ABSTRACT

Neoliberal ideologies and associated market imperatives are widely identified as the predominant sets of ethics transforming social housing in western liberal welfare states. This paper advances a politics of care in social housing, identifying relational caring as an alternative political ethic operating in this space resisting and reworking governing logics. Bringing governmentality informed conceptualizations of resistance together with feminist care ethics the paper makes two key interventions. First, it expands existing knowledge of how housing managers resist power structures within organizations to show that care also sustains resistance to sectoral transformation. Second, it examines how housing managers vest care in market practices. Asking how “caring qualities” may be extracted from market relations, the paper argues that market-driven transformation can, in some circumstances, bolster caring capacity. These ideas are advanced through analysis of staff practices in not-for-profit housing providers in Sydney, Australia.

摘要

新自由主义意识形态和相关的市场命令被广泛认为是改变西方自由福利国家社会住房的主要伦理学。本文提出了社会住房方面的关怀政治，将关系关怀确定为在此空间中抵制和改造治理逻辑的替代性政治伦理。将政府知情的抵抗概念与女性主义的护理伦理相结合，本文提出了两个关键干预措施。首先，它扩展了有关住房管理者如何抵制组织内部权力结构的现有知识，以表明护理也可以维持对部门的抵制。转型。其次，它研究了住房管理者如何在市场惯例中给予照顾。当询问如何从市场关系中提取“关怀品质”时，论文认为，在某些情况下，市场驱动的转型可以增强关怀能力。通过分析澳大利亚悉尼非营利性住房提供者的员工行为，提出了这些想法。