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Housing, property and struggles: a global cartography (NON OFFERTO nell'a.a. 2025/2026)
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Housing, property and struggles: a global cartography
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Anno accademico 2025/2026
- Codice attività didattica
- INT1565
- Docente
- Mara Ferreri (Titolare)
- Corso di studio
- Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Geografia e Scienze Territoriali (LM-80)
- Anno
- 2° anno
- Periodo
- Primo semestre
- Tipologia
- Affine o integrativo
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD attività didattica
- M-GGR/02 - geografia economico-politica
- Erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Frequenza
- Obbligatoria
- Tipologia esame
- Scritto più orale obbligatorio
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
The course intends to provide an introduction to the study of global geographies of housing and related struggles, explicitly in relation to property relations and urbanization processes. During the course, students are expected to develop their capacity to critically interpret social, economic, and political dynamics related to issues of housing and ‘home’, using concepts and methodologies from Urban, Economic and Cultural Geography and from Housing Studies. The course will combine political economic concerns (e.g. on tenure relations, financialization, gentrification) with an appreciation of the plural geographical approaches to housing and property, and will engage with scholarship on different forms of social movement and political mobilizations against housing inequalities and for alternatives around the globe.
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course, the student will gain knowledge of fundamental geographical approaches to housing, property relations, and struggles, particularly in relation to urbanization; understand critical issues in geographical research concerning ‘home’ and dwelling; understand the significance of place-specific intersections (e.g. gender, race, migration status) for housing; develop an understanding of global differences concerning housing issues and social movement organising.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, the student will be able to critically grasp representations of housing ‘crises’ in the contemporary world; use the transversal skills learnt, particularly autonomy of judgement and oral communication.
Autonomy of judgement
At the end of the course, the student will know how to connect social, economic and political aspects underlying different contemporary housing processes, particularly in relation to struggles around tenure and urbanization.
Communication skills
At the end of the teaching, the student will be able to discuss the complexity of housing, property and struggles in the contemporary world. This ability will be developed through the active participation of students encouraged in the classroom both during the lecture and the seminars.
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Programma
The programme is organised across 7 weeks of thematic sessions (lectures and seminars), followed by a revision week (week 8) centered on a participatory workshop.
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Modalità di insegnamento
The course is composed of sessions organised thematically and characterised as follows:
- Core lectures (three-hour long each): To provide foundational understandings around critical theory and practice of geographical thinking.
- Seminars (two-hour long each): Guided reading sessions, to offer the opportunity of engaging with key geographical writings and documentary taken from international scholarship. Seminars will be based on key readings provided, and an additional reading list will be provided to students interested in deepening their understanding of the subjects.
- Workshop (three-hour long) in the last part of the course.
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Learning with develop dialogically through interaction among students and with the professor in class. The final evaluation will be through:
- A 1.500-2000 words written essay, which will count for 30% of the final grade, to be focused on one of the themes explored in the course.
- An oral examination, which will count for 70% of the final grade, to be focused on the themes and literatures explored in the course
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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The course does not have a handbook, but a selection of 18 academic papers to be discussed in the seminars, including:
Barenstein, Jennifer Duyne, et al. 2022. ‘Struggles for the Decommodification of Housing: The Politics of Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay and Switzerland’. Housing Studies 37 (6): 955-974.
Blomley, Nicholas. 2016. ‘The Territory of Property’. Progress in Human Geography 40 (5): 593-609.
Ferreri, Mara. 2020. ‘Painted Bullet Holes and Broken Promises: Understanding and Challenging Municipal Dispossession in London’s Public Housing “Decanting”’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44 (6): 1007-;22.
Fields, Desiree. 2018. ‘Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-Led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis’. Economic Geography 94 (2): 118-140.
García-Lamarca, Melissa, and Maria Kaika. 2016. ‘“Mortgaged Lives”: The Biopolitics of Debt and Housing Financialisation’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41 (3): 313-327.
Rolnik, Raquel. 2013. ‘Late Neoliberalism: The Financialization of Homeownership and Housing Rights’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37 (3): 1058-1066.
Vasudevan, Alexander. 2015. ‘The Makeshift City: Towards a Global Geography of Squatting’. Progress in Human Geography 39 (3): 338-359.
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