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作者

来源

HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY,Vol.35,Issue1,P.1-19

语言

英文

关键字

Housing; Family; Welfare; Liberty; Neoliberalization; Neo-Roman

作者单位

[Welsh, John] Univ Helsinki, Dept Polit & Econ Studies, Snellmaninkatu 14C, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. Welsh, J (reprint author), Univ Helsinki, Dept Polit & Econ Studies, Snellmaninkatu 14C, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. E-Mail: john.welsh@helsinki.fi

摘要

The household as a social formation is being assigned a renewed function in the provision of social welfare via neoliberal austerity politics. Government inaction regarding housing provision is forcing millions of young adults into ''parental co-habitation''. In contrast to the dominant ideological view of the family as a school of liberty through the provision of welfare, this article argues that the dependence of millions of young adults on the parental household is degenerative both for the individual ''recipient'' and for the future democratic character of the polity. Mobilizing a Neo-Roman analysis of Liberty, I argue that housing policy is promoting the long-term creation of ''slaves'' as part of a wider strategy of oligarchic domination. The article seeks to articulate an explicitly political theoretical critique of ''parental co-habitation'' and advocates for directed government action in the area of housing provision to secure the autonomy and independence of a generation otherwise reduced to ''slavishness''.