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“Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity
The housing crisis represents a liminal experience: a loss of the taken-for-granted and the suspension of ontological security has put individuals in a situation of potentiality in which both conceptions of home and of personal identity are open to transformation. Empirically assessing this liminal...
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description | The housing crisis represents a liminal experience: a loss of the taken-for-granted and the suspension of ontological security has put individuals in a situation of potentiality in which both conceptions of home and of personal identity are open to transformation. Empirically assessing this liminal transition allows us to understand the refiguration processes of both home and subjectivities. This has both conceptual and political implications: with ongoing individualization of responsibility in virtually all spheres of social life, it is no longer possible to assume that the private sphere of home is an arena in which individuals are free and secured from societal forces, pressures, and compulsions. Instead, we might find ourselves in a transient liminal period in which the very meaning and psycho-social foundation of home are being transformed. To understand these processes is not only an epistemological but also a political endeavor, for only by understanding the psycho-social implications of the housing crisis can we acknowledge its embeddedness in and relation to processes of societal individualization, as well as the potential to open up pathways to the emergence of a liminal communitas. |
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spelling | pubmed-88531762022-02-18 “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity Wolf, Hannah Hu Arenas Arena of Subjectivity The housing crisis represents a liminal experience: a loss of the taken-for-granted and the suspension of ontological security has put individuals in a situation of potentiality in which both conceptions of home and of personal identity are open to transformation. Empirically assessing this liminal transition allows us to understand the refiguration processes of both home and subjectivities. This has both conceptual and political implications: with ongoing individualization of responsibility in virtually all spheres of social life, it is no longer possible to assume that the private sphere of home is an arena in which individuals are free and secured from societal forces, pressures, and compulsions. Instead, we might find ourselves in a transient liminal period in which the very meaning and psycho-social foundation of home are being transformed. To understand these processes is not only an epistemological but also a political endeavor, for only by understanding the psycho-social implications of the housing crisis can we acknowledge its embeddedness in and relation to processes of societal individualization, as well as the potential to open up pathways to the emergence of a liminal communitas. Springer International Publishing 2022-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8853176/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42087-021-00268-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Arena of Subjectivity Wolf, Hannah “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity |
title | “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity |
title_full | “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity |
title_fullStr | “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity |
title_full_unstemmed | “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity |
title_short | “Trying as Hard as I Can”– Narratives of Failure and Success in the Experience of Housing Insecurity |
title_sort | “trying as hard as i can”– narratives of failure and success in the experience of housing insecurity |
topic | Arena of Subjectivity |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853176/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42087-021-00268-1 |
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