Graduierungsausstellung

Project information

submitted by
Tabea Carlotta Latocha

Supervising professorship
Stadtplanung

Advisors
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Barbara Schönig, Dipl.-Ing. Julia von Mende

Degree programme:
Urbanistik (Master of Science (M.Sc.))

Project description

This master thesis has looked at the precarization of housing "at the margins" of the entrepreneurial city Frankfurt/Main from a critical-feminist perspective. The subject of my research are the everyday experiences of residents in the housing estate Robert-Dißmann in Sossenheim; an area regarded as "social hotspot" in the periphery.
The analysis shows that the 'neoliberal enclosure' of housing-as-home has shaped the social conditions in the settlement and aligned it with an economic rationality. The conceptualization of "housing as care infrastructure" was used as an analytical tool for uncovering relationships between administrative practices, living experiences, crumbling plaster and ownership. The assemblages #property, #care, #appropriation and #exclusion have been identified as central mechanisms for the spatiotemporal inscription of precariousness "at the margins" of the Global City. However, these findings refer to a "broad stream of precarization" (Bourdieu 1998: 98, Trans.) that flows through the housing system as societal infrastructure. Here, connections between precarization and welfare transformation in the context of globalization and neoliberalization crises come to the fore.
The housing-estate-as-home as a field of relationships for the everyday negotiation of experiences of marginalization emerges as a place of collective resistance against the individualization of social risks, but also as place of regressive political subjectivation and exclusion.

Files and presentations

• Beziehungsweisen_Wohnen_Praesentation.pdf