Challenging the Norm? The ‘Ethopolitics’ of Low-cost Homeownership in Scotland

Citation

McKee K (2011) Challenging the Norm? The ‘Ethopolitics’ of Low-cost Homeownership in Scotland. Urban Studies, 48 (16), pp. 3399-3413. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098010396238

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.

Notes
This was accepted for publication at my previous institution and is in there open -access archive (St Andrews); not sure of the acceptance date as this information was not required then

Journal
Urban Studies: Volume 48, Issue 16

People

Dr Kim McKee

Senior Lecturer, Housing Studies