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Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive

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Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive book

Reinterpreting the Rise and Fall of Public Housing

Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive

DOI link for Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive

Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive book

Reinterpreting the Rise and Fall of Public Housing
ByKathleen Flanagan
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 9 September 2019
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429488108
Pages 210 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429488108
SubjectsBuilt Environment, Social Sciences
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Flanagan, K. (2020). Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429488108

From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded as broken. Contemporary problems with the sustainability, effectiveness and reputation of the Australian public housing system are usually attributed to the influence of neoliberalism. Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive offers a challenge to this established ‘rise and fall’ narrative of post-war housing policy.

Kathleen Flanagan uses Foucauldian ‘archaeology’ to analyse archival evidence from the Australian state of Tasmania. Through this, she reveals that the difference between past and present knowledge about the value, role and purpose of public housing results from a significant discontinuity in the way we think and act in relation to housing policy.

Flanagan describes the complex system of ideas and events that underpinned policy change in Tasmania while telling a story about state housing policy, neoliberalism and history that has resonance for many other places and times. In the process, she shows that the story of public housing is more complicated than the taken-for-granted neoliberal narrative and that this finding has real significance for the dilemmas in public housing policy that face us in the here and now.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

WithKathleen Flanagan

chapter 2|56 pages

The Tenant

WithKathleen Flanagan

chapter 3|44 pages

The Tenancy

WithKathleen Flanagan

chapter 4|57 pages

The Estate

WithKathleen Flanagan

chapter 5|22 pages

Reconfiguration

WithKathleen Flanagan
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