Alex
@potentiaspace.bsky.social
Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity.
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
"One of the strengths of the book is the way in which connects the structural and affective"
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"One of the strengths of the book is the way in which connects the structural and affective"
Bellaigue: Working in a 19th century context where there is no welfare state
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Bellaigue: Working in a 19th century context where there is no welfare state
Also need to follow the moral geographies that attach themselves to downward social mobility
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Also need to follow the moral geographies that attach themselves to downward social mobility
Bellaigue: How do we track a process - of pauperisation and decline - that is largely absent from the archives?
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Bellaigue: How do we track a process - of pauperisation and decline - that is largely absent from the archives?
From a policy perspective, book centres need for harm minimisation in wider political discourse
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
From a policy perspective, book centres need for harm minimisation in wider political discourse
Book also tracks the "afterlife of homelessness" and its impact on precarious households
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Book also tracks the "afterlife of homelessness" and its impact on precarious households
"Absurd calculations" of having to navigate debt trap
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"Absurd calculations" of having to navigate debt trap
"Homeless families are being judged as risky tenants rather than vulnerable households"
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Homeless families are being judged as risky tenants rather than vulnerable households"
It also tracks the role that rent arrears play in 'trapping' households in temporary accommodation (and ineligible for social housing)
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It also tracks the role that rent arrears play in 'trapping' households in temporary accommodation (and ineligible for social housing)
Book foregrounds the role that domestic violence plays in intensifying forms of housing insecurity and indebtedness
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Book foregrounds the role that domestic violence plays in intensifying forms of housing insecurity and indebtedness
Book centres indebtedness as key optic for making sense of intensifying housing crisis: "unhoming through debt"
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Book centres indebtedness as key optic for making sense of intensifying housing crisis: "unhoming through debt"
Book tracks the gravitational pull of debt trap and its profound gendering
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Book tracks the gravitational pull of debt trap and its profound gendering
Book explores the elementary brutalities of debt collection
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Book explores the elementary brutalities of debt collection
Book focuses on rent arrears
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Book focuses on rent arrears