UK first research funded by the ESRC
“The more rigid the separation of private and public spheres and the more unsafe, unwelcoming and inaccessible public spaces are, the more isolated, exposed and vulnerable people become to those they share private space with.” – Andrea Gibbons
Continue reading “Why Expanding the Commons Will Save Women’s Lives”
I had a really great conversation on Monday. I have been trying to work out why I enjoyed it so much.
Bridging the divide between generations can be challenging at the best of times. Explaining the choice to live in a tiny house is a complicated one, particularly to people who don’t share the same values. The extent to which we can even say that living in a tiny house is truly a choice is debatable.
Continue reading “My Family Think I’m Crazy For Living In A Tiny House”
I listened to a podcast recently where Balaji Srinivasan spoke about financial freedom. He summarised something that I have been writing about since the beginning of my PhD.
Continue reading “Without Financial Freedom, You Cannot Have Freedom Of Thought”
Here is something that comes up a lot in my research on tiny houses. People who don’t like them criticise them for being both:
Continue reading “Too Gypsy, Too Hippy: The Tiny House Contradiction”
Four months ago, I spoke to Amy, a 33 year old Realtor living in the US. Amy immediately struck me as smart and focussed, she made me laugh and had a brilliant way of making incisive social critiques with her personal anecdotes and wry remarks.
It has become the norm to talk about millennials and boomers as if they are sworn enemies. Millennials are caricatured as hating boomers for hoarding wealth and destroying the planet. Conversely, boomers are characterised as finding millennials to be trivial, vapid snowflakes.
The healthy person has a thousand wishes, the sick person has just one.
Unsettling distinctions and liminality. These are the phrases that have been on my mind and in my mouth recently in conversations about tiny houses.
Continue reading “Tiny houses: Confirming or Denying the Neoliberal Ideal?”
How can we step away from systems we depend on when we recognise that those systems are flawed or harmful? I have spent six and a half years in higher education, and I think this is one of the big questions that has underpinned my work throughout that time.