The Beyond Inhabitation Lab has hosted a tripartite session at the RC21 conference in Santiago, Chile, this July. The session was organised by our members Ana Vilenica, Margherita Grazioli and Michele Lancione.
Under the title “Housing and inhabitation: situated geographies of intersectional struggles“, we hosted 11 scholars from a number of geographies, to explore the intersection of ‘housing’ and ‘inhabitation’. How are urbanites re-doing inhabitation through mundane struggles against historical and contemporary forms of dispossession?
Key themes of this session included:
I. Empirically grounded conceptualisation of the contemporary struggle for inhabitation
II . Historical reconstructions of intersectional urban housing struggles
III . Ethnographic account of forms of racialised dispossession and related politics of resistance
We thank all participants to the collective conversation that ensued, and we look forward to more of the same at future gatherings!