Challenging the Norm? The 'EthoPolitics' of Low Cost Homeownership in Scotland

Kim McKee

doi:10.1177/0042098010396238

Challenging the Norm? The 'EthoPolitics' of Low Cost Homeownership in Scotland

Kim McKee

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Abstract

Influenced by Nikolas Rose’s concept of ‘ethopolitics’ this paper explores attitudes to home and tenure amongst low-cost homeowners in Scotland. In doing so, it seeks to highlight the contested nature of contemporary governing practices and the way in which ‘governable subjects’ can challenge, reinterpret and resist dominant policy discourses, which promote homeownership as the preferred tenure of choice, whilst simultaneously pathologising and problematising social housing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3399-3413
Number of pages	15
Journal	Urban Studies
Volume	48
Issue number	16
Early online date	10 Mar 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098010396238
Publication status	Published - Dec 2011

Keywords

Consumption
Housing
Governance
Resistance
Tenure

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