Outputs (7)

The emotional economy of housing (2008)
Journal Article
Christie, H., & Smith, S. (2008). The emotional economy of housing. Environment and Planning A, 40(10), 2296-2312. https://doi.org/10.1068/a39358

This paper offers an interpretation of the role of emotions in animating housing markets which complements more traditional economic and behavioural studies of locally based house-price inflation. Looking to debates within social psychology and cultu... Read More about The emotional economy of housing.

Owner occupation: At home with a hybrid of money and materials (2007)
Journal Article
Smith, S. (2008). Owner occupation: At home with a hybrid of money and materials. Environment and Planning A, 40(3), 520-535. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38423

This paper is about the changing character of housing assets, owned homes, and perhaps owner-occupiers themselves. It draws from two studies of UK homebuyers, whose lives are entangled in the materiality of housing, the meaning of home, and the mobil... Read More about Owner occupation: At home with a hybrid of money and materials.

Performing (housing) markets (2006)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Munro, M., & Christie, H. (2006). Performing (housing) markets. Urban Studies, 43(1), 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980500409276

This paper offers an interpretation of how housing markets work which complements more traditional economic approaches. Building on a wider movement within cultural economy and economic sociology, it considers how (housing) markets are variously perf... Read More about Performing (housing) markets.

The strange geography of health inequalities (2005)
Journal Article
Smith, S., & Easterlow, D. (2005). The strange geography of health inequalities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(2), 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00159.x

Place is undoubtedly relevant to health, and geography is a central character in the story of how rich societies handle inequalities in death and disease. But the text is incomplete, its scope limited by a too-delicate encounter between research and... Read More about The strange geography of health inequalities.

States, markets and an ethic of care (2005)
Journal Article
Smith, S. (2005). States, markets and an ethic of care. Political Geography, 24(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2004.10.006

The politics of welfare navigate between the entitlements dispensed within a shrinking sphere of ‘care-full’ state activity, and a growing demand for the informal, unpaid labour of caring individuals. Meanwhile, the dispassionate workings of the mark... Read More about States, markets and an ethic of care.

Housing for health: does the market work? (2004)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Easterlow, D., & Munro, M. (2004). Housing for health: does the market work?. Environment and Planning A, 36(4), 579-600. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3672

Markets are mechanisms for distributing goods and services according to people's ability to pay. They are also investment vehicles which can be used to secure financial gains as economies expand. Housing markets embrace both these features, and are p... Read More about Housing for health: does the market work?.

Housing for health: can the market care? (2004)
Journal Article
Easterlow, D., & Smith, S. (2004). Housing for health: can the market care?. Environment and Planning A, 36(6), 999-1017. https://doi.org/10.1068/a36178

For over two decades British public policy has been fuelled by the notion that markets are the most effective way to accumulate and distribute resources. Such markets are driven by price, respond to ability to pay, and are not, for the most part, see... Read More about Housing for health: can the market care?.