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UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post-Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research ( IF 3.732 ) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 , DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13213
Jenny Preece , John Flint

In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the centrality of waiting in experiences of unhoming, which act as a mechanism of domination over a group newly subject to a specific manifestation of marginality; this mechanism has particular significance for understanding the differentiated dynamics of urban displacement. In this article we utilize interviews with 31 residents of residential flats in England living in buildings affected by fire safety defects, identified following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London in which 72 individuals died. We argue that research on urban dispossession needs to be attentive to distinctive processes and consequences of—and resistance to—unhoming. The experiences of newly affected populations unmask the underpinning precarity and unequal power relations of housing-based urban citizenship.

中文翻译:

离家、创伤和等待:英格兰后格伦菲尔建筑安全危机

在这篇文章中,我们试图加深对以前不认为容易受到此类过程影响的人群的离家行为的理解。我们研究了城市边缘性新兴空间中的特殊形式的创伤,这种创伤是由于长期公民与国家关系的破裂以及迄今为止已知和可预测的世界中对家园的习惯性取向的破裂而产生的。在这篇文章中,我们强调了等待在离家经历中的中心地位,它充当了对新近受到边缘性特定表现的群体的统治机制;这一机制对于理解城市流离失所的差异化动态具有特别重要的意义。在本文中,我们采访了英格兰住宅区的 31 名居民,他们所居住的建筑物存在消防安全缺陷,这些缺陷是在 2017 年伦敦格伦菲尔塔火灾导致 72 人死亡后发现的。我们认为,关于城市剥夺的研究需要关注“离家”的独特过程和后果以及抵制。新受影响人口的经历揭示了以住房为基础的城市公民的不稳定和不平等的权力关系。
更新日期:2023-10-02
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