Squalor
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2022
177 pages
978-1-78821-389-9 (ISBN)
Description
British society is increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots. Housing epitomizes this division with spiralling rents, exorbitant prices, lack of council provision, poorly maintained stock, and polluted cities with ever decreasing green space. Daniel Renwick and Robbie Shilliam provide a recent history of squalor culminating in the Grenfell Tower fire. In doing so they reveal a profound political failure to provide fair and just solutions to shelter - the most basic of human needs. Renwick and Shilliam argue that agents of change exist within those populations presently damned by a racist and class-riven system of housing provision.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle Upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78821-389-9 (9781788213899)
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Daniel Renwick | Robbie Shilliam
Squalor
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Persons
Daniel Renwick is a writer, youth-worker and videographer. He lives in London.
Robbie Shilliam is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He was previously Professor of International Relations at Queen Mary University of London.
Content
Introduction
1. A moral history of squalor
2. Housing policy and national reform
3. A postwar consensus?
4. Demolishing slums, building up
5. The struggle for the city
6. The right to buy
7. Organized negligence
8. Twenty-first-century squalor
9. Social murder
