Community-led Housing: Postcapitalist perspectives

后资本主义是一个旨在解决资本主义危机的项目。该项目旨在解构资本主义的霸权，并确定，滋养和发展各种社会化和基于共同点的实践。后资本主义在其初期忽视了财产关系。本研究试图通过考虑社区主导的住房运动（CLH）是否呈现出后资本主义住房部门来弥补这一忽视。CLH是一个非营利的住房运动，原则上反映了后资本主义理论，因此可以用来理论化后资本主义财产关系。CLH潜在地构建了公地，提供了社会价值，并促进了非资本主义关系--所有这些都是后资本主义理论的特征。然而，它正在通过与资本主义相关联的混乱的社会空间现实发展;这些现实可能会侵蚀与后资本主义的结盟。例如，融资或土地收购等增长障碍导致CLH集团寻求合作伙伴关系，并做出重新制定基本原则，组织和治理模式的资金和技能决策。与资本主义市场经济和专业化的互动对CLH来说是不可避免的;商业思维必须与理想主义的愿景和基层组织一起运作，比如与营利性开发商合作。这如何影响CLH群体及其与后资本主义的潜在联系尚不明确;群体是否保留其非资本主义取向或经历向资本主义住房供应的同构发展？如果CLH要被用来理论化后资本主义的财产关系，这些经验的现实需要被理解。研究本项目旨在推进后资本主义项目和CLH之间的有趣联系，同时承认经验的细微差别，以下研究问题：社区主导的住房是否呈现出后资本主义住房部门的潜力？方法收集的四个CLH组在布里斯托，震中的英国的CLH，将通过定性的方法，包括访谈和调查研究。本研究将通过批判现实主义的方法，用语言学来询问理论，而不是用理论来解释语言学。CLH团体的组织为了询问团体的组织，研究将考虑它们与后资本主义转型的以下三个领域的一致性，正如Chatterton和Pusey所定义的那样：将圈地场所转变为公共场所将商品化实践转变为社会化的非商品化生产将异化劳动转变为“对社会有用的行为”将评估这些团体的原则，劳动形式，财产模式和组织设计。预计该项目将涉及社会资本、共同财产/物品和社区等概念。CLH集团的运作集团如何与利益相关者和合作伙伴合作交付，住房管理和土地征用将是这里分析的重点。因此，这方面将考虑合作伙伴关系，网站和团体之间的组织关系，操作布里斯托的CLH，利用理论，如横向网络经济，吉布森-格雷厄姆的多样化的社区经济和实践理论。特别感兴趣的是，是否布里斯托的CLH提出了一个countertopography，连接，本地化的社会再生产的冲突，产生结构性的changes.Contribution的研究结果将填补后资本主义思想的空白，同时说明CLH的潜力，并加强配置布里斯托的CLH的关系和做法。

Postcapitalism is a project that seeks to resolve the crises of capitalism. The project seeks to deconstruct the hegemony of capitalism and identify, nourish and grow a variety of socialised and commons-based practices. In its infancy, postcapitalism has neglected property relations. This research seeks to remedy this neglect by considering whether the community-led housing movement (CLH) presents a postcapitalist housing sector. CLH, a decommodifying and non-profit housing movement, in principle reflects postcapitalist theory and therefore could be used to theorise postcapitalist property relations. CLH potentially constructs commons, provides social value and fosters non-capitalist relations - all features of postcapitalist theory.Yet, it is developing through messy socio-spatial realities entwined with capitalism; realities that may erode the alignment to postcapitalism. For instance, barriers to growth like finance or land acquisition result in CLH groups pursuing partnerships and making funding and skills decisions that reformulate foundational tenets, modes of organisation and governance. Interaction with the capitalist market economy and professionalisation is inevitable for CLH; commercial mindsets must operate alongside idealist visions and grassroot organisation, like in partnerships with for-profit developers.How this impacts CLH groups and their potential connection to postcapitalism is ambiguous; do groups retain their non-capitalist orientation or undergo an isomorphic development towards capitalistic housing provision? If CLH is going to be used to theorise postcapitalist property relations, these empirical realities need to be understood.Research QuestionThis project seeks to advance the interesting connection between the postcapitalist project and CLH, while acknowledging empirical nuances, with the following research question:Does community-led housing present the potential of a postcapitalist housing sector?MethodA collection of four CLH groups in Bristol, an epicentre of the UK's CLH, will be studied through a qualitative method, including interviews and surveys. This research will use empirics to interrogate theory, rather than use theory to explain empirics, through a critical realist approach.Two dimensions of Bristol's CLH sector will be analysed.1. The organisation of the CLH groupsTo interrogate the groups' organisation, the research will consider their alignment to the following three terrains of postcapitalist transformation, as defined by Chatterton and Pusey:Transforming sites of enclosure into commonsTransforming practices of commodification into socialised non-commodified productionTransforming alienated labour into "socially useful doing"The principles, labour form, property models and organisational design of the groups will be assessed. It is anticipated that the project will engage with concepts like social capital, common property/goods and communing.2. The operation of the CLH groupsHow groups work with stakeholders and partners on their delivery, housing management and land acquisition will be the focus of analysis here. Thus, this dimension will consider the inter-organisational relationships between partnerships, sites and groups that operationalise Bristol's CLH, utilising theory like horizontally-networked economies, Gibson-Graham's diverse community economies and practice theory. Of particular interest is whether Bristol's CLH presents a countertopography, connected, localised conflicts of social reproduction that produce structural change.Contribution of ResearchThe findings will fill a gap in postcapitalist thinking, whilst concurrently illustrating the potential of CLH and strengthening the relationships and practices that configure Bristol's CLH.