404176547","url":null,"abstract":"The VUCA is a well-known business concept capturing that we live in an ever changing global and local landscape defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The convergence of profound changes brought about by new technologies and global crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the NATO defeat in Afghanistan constitute the root of the VUCA world. With the outset in these two contemporary crises I will explore what sort of change and lessons learned can be derived from what they caused. This historically defining moment may be the time where human rights are either marginalized for a long period of time or they take another step forward realizing the interconnectedness and interrelatedness of all rights in addressing global in-equalities.","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83453234","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":"When impairment impairs: a reply to ‘Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits’ by Johnson and Nettle","authors":"T. Shakespeare","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16364800477981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16364800477981","url":null,"abstract":"Provides a response to Johnson and Nettle’s paper, discussing justifications for the UK welfare state, and associated perceptions of disability and fairness. Rather than the ‘stick’ of sanctions and conditionality, more investment is required in return to work efforts.","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"87 8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84030295","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":"Informal housing and residents’ well-being in Caracas and Sydney: a comparative study of residents’ experiences","authors":"Gabriela Quintana Vigiola","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16309244430387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16309244430387","url":null,"abstract":"Informal housing has been assessed to have a negative impact on its residents’ well-being. However, this article demonstrates that residents also perceive and experience some positive effects within their precarious housing condition. Both the Global South and the Global North are home to informal housing, yet there are very few studies that compare these contexts. In response, this article discusses the differences and similarities between how informality and precarious housing emerges and is experienced by its residents in both contexts. Qualitative content analysis was applied to interpret the data collected in two separate studies developed in Caracas and Sydney. The perspectives of two different populations deemed vulnerable, low-income groups are discussed: slum dwellers and international students. Aligning with Roy’s (Roy, 2005) proposition in the literature about the need to include actors such as residents in the discussion on informality, this research approach was applied to delve into the accounts of the participants to understand their meanings and experiences in the production of, access to and their everyday lives in their housing environments. Four themes arose from the interpretation of the participants’ accounts: (1) the production of informal housing; (2) permanency versus temporality; (3) networks and relationships; and (4) the overall impact on residents’ everyday lives and well-being. These emerged as significant themes for understanding the perceived well-being of informal housing residents. Residents’ experiences in the Global North and South are indeed different. However, despite the oppressing external conditions and their vulnerability, people in both areas implement psychosocial and physical strategies to improve their housing conditions and well-being. By acknowledging and understanding people’s experiences of informal housing – including those of a positive nature – we gain a deeper comprehension of the processes influencing residents’ well-being.Key messagesAside from negative impacts, informal housing also has positive impacts on residents’ well-being.Residents implement psychosocial and physical strategies to improve their informal housing experience, thus improving their perception of their overall well-being.There are meaningful commonalities between the residents’ perceptions of housing and well-being in Caracas and Sydney.","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91352326","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 temporalities of the aspiring global city: a reply to ‘Housing temporalities’ by Lall","authors":"Banashree Banerjee","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16311425174621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16311425174621","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86126970","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":"Slow crisis in Bissau and beyond","authors":"Henrik Vigh","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16348942683000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16348942683000","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes an ethnographic look at processes of long-term and lingering crises. Building on longitudinal and transnational fieldwork with migrants from Bissau, the capital of Guinea- Bissau, it illuminates the ways that crisis may ramify across time and scale, thereby affecting everyday life, social relations and political dynamics. While the concept of ‘slow crisis’ sits uncomfortably within our common understanding of crisis as a momentary aberration and tipping point, the article clarifies how attending to the lingering and wandering effects of the phenomenon may grant us a fuller understanding of its temporality and social life. The article explores the way crisis is lived through a longitudinal study of Guinea-Bissauan migrants in Bissau, Lisbon and Paris. Via an ethnographic case study of a protracted and compound crisis, it illuminates the social deterioration, contraction and fragmentation that define such situations, and points to the common dynamics of crises as continuing critical conditions rather than singular aberrations.","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82402685","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":"Humanitarianism, mobility and kinship: a reply to ‘Chronic crisis and nuclear disaster humanitarianism: recuperation of Chernobyl and Fukushima children in Italy’ by Zhukova","authors":"A. Fechter","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16321295120732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16321295120732","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81001621","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":"Tenure security, housing quality and energy (in)justice in Dhaka’s slums","authors":"Mark L. Jones","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16309935493598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16309935493598","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a causal link from urban poverty, through tenure insecurity and poor-quality housing, to energy injustices for slum dwellers. Impacts of those injustices on residents’ well-being are identified. The prevalent physical manifestation of rapid urbanisation and urban poverty in the Global South is the incidence of slums. This article engages with the academic debate on ‘energy justice’, a relatively nascent field. This article takes a more fine-grained view of energy justice than most previous scholarship, examining the energy experience at a household scale in a specific setting of urban poverty. The contention of this article is that energy injustices prevail in informal settlements not only due to issues of governance and poverty, but also, to a significant degree, as a result of the urban poor being deprived of secure tenure and decent housing. Further, these injustices impact on people’s well-being. The latter point is explored though a capability analysis in a case-study slum in Dhaka. The case-study slum, Kallyanpur Pora Bostee, is a squatter settlement on government land in Dhaka.Key messagesThis article identifies a causality link from urban poverty through tenure insecurity and poor-quality housing to energy injustices for slum dwellers.The provision of affordable, reliable and modern energy to all citizens is enshrined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, an aspiration which must include slum dwellers.This article establishes that energy injustices prevail in informal settlements from not only issues of governance and poverty but also, to a significant degree, as a result of the urban poor being deprived of secure tenure and decent housing.","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77204106","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}