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Common Sense as Political Struggle: Asserting the Right to Home Following the Grenfell Tower Fire

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The Grenfell Tower fire is a tragic manifestation of the brutality of the neoliberal conditionality of home. The systematic devaluing of the lives of residents in the social housing block is the result of stigmatisation-fuelled neglect. This article explores the ideological formation of the ‘ideals’ of home ownership, asserting a right to home as a means to resist the ‘unequal distribution of precarity’ that defines neoliberal formations of home.

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  • Sarah Leaney, 2022. "Common Sense as Political Struggle: Asserting the Right to Home Following the Grenfell Tower Fire," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 27(4), pages 1113-1121, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:1113-1121
    DOI: 10.1177/1360780418819010
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