Elara Shurety
@elaraks.bsky.social
Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective
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Elara Shurety
@elaraks.bsky.social
· Dec 24
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Elara Shurety
#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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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...
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/crafting-computational-counter-media/"
June 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#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
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/craftin...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/craftin...
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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/...
June 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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/...
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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.
#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.
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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.
Reposted by Elara Shurety
#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.
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org
June 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#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.
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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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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#housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing
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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...
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-and-hands-united/"
June 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-a...
#housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-a...
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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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radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...
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...
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June 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...
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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.
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
June 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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.
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
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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:
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
"..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:
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal
Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence
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June 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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:
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
"..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:
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
❤️🔥 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...
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...
June 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
❤️🔥 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...
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...
Reposted by Elara Shurety
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
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
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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!
🥁 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!
June 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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!
🥁 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!
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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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 24, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Elara Shurety
The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.
May 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.
Reposted by Elara Shurety
🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
May 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
The Radical Housing Journal is now on bsky – follow us here @radicalhousing.bsky.social ❤️🔥
The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.
The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.
April 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Radical Housing Journal is now on bsky – follow us here @radicalhousing.bsky.social ❤️🔥
The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.
The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.
Reposted by Elara Shurety
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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#ShacAction
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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 …
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February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
shaction.org/2025/02/19/c...
#ShacAction
shaction.org/2025/02/19/c...
@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!
February 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
@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!
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Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)
January 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)
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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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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/...
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...)
(AKA, it's the first Monday of January and I'm looking for ways to leave the UK...)
January 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...)
(AKA, it's the first Monday of January and I'm looking for ways to leave the UK...)
Reposted by Elara Shurety
I demand to be named as a co-author…
(seriously though, looks like an important piece!)
(seriously though, looks like an important piece!)
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 30, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I demand to be named as a co-author…
(seriously though, looks like an important piece!)
(seriously though, looks like an important piece!)