TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hannah A1 - Mackert, Jürgen ED - Mackert, Jürgen ED - Turner, Bryan S. ED - Wolf, Hannah T1 - Introduction BT - Urban warfare – neo-liberalism’s assault on democratic life in the city JF - Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Vol. 2. Urban Neo-liberalisation N2 - The processes of neo-liberalisation, coined as ‘actually existing neo-liberalism’ are by their very nature variegated and context-specific and can appear in multi-faceted and contradictory forms. Consequentially, sociological reflection has tried to conceptualise ongoing processes of transforming the city under the concept of urban neo-liberalism which is generally understood as the contextually specific and path-dependent realisation of neo-liberal restructuration projects, embedded in varying social, political, economic, and cultural ‘regulatory landscapes’. As much as neo-liberalism as ideology and political programme aims at erasing any democratic participation in society, its proponents have taken sides pushing ahead the re-conceptualisation of the city as a market with the right of the stronger ‘to do down the weaker’. The city has become a focal point for neo-liberalism’s war against democracy and citizens. Turning social relations into market transactions in order to restructure cities is not a new idea from the neo-liberals but one of the non-negotiable dogmas of their religion called science. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-42926-228-9 SN - 978-0-429-55288-5 SN - 978-0-429-56182-5 SN - 978-0-429-55735-4 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hannah A1 - Mackert, Jürgen T1 - Introduction JF - Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis N2 - The processes of neo-liberalisation, coined as ‘actually existing neo-liberalism’ are by their very nature variegated and context-specific and can appear in multi-faceted and contradictory forms. Consequentially, sociological reflection has tried to conceptualise ongoing processes of transforming the city under the concept of urban neo-liberalism which is generally understood as the contextually specific and path-dependent realisation of neo-liberal restructuration projects, embedded in varying social, political, economic, and cultural ‘regulatory landscapes’. As much as neo-liberalism as ideology and political programme aims at erasing any democratic participation in society, its proponents have taken sides pushing ahead the re-conceptualisation of the city as a market with the right of the stronger ‘to do down the weaker’. The city has become a focal point for neo-liberalism’s war against democracy and citizens. Turning social relations into market transactions in order to restructure cities is not a new idea from the neo-liberals but one of the non-negotiable dogmas of their religion called science. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-429-26228-9 SN - 978-0-367-20564-5 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hannah T1 - Permanent liminality? BT - Housing insecurity and home N2 - After more than eight years of multifaceted crisis and extreme austerity policies, the programmes of financial assistance to Greece ended in August 2018, only to be replaced by a strict surveillance plan which leaves little room for manoeuvre towards more socially sensitive policies. In this context, the paper focuses on three major issues of argument between the creditors and the Greek government: property ownership and taxation, reduction of pensions, and continued austerity. Based on research in Athens and starting from the premise that behind figures and statistics lie embodied subjects, the paper discusses these issues drawing from particular people’s experiences. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-429262-28-9 SN - 978-0-367-20564-5 SP - 99 EP - 118 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hannah T1 - Es ist, als ob der Stuhl wackelt BT - entsichertes Wohnen und Zuhause JF - Figurationen der Wohnungsnot Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.beltz.de/de/nc/verlagsgruppe-beltz/gesamtprogramm.html?isbn=9783779951667 SN - 978-3-7799-3919-1 SN - 978-3-7799-5166-7 SP - 116 EP - 137 PB - Beltz CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hannah T1 - Introduction JF - The condition of democracy : Volume 2: Contesting citizenship Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-367-74537-0 SN - 978-0-367-74536-3 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hannah T1 - Trying as hard as i can BT - narratives of failure and success in the experience of housing insecurity JF - Human arenas : HA : an interdisciplinary journal of psychology, culture, and meaning N2 - 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. KW - Housing crisis KW - Home KW - Individualization KW - Governmentality KW - Liminality KW - Communitas Y1 - 2022 SN - 2522-5804 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-021-00268-1 SN - 2522-5790 PB - Springer CY - New York ER -