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Adriana Soaita

@adrianasoaita.bsky.social
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Researcher | Author | Writer | Honorary at the University of Glasgow and Bucharest | MSCA fellow | AFFECTIVE-PRS

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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🥳 new article 🥳 we read voluntary relocation during Covid through the lens of CREATIVE DESTRUCTION counter-balancing its common frame of disruption. We observe radically new wants & lifeforms as well as quiet transformations.
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Self-initiated residential mobility in pandemic times: A Schumpeterian perspective
This paper reads voluntary residential relocation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania through the lens of creative destruction, counter-balancing its more common framing of disruption. Revisiti...
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Happy to share my new article, offering a more dynamic view on how migrant housing precarity fluctuates along shorter or longer “moments” of darker or lighter intensity. Bringing precarity & precariousness; De-homogenising the migrant & the precarious www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interpreting moments of housing precarity along migrants’ biographies: the case of Romanians residing in post-Brexit Britain
Precarity, a now established concept and an increasingly prevalent life condition, has been usefully employed to scrutinise mostly the non-housing challenges faced by migrants, particularly of the ...
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Ken Gibb @kengibb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
housingevidence.ac.uk/towards-a-sh...
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Towards a Shared Understanding of Housing Affordability - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence
What does it mean to say the cost of housing is affordable or unaffordable? When are rents charged truly affordable? Do governments in Scotland, or at UK level, use affordability […]
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Ken Gibb @kengibb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
theconversation.com/the-uks-weal...
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The UK’s wealth ‘timebomb’ – and how to defuse it
The case for taxing wealth has historically come from the political mainstream – so why is it so unpalatable now?
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
doi.org/10.1080/0267... 📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
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Landlords’ and tenants’ pathways into renting: the case of Romania
Taking the case of the emerging private rental sector in the world’s top homeownership society, the paper proposes two theoretical expansions of broader interest to international housing studies. F...
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Urban imaginaries in the affective politics of becoming a new town in Romania
The post-2000 urbanisation wave of Eastern Europe, which saw about 470 communes granted township status, has received minimal attention in urban studi…
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🎺 Here is a literature synthesis of qual 📚on tenants/landlords experiences in the Majority World (W Africa, E Europe and Indian subc). We focus so much on the West, time to read about elsewhere! Read through the concept of “structures of feeling” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Structures of feeling in the affective economies of renting in the Majority World: An interpretative synthesis of qualitative research
Recent interest in private rented housing seen as a structural mechanism generator of inequalities of wealth, health and wellbeing has been dominated …
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Scottish Housing News @scottishhousingnews.com · 20/03/2025
Prof Kenneth Gibb outlines how CaCHE research played a key role in shaping Northern Ireland’s new intermediate rental tenure—offering affordable options for those priced out of homeownership and market rent. @housingevidence.bsky.social @kengibb.bsky.social
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Professor Ken Gibb: It’s not every day you help create a new housing tenure
Prof Kenneth Gibb outlines how CaCHE research played a key role in shaping Northern Ireland’s new intermediate rental tenure—offering affordable options for those priced out of homeownership and market rent.
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Beth Watts-Cobbe @bethwcobbe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Please join us for our next @i-sphere.bsky.social webinar at 11am on March 26th when the brilliant @lynnemcmordie.bsky.social will be speaking about 'Violence against women and homelessness'. All welcome, please share, sign up here: i-sphere.site.hw.ac.uk/event/i-sphe...
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I-SPHERE and CHIH March Seminar – I-SPHERE
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Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Funded PhD @uofgussp.bsky.social with Professor Sharon Wright, Professor Charlotte Pearson (and me!) - Exploring the Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability. Deadline 10 April - please get in touch if you want to discuss this opportunity www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
Picture of University of Glasgow and text that says 'ESRC-funded Supervisor led Studentship: Disabled People's Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability' First Supervisor Professor Sharon Wright Second Supervisor Professor Charlotte Pearson. Application deadline: 10 April 5pm BST. A link to apply is included.
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🤞In the spirit of collegiality and transparency, I’ve made my successful MSCA proposal (PART B-1, 10 pages) available as Open Access. Good luck 🍀👇 zenodo.org/records/1480...
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My winning MSCA Proposal - AFFECTIVE-PRS
In the spirit of collegiality and transparency, I’ve made my successful MSCA proposal (PART B-1, 10 pages) available as Open Access. I hope it serves as a helpful example for anyone considering submit...
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We have also seen the grey seals and their pups 🦭🤫
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
@tataeenr1.bsky.social Ce nota de credibilitate va dati , domnul Ciolacu, cand in august si septembrie ca prim ministru afirmati cu tarie ca exista fonduri pt plata pensilor si ca noua lege aduce predictibilitate pensionarilor, eliberandu-i de factorul politic? Minciuni? Unde va este cuvantul? 💨 👎
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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The way residential property taxes operate is mind-boggling…but negative gearing surely takes the biscuit… www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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One million Australians are negatively gearing, new tax figures show
New Treasury figures show the top tenth of earners are hauling in tens of billions of dollars from tax concessions and loopholes.
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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
...Just because a group can shout very loudly (from their holiday homes) doesn't mean they're empirically, ethically, or morally right. Indeed, as my own research shows, the middle class are particularly adept at this sort of thing: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... FIN.
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The middle-class enjoy definite advantages in public service provision. More critical and extensive research is needed
Annette Hastings and Peter Matthews argue that it is vitally important to better research and address the uneven distribution of public services and the benefits enjoyed by the sharp-elbowed middle…
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What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
episode 7! "Why Does Class Matter?" in which we talk about class struggle as a collective action problem, solidarity as counterculture, and labor market domination. wonderfully, Lillian accuses everyone *else* of being a class reductionist. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...
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7 | Why Does Class Matter?
Podcast Episode · What's Left of Philosophy · 02/12/2021 · 59m
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🎥 “The ideal rented home” - views from the Romanian public 🇷🇴, project AFFECTIVE-PRS search.app/kzv7hftJFEGX...
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“The ideal tenant” views from the Romanian public 🇷🇴 , project AFFECTIVE-PRS search.app/vPQJw7o7npnG...
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In a series of 3 videosclips 📽️ the public reflected on the idea of “The Ideal Landord” - views from 🇷🇴 , ptoject AFFECTIVE-PRS search.app/GL6TJbULprhP...
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Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello everybody, so nice to be on Bluesky, this pretty 🦋 puts a smiling on my face 😍 I hope to find many of my friends here and, hey, it feels great to have that X guillotine out of my way 👐
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