Overview
- Offers the first academic study of shared ownership schemes in the UK that is independent from stakeholders in the industry
- Brings together expertise from socio-legal studies as well as housing and social policy
- Holds broad appeal beyond academics, for both practitioners and anyone with an interest in the issue of housing
Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords – known as shared ownership – to challenge everyday assumptions held about the ‘social’ and the ‘legal’ in property. The authors provide a study of the construction of property ownership, from the creation of this idea through to the present day, and offer a fresh consideration of key issues surrounding property, ownership, and the social.
Analysing a diverse range of sources (from archives to micro-blogs, observation of housing providers, and interviews with shared owners), the authors explain the significance of the things (from the formal documents like leases, to odd materials like sweet wrappers and cigarette butts) commonly found in the narratives around shared ownership which are used to construct it as private ownership in everyday life. Ultimately, they uncover how this dream of ownership can become tarnished when people’s identities as‘owners’ come under threat, and as such, these findings will provide fascinating insight into the intricacies of so-called home ownership for scholars of Law, Criminology, and Sociology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dave Cowan is Professor of Law and Policy at the University of Bristol, UK.
Helen Carr is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, UK.
Alison Wallace is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ownership, Narrative, Things
Authors: Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace
Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59068-8Published: 10 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59069-5Published: 09 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-9274
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 239
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Socio-legal Studies, Social Policy, Civil Law, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Sociological Theory