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Elara Shurety

@elaraks.bsky.social
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Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Excited to share our new Social Science & Medicine article – a reflexive study of WellHome Study fieldworkers working in participants' homes, exploring how positionality shapes data collection & knowledge production By me, Frank J. Kelly & @drdianavaraden.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Happy DOI day to @elaraks.bsky.social, new article out from her massive and ambitious project on damp and housing dispossession in London www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Proximity and positionality: Situating knowledge through the experiences of quantitative air quality data collectors working in participants' homes
PDF | Data collection is a vital part of the research process, and those who conduct this work play a foundational role in shaping research. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Excited to share our new Social Science & Medicine article – a reflexive study of WellHome Study fieldworkers working in participants' homes, exploring how positionality shapes data collection & knowledge production By me, Frank J. Kelly & @drdianavaraden.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#Update 'Crafting Computational Counter-Media: Spatial Story Design of Housing (In)justice and Archival Challenges' by @bretthalperin.bsky.social on the community-based process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's interactive digital story map #Covid19 radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/craftin...
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Crafting computational counter-media » Radical Housing Journal
This piece is an update on the community-based design process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (AEMP) interactive digital story map documenting housing (in)justice during the Covid-19 pandem...
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Vacancy isn’t just empty space—it’s a money-making machine. In this piece for @radicalhousing.bsky.social, I break down how landlord power, state policy, and Greece’s deep-rooted attachment to family ownership turn vacancy into one of the country’s most profitable ventures.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#LongRead "Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy" @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social reinterprets vacancy as a tool for profit, reinforced by state policies, landlord lobbying & #Greece’s entrenched system of possessive #familialism. radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy » Radical Housing Journal
This paper reinterprets urban vacancy in Greece not as market failure, but as a calculated tool for profit. Focusing on Thessaloniki, it argues that vacancy is produced, maintained, repurposed, and re...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Homes and Hands United" examines the strategic alliance between a graduate-student tenant union & Teaching and Research Assistants at McMaster University, Hamilton #Ontario #housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-a...
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Homes and hands united » Radical Housing Journal
This paper examines the strategic alliance between the Tenant Solidarity Working Group (TSWG)—a graduate-student tenant union—and CUPE Local 3906, representing Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Research A...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Issue 7.1 #LongRead by Luisa Gehriger "Between normalisation, critique and contestation: Why tenants threatened by displacement resist or comply with landlords' plans" draws on a five-years research with tenants facing renovation and demolition in #Basel radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...
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Between normalisation, critique and contestation » Radical Housing Journal
Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with tenants facing mass cancellations due to renovation or demolition in Basel, Switzerland, this paper analyses the relation between landlords’ plans a...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
In Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing", Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey & Shaun French discuss the challenges of organising in, against-and-beyond social housing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns. radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
From the #Editorial of issue 7.1 "..at the heart of authoritarianism is a desire for absolute control over people, land and territory—a desire closely tied to questions of property and who has rights to dwell and inhabit in which place." To read more: radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
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Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal
Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
❤️‍🔥 Issue 7.1 of the @radicalhousing.bsky.social out today! ❤️‍🔥 It's been a pleasure & a privilege to work with the RHJ collective & some very talented authors on producing this rich issue. Check out some of the articles within, and read our editorial here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/editori...
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Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence » Radical Housing Journal
We pen this editorial amidst growing authoritarianism and violence around the world, from the Israeli state’s continued genocide in Gaza to the unfurling fist of the Trump administration quashing immi...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁 "Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-... #housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hello #radicalhousing readers & supporters! 🥁 Next week the RHJ collective will launch its new issue 7.1 bringing together insights & reflections from scholars and activists across the world on #housingprecarity, #tenantsorganizing, land and property #vacancy, & #resistance to #displacement!
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱 We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation. 📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The Radical Housing Journal is now on bsky – follow us here @radicalhousing.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The giant housing association Clarion Housing Group is trying to victimise those who complain of service failures, but our members are fighting back and won't be intimidated. #ShacAction shaction.org/2025/02/19/c...
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Social Housing Action CampaignClarion’s Victimisation Culture
SHAC has heard many accounts of victimising by landlords when things go wrong. Typically, this arises when tenants and residents report leaks, damp and mould in their homes and are told that their …
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
@kwajo.bsky.social I am a PhD student looking to interview Eastfields, High Path, & Ravensbury residents (past and present) who have experienced damp and mould. Would you consider sharing this poster? Thank you!
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Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Shocking aerial images of urbicide in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
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Devastation: aerial views of Gaza after ceasefire – in pictures
Months of Israeli bombardment have turned buildings into piles of rubble and ash
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)
A car sitting at a desk
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
MOULD. It's political. Important new open access paper by Elara Shurety on housing, mould and toxicity Elara is a King's College London PhD candidate I supervise with Phil Hubbard (@gypjh2000.bsky.social) in the Urban Futures research group journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Seeing as it's the new year, I'll begin by resharing my paper which was published at a very inopportune time (Xmas Eve) – on mouldy housing, race, slow violence, and "toxic" black mould 🦠🦠. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
You know when PhD students spend a few months at a different uni (often in different countries) – how do they get to do this? What are they doing? Are there specific programmes? Where do you find them? Etc (AKA, it's the first Monday of January and I'm looking for ways to leave the UK...)
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I demand to be named as a co-author… (seriously though, looks like an important piece!)
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Published over xmas (thanks publishers!) but very excited to see Elara Shurety's first paper from her PhD studies of domestic mould. Important stuff and there is a lot more to come! bsky.app/profile/elar...
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
SHAC on Sky News: Disrepairs Sky News exposed appalling disrepairs & reported on increased complaints to the Housing Ombudsman. A failure of govt enforcement. LAs suffer budget cuts, but HAs have a surplus of £4.4 billion. Rents are up. They can't plead poverty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3x7...
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Sky News - Disrepairs - 22 Dec 2024
YouTube video by The Social Housing Action Campaign
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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Interesting new paper in Progress in Environmental Geography by @elaraks.bsky.social, interpreting damp and moldy housing through the lens of toxic geographies to understand (slow) violence and harm in/through housing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
🦠 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🦠 'Moldy homes: #Toxicity, #race, and the geographies of domestic #mold' by Elara Shurety journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @elaraks.bsky.social
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Nearly 160,000 children in England will wake up on Christmas Day homeless and in temporary accommodation It is not families who are failing, families have been failed Just pressed submit on book manuscript landing in 2025 #homelessness #temporaryaccommodation #debt #England
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Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here's an essay about how civil society organising has become dominated by NGOs and the projectariat @damagemag.bsky.social The failed Participatory City project in London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is our example 'Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions' damagemag.com/2024/06/24/b...
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Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions
Civil society was once occupied by popular forces that could function as a bulwark against both capitalist marketization and state authoritarianism. Today, it has been colonized by the NGO, which, in ...
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
ALWAYS thinking about these pics I came across in @bencampkin.bsky.social 's Remaking London (from the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre) of model fleas, rats, bedbugs, and cockroaches being burnt during slum clearances in Somers Town, 1929 ...🪳🪳
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This article is harrowing and a difficult read, but really neatly evidences the key structural issue facing the housing crisis: namely slum landlordism and the grip on the political and social narrative in the UK /🧵
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Family live with sewage spills and maggots in 'horrific' temporary housing
Fauzia's family are one of a record 123,000 households living in temporary accommodation in England.
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Really great article from @shacaction.bsky.social on Awaab’s Law, outlining the troubling barriers set to restrict residents’ ability to access the justice the Bill purports to provide
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Have been trying to find people to follow here for the past few days & been absently wondering why I seem to be coming across a higher proportion of US accounts than I do elsewhere … but only just remembered why that might be the case due to events in recent months lol
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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 16/12/2024
Less than 30% of tenant complaints to LA EHOs even result in an inspection. And that is English national average. Half of all inspections were carried out by just 20 authorities out of 295. So the odds of getting a response, let alone enforcement, are, depending on area, very poor indeed.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
'State-led gentrification'? New on Substack, part II of my post on Southwark's Aylesbury Estate looks at its controversial and long-running regeneration: open.substack.com/pub/municipa...
Large slab blockInterior view of large estateView of slab block facade
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Resharing here my (first ever!) peer-reviewed paper from 2021, published in the Radical Housing Journal: radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/securin... It argues property guardianship is a method of not only building security but also dispersed policing in urban spaces (particularly regenerating ones).
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Securing the city, making the city: » Radical Housing Journal
This article discusses property guardianship, a type of building security by live-in occupants, as a growing method of dispersed policing.
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