The Politics of Crisis: Deconstructing the Dominant Narratives of the Housing Crisis
The Politics of Crisis: Deconstructing the Dominant Narratives of the Housing Crisis
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DOI：
10.1111/anti.12585
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发表时间：
2019-11-03
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通讯作者：
Ormerod, Emma
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作者：
Heslop, Julia;Ormerod, Emma
本文考虑了自2008年英国银行业危机以来，住房危机的主流叙事是如何被创造出来的，以及以住房危机的名义采取了哪些行动。本文对“危机”一词进行了解构，强调其含义已经从一个关键时刻演变为一个必须历史地理解的长期叙述。通过对住房和政党政治政策、媒体和智库报告的话语分析，我们认为，政府和其他人将住房危机视为住房供应限制和过度监管的结果——这些叙述证明了随后旨在支撑住房和金融体系的政策行动是合理的，为住房商品化、放松管制和金融化开辟了新的途径，并重新复制了危机。然而，我们注意到，这些叙事也可以被打破，并且可以为新的叙事创造空间，这些叙事将住房危机重新聚焦于不平等和阶级分化。
This paper considers how dominant narratives of the housing crisis, since the 2008 banking crisis in England, have been created and what actions taken in its name. The paper deconstructs the term "crisis", highlighting that its meaning has evolved from a critical moment to a protracted narrative which must be understood historically. Through discourse analysis into housing and party political policy, media and think tank reports, we argue that the employment of housing crisis by the government and others perceives it as an outcome of housing supply constraints and over-regulation-narratives that have justified subsequent policy actions aimed at propping up the housing and financial systems, opening new avenues for housing commodification, deregulation and financialisation and reproducing crisis anew. However, we note that these narratives can also break down and space can be created for the articulation of new narratives which refocus housing crises as emerging from inequality and class divisions.