Community-led Housing: Postcapitalist perspectives

后资本主义是一个寻求解决资本主义危机的项目。该项目寻求解构资本主义的霸权，并识别、滋养和发展各种社会化和以公地为基础的做法。在初级阶段，后资本主义忽视了财产关系。这项研究试图通过考虑社区主导的住房运动(CLH)是否代表了一个后资本主义住房部门来纠正这种忽视。CLH是一项非营利性的去改造住房运动，原则上反映了后资本主义理论，因此可以用来对后资本主义财产关系进行理论分析。CLH潜在地构建了公地，提供了社会价值，并培育了非资本主义关系--所有这些都是后资本主义理论的特征。然而，它是在与资本主义交织在一起的混乱的社会空间现实中发展起来的；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，并做出资金和技能决定，以重新制定基本原则、组织模式和治理。CLH与资本主义市场经济和专业化的互动是不可避免的；商业思维必须与理想主义愿景和草根组织一起运作，比如与营利性开发商的合作。这如何影响CLH集团，以及它们与后资本主义的潜在联系是模棱两可的；CLH集团是保持其非资本主义取向，还是经历向资本主义住房供应的同构发展？如果CLH要被用来对后资本主义财产关系进行理论化，就需要理解这些经验现实。研究问题本项目寻求推进后资本主义项目和CLH之间的有趣联系，同时承认经验上的细微差别，并提出以下研究问题：社区主导的住房是否代表了后资本主义住房部门的潜力？方法将通过定性方法对英国CLH的中心布里斯托尔的四个CLH群体进行研究，包括访谈和调查。本研究将通过批判现实主义的方法，使用经验主义来审问理论，而不是用理论来解释经验主义。CLH集团的组织为了调查这些集团的组织，这项研究将考虑它们与查特顿和普西所定义的后资本主义转型的以下三个领域的一致性：将封闭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的劳动转变为“对社会有益的工作”将对这些集团的原则、劳动形式、财产模式和组织设计进行评估。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集团的运营如何与利益相关者和合作伙伴在交付、住房管理和土地收购方面进行合作将是这里分析的重点。因此，这一维度将考虑合作伙伴、站点和集团之间的组织间关系，这些合作伙伴、站点和集团利用水平网络经济等理论、吉布森-格雷厄姆的多样化社区经济和实践理论来运作布里斯托尔的CLH。尤其令人感兴趣的是，布里斯托尔的CLH是否呈现了一种与地形相反的、相互联系的、产生结构性变化的社会复制的局部冲突。研究贡献这些发现将填补后资本主义思维中的一个空白，同时说明CLH的潜力，并加强构成布里斯托尔CLH的关系和实践。

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.