The Radical Housing Journal is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication addressing housing issues, social justice, and homelessness. It fosters collaboration among activists and scholars, emphasizing radical approaches to housing and challenging conventional narratives on dispossession and housing injustice.
The Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication dedicated to exploring issues of housing, social justice, eviction, gentrification, and homelessness. It was conceived in 2016 through discussions among activist and scholarly communities, aiming to create a platform for intellectual and action-oriented debates on radical approaches to housing. The journal emphasizes the political nature of housing, viewing it as inseparable from the practices of inhabiting space and contesting forces that render the world uninhabitable[1][3].
RHJ seeks to critically intervene in both pre and post-crisis housing debates, offering a space for discussing radical housing politics and research. It is committed to fostering cross-border collaborations among organizers, activists, artists, and thinkers to address dispossession and construct alternatives for housing futures. The journal features conversations and contributions from various individuals involved in local struggles across the Americas, also referred to by its Indigenous name Abya-Yala, providing insights into tactics and strategies used to oppose dispossession and build alternatives[2].
The journal's content is rigorously editorially assessed to ensure quality and relevance. It aims to maintain collective ownership and operate beyond the confines of traditional academic publishing, keeping all content open access and striving for a self-financing model that supports its radical politics. RHJ encourages contributions from a wide range of participants, including scholars, activists, and artists, to debate and advance knowledge on radical housing approaches[1].
One of the key themes explored in the journal is the concept of housing as a battlefield, highlighting the violent dispossession and socio-spatial ruination occurring through armed conflicts and institutional housing violations. This theme underscores the journal's commitment to historicizing, humanizing, and visualizing housing injustice and dispossession, with the ultimate goal of liberation and transformation of these processes[2].
Overall, the Radical Housing Journal represents a significant effort to challenge and rethink conventional narratives around housing, emphasizing the need for radical, collective action and thought to address the complex issues of housing injustice and insecurity[1][2][3].
Citations: [1] https://radicalhousingjournal.org/about/ [2] https://radicalhousingjournal.org [3] https://www.doaj.org/toc/2632-2870 [4] https://twitter.com/Radical_Housing [5] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19452829.2023.2255016 [6] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19491247.2019.1611121