A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Housing Violence in the Post-welfare Context
Authors: Rannila Päivi
Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Housing, Theory and Society
Journal name in source: HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY
Journal acronym: HOUS THEORY SOC
Volume: 39
Issue: 2
First page : 238
Last page: 255
Number of pages: 17
ISSN: 1403-6096
eISSN: 1651-2278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2021.1925340
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2021.1925340
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/59542890
Housing transformation creates conditions or situations that may be experienced as "everyday violence", which is present in mundane life but may not necessarily be recognized as violence. This article argues that post-welfare housing violence differs from other housing violence while being affected by the society's welfare state ideologies. Violence may develop slowly or manifest itself in subtle ways when the rights to own, use, and develop housing estates are debated. By analysing activists' struggle against the privatization of a Swedish suburb, the article elaborates on the forms of post-welfare housing violence, and the ways in which violence is made visible and contested. The analysis reveals how post-welfare housing violence is normalized and slow violence, and how the by-product of the welfare state history is the effort to invisibilise violence in situations that were earlier public responsibility.
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