The politics of home-making: A gender-based approach to self-help housing
For dwellers of informal settlements the value of housing is not only determined by its material aspects, but also by immaterial and political elements. The theoretical notion of ‘home’ by feminist geographers has gradually been introduced in housing studies as a way to counteract the view of housin...
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oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-629242019-05-15T17:37:32Z The politics of home-making: A gender-based approach to self-help housing Lo político de hacer hogar: una mirada de género a la vivienda autoconstruida Ossul-Vermehren, Ignacia For dwellers of informal settlements the value of housing is not only determined by its material aspects, but also by immaterial and political elements. The theoretical notion of ‘home’ by feminist geographers has gradually been introduced in housing studies as a way to counteract the view of housing just as a material need, as well as to introduce a gender approach to housing. Although women have played a key role in accessing housing in Chile, there has been little recognition of this in literature or in practice. The paper presents four aspects of the feminist literature of home in order to discuss a gender approach to the production of informal housing. In order to do this, the paper presents four dimensions: home-making and the emotions that drive it; home-making through the intersectionality of identities; home-making at different territorial scales; and home-making and its political dimension. The dimensions are discussed through a gender-approached research in informal settlements in Viña del Mar, using qualitative methodology with participatory photography and life stories. Para los habitantes de asentamientos informales el valor de la vivienda no solo está mediado por sus elementos materiales, sino también por los aspectos inmateriales y políticos de esta. La noción teórica de ‘hogar’ de las geógrafas feministas ha sido gradualmente introducida en los estudios urbanos a modo de contrarrestar la visión de la vivienda popular solo como una necesidad material, así como también para discutir la vivienda desde una aproximación de género. A pesar de que en Chile las pobladoras de asentamientos informales han jugado un rol clave en la consecución de vivienda, existe poco reconocimiento de aquello tanto en la literatura como en la práctica. El artículo presenta cuatro aspectos de la literatura feminista de hogar para discutir una aproximación de género en procesos de producción de hábitat informal. Para ello se examinan las siguientes dimensiones: hacer hogar y los afectos que lo movilizan; hacer hogar a través de la interseccionalidad de identidades; hacer hogar en distintas escalas territoriales; y, finalmente, la dimensión política de hacer hogar. Se discuten las dimensiones en una investigación en asentamientos informales de Viña del Mar utilizando una metodología cualitativa, a través de fotografía participativa e historias de vida. Revista INVI 2018-08-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62924 Revista INVI; Vol. 33 Núm. 93 (2018); 9-51 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62924/66740 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62924/66769 Derechos de autor 2018 Revista INVI |
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For dwellers of informal settlements the value of housing is not only determined by its material aspects, but also by immaterial and political elements. The theoretical notion of ‘home’ by feminist geographers has gradually been introduced in housing studies as a way to counteract the view of housing just as a material need, as well as to introduce a gender approach to housing. Although women have played a key role in accessing housing in Chile, there has been little recognition of this in literature or in practice. The paper presents four aspects of the feminist literature of home in order to discuss a gender approach to the production of informal housing. In order to do this, the paper presents four dimensions: home-making and the emotions that drive it; home-making through the intersectionality of identities; home-making at different territorial scales; and home-making and its political dimension. The dimensions are discussed through a gender-approached research in informal settlements in Viña del Mar, using qualitative methodology with participatory photography and life stories. |
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