Somerville, Peter and Knowles, Andrew (1991) The difference that tenure makes. Housing Studies, 6 (2). pp. 112-130. ISSN 0267-3037
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Abstract
This paper argues that housing tenures cannot be reduced to either production relations or consumption relations. Instead, they need to be understood as modes of housing distribution, and as having complex and dynamic relations with social classes. Building on a critique of both the productionist and the consumptionist literature, as well as of formalist accounts of the relations between tenure and class, the paper attempts to lay the foundations for a new theory of housing tenure. In order to do this, a new theory of class is articulated, which is then used to throw new light on the nature of class-tenure relations.
Additional Information: | This paper argues that housing tenures cannot be reduced to either production relations or consumption relations. Instead, they need to be understood as modes of housing distribution, and as having complex and dynamic relations with social classes. Building on a critique of both the productionist and the consumptionist literature, as well as of formalist accounts of the relations between tenure and class, the paper attempts to lay the foundations for a new theory of housing tenure. In order to do this, a new theory of class is articulated, which is then used to throw new light on the nature of class-tenure relations. |
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Keywords: | housing rights |
Subjects: | L Social studies > L410 UK Social Policy L Social studies > L400 Social Policy |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Social & Political Sciences |
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ID Code: | 3142 |
Deposited On: | 02 Aug 2010 14:43 |
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