Abstract
This paper relates the governance of anti-social behaviour in the UK to a wider
policy conceptualisation of social housing as a flawed and problematic form of housing consumption. Drawing on the theoretical work of Bourdieu and Foucault, the paper identifies how the habitus of housing consumption is shaped by acts of governance including classification, legitimisation, normalisation and targeted intervention. The paper argues that dominant governance discourses relate problems arising within social housing to assumed distinctions in the cultural, social and symbolic capital ascribed to commodified and ‘branded’ housing tenures, thereby marginalising the importance of differential access to economic capital in the conceptualisation of UK housing policy.
policy conceptualisation of social housing as a flawed and problematic form of housing consumption. Drawing on the theoretical work of Bourdieu and Foucault, the paper identifies how the habitus of housing consumption is shaped by acts of governance including classification, legitimisation, normalisation and targeted intervention. The paper argues that dominant governance discourses relate problems arising within social housing to assumed distinctions in the cultural, social and symbolic capital ascribed to commodified and ‘branded’ housing tenures, thereby marginalising the importance of differential access to economic capital in the conceptualisation of UK housing policy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 213-232 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Housing and the Built Environment |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2003 |
Keywords
- anti-social behaviour, branding, consumption, cultural capital, governmentality, habitus, housing tenure, social capital, symbolic capital