Precarious Intimacies, livre ebook

This book takes a unique empirical focus on the precarious spaces of rented housing, a distinctively geographical approach to generational inequality and millennial experience and introduces the reader to the specifically spatial dimensions of insecurity.

In a time of increasing social and economic inequality, this book illustrates the precarity experienced by millennials facing both rising rents and wage stagnation. Featuring the voices of those with lived experience of precarity in north-east London, MacNeil Taylor focuses on intimacy, reproduction and emotional labour.

The book widens readers’ understanding of a middle-class ‘generation rent’ beyond those locked out of anticipated home ownership by considering both social and private renters. Situated in a feminist and queer theoretical framework, the book reveals the crucial role of British policy-making on housing, welfare, and immigration in exacerbating inter- and intra-generational inequality.

1. Introduction

2. Precarious Intimacy

3. Obstructing Reproduction

4. Labours

5. Feeling Space

6. Conclusion