2024/09/10 by Michele Lancione, AbdouMaliq Simone · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #Urban and Rural Development Challenges #Water Governance and Infrastructure
paper · doi:10.1177/02637758241274636
openalex publication_date 2024/09/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Literatures and organising show us how, in contemporary racial financial capitalism, housing is formed through dispossessive histories and geographies. Here, we query how these enter into play in the visual regimes through which housing is seen and experienced. For if the visual realm is as much a construct as any other housing matter, finding a grammar to tap into its workings might become handy when its violent outcomes come to the fore. What is reproduced in the visual regimes of housing? What is offered and taken anyway? What might never be seen, and by whom? The article offers a tentative analytical approach to questioning what we call dispossessed exposures: the (en)visioning of homely futures that are deprived, already in the social construct of seeing with the house, the possibility of radical care for and of habitation. These ideas are unpacked through reflection on two films: Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables and Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouihl’s Gagarine. We offer these reasonings as a contribution to ongoing conversations in the renewed field of housing justice scholarship.