Elara Shurety

Crafting computational counter-media » Radical Housing Journal This piece is an update on the community-based design process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (AEMP) interactive digital story map documenting housing (in)justice during the Covid-19 pandem...

#Update 'Crafting Computational Counter-Media: Spatial Story Design of Housing (In)justice and Archival Challenges' by @bretthalperin.bsky.social on the community-based process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's interactive digital story map #Covid19
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New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Vacancy isn’t just empty space—it’s a money-making machine. In this piece for @radicalhousing.bsky.social, I break down how landlord power, state policy, and Greece’s deep-rooted attachment to family ownership turn vacancy into one of the country’s most profitable ventures.

Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy » Radical Housing Journal This paper reinterprets urban vacancy in Greece not as market failure, but as a calculated tool for profit. Focusing on Thessaloniki, it argues that vacancy is produced, maintained, repurposed, and re...

#LongRead "Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy" @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social reinterprets vacancy as a tool for profit, reinforced by state policies, landlord lobbying & #Greece’s entrenched system of possessive #familialism.

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Homes and hands united » Radical Housing Journal This paper examines the strategic alliance between the Tenant Solidarity Working Group (TSWG)—a graduate-student tenant union—and CUPE Local 3906, representing Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Research A...

Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Homes and Hands United" examines the strategic alliance between a graduate-student tenant union & Teaching and Research Assistants at McMaster University, Hamilton #Ontario

#housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing

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Between normalisation, critique and contestation » Radical Housing Journal Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with tenants facing mass cancellations due to renovation or demolition in Basel, Switzerland, this paper analyses the relation between landlords’ plans a...

Issue 7.1 #LongRead by Luisa Gehriger "Between normalisation, critique and contestation: Why tenants threatened by displacement resist or comply with landlords' plans" draws on a five-years research with tenants facing renovation and demolition in #Basel

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In Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing", Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey & Shaun French discuss the challenges of organising in, against-and-beyond social housing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns.

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Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence

From the #Editorial of issue 7.1

"..at the heart of authoritarianism is a desire for absolute control over people, land and territory—a desire closely tied to questions of property and who has rights to dwell and inhabit in which place."

To read more:
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❤️‍🔥 Issue 7.1 of the @radicalhousing.bsky.social out today! ❤️‍🔥

It's been a pleasure & a privilege to work with the RHJ collective & some very talented authors on producing this rich issue.

Check out some of the articles within, and read our editorial here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/editori...

Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.

Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁

"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz

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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance

Hello #radicalhousing readers & supporters!

🥁 Next week the RHJ collective will launch its new issue 7.1 bringing together insights & reflections from scholars and activists across the world on #housingprecarity, #tenantsorganizing, land and property #vacancy, & #resistance to #displacement!

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould

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We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.

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Social Housing Action CampaignClarion’s Victimisation Culture SHAC has heard many accounts of victimising by landlords when things go wrong. Typically, this arises when tenants and residents report leaks, damp and mould in their homes and are told that their …

The giant housing association Clarion Housing Group is trying to victimise those who complain of service failures, but our members are fighting back and won't be intimidated.

#ShacAction

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@kwajo.bsky.social I am a PhD student looking to interview Eastfields, High Path, & Ravensbury residents (past and present) who have experienced damp and mould. Would you consider sharing this poster? Thank you!

Devastation: aerial views of Gaza after ceasefire – in pictures Months of Israeli bombardment have turned buildings into piles of rubble and ash

Shocking aerial images of urbicide in Gaza

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A car sitting at a desk

Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)

MOULD. It's political.

Important new open access paper by Elara Shurety on housing, mould and toxicity

Elara is a King's College London PhD candidate I supervise with Phil Hubbard (@gypjh2000.bsky.social) in the Urban Futures research group

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Seeing as it's the new year, I'll begin by resharing my paper which was published at a very inopportune time (Xmas Eve) – on mouldy housing, race, slow violence, and "toxic" black mould 🦠🦠. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are these all from Manchester??? Looks unreal

Haha great minds! yes, ik I can apply for funding through my DTP, but from what I can tell I need to have already organised the institutional visit (at least in principle) – how did you do that bit???

I know PhD funder will extend my funding for an "Overseas Institutional Visit", & I believe give me some £ for travel and living costs, but a bit confused on how you actually go about organising such a thing

You know when PhD students spend a few months at a different uni (often in different countries) – how do they get to do this? What are they doing? Are there specific programmes? Where do you find them? Etc

(AKA, it's the first Monday of January and I'm looking for ways to leave the UK...)

I demand to be named as a co-author…

(seriously though, looks like an important piece!)

Haha - ngl I kept coming across your work when searching “mould” + “geography” only to be disappointed it was not *about* mould

Published over xmas (thanks publishers!) but very excited to see Elara Shurety's first paper from her PhD studies of domestic mould. Important stuff and there is a lot more to come! bsky.app/profile/elar...