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Dwelling justice: locating settler relations in research and activism on stolen land

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  • Libby Porter
  • David Kelly

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There is a general consensus now in Australia that we are in the grip of a severe housing crisis. The characteristics of spiralling housing costs and deepening precarity are unfolding in a context of the systematic managed decline of public housing as a critical social infrastructure, such that the capacity to make and find ‘home’ is thinning every day. Yet in a settler-colony, such as Australia, the struggle against housing injustice is set inside an already violent relationship of un-homing that creates the very conditions for others to make home. Reckoning with this monstrous dilemma, of the politics of dwelling justice on stolen land, is the focus of this essay, which springs from our own experience and failure to fully comprehend the ways that our housing research and activism works to reinforce settler colonial logics of dwelling on stolen land.

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  • Libby Porter & David Kelly, 2023. "Dwelling justice: locating settler relations in research and activism on stolen land," International Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 817-835, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:817-835
    DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2132461
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