Precarious geographies and property guardianship in the UK

In this episode we speak to Mara Ferreri, Assistant Professor in Economic and Political Geography at Polytechnic of Turin. Her research focuses on housing precarity, temporary and platform urbanism, and struggles for housing commoning. In her recently published book, The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalizing Precarity in Austerity London, she draws on seven years of semi-ethnographic research to highlight the material and cultural dynamics of temporary urbanism in the context of capitalism, particularly the gentrification processes that are currently occurring in the city. Here, Mara provides an in-depth account of the complex phenomenon of property guardianship in the UK and helps draw out potential learnings for the way forward for progressing planning in this context.