Eviction as infrastructure

Abstract

Eviction might be considered a form of infrastructure: as a process of binding and unbinding people to a world in movement, producing the grounds on which action can take place. Going beyond a causal relationship between infrastructure and displacement, we may posit that eviction can be seen as a distributed, ongoing, system which binds people and creates the grounds for action. So, what might infrastructural theory reveal about evictions? How might we begin to study eviction as infrastructure?

• eviction
• housing
• infrastructure
• the commons
• enclosure
• property
• logistics

Additional information

Funding

This work was completed with the support of the Leverhulme Trust.

Notes on contributors

Alex Baker

Alex Baker is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK, and is currently working on a project on the international geographies of eviction enforcement. Email: [email protected]