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  • Formaat: Hardback, 286 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x156x10 mm, kaal: 596 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2013
  • Kirjastus: Hart Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1849461538
  • ISBN-13: 9781849461535
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A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. However, the meaning, content, scope and even existence of a right to housing raise vexed questions.

Drawing on insights from disciplines including law, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and geography, this book is both a contribution to the state of knowledge on the right to housing, and an entry into the broader human rights debate. It addresses profound questions on the role of human rights in belonging and citizenship, the formation of identity, the perpetuation of forms of social organisation and, ultimately, of the relationship between the individual and the state. The book addresses the legal, theoretical and conceptual issues, providing a deep analysis of the right to housing within and beyond human rights law. Structured in three parts, the book outlines the right to housing in international law and in key national legal systems; examines the most important concepts of housing: space, privacy and identity and, finally, looks at the potential of the right to alleviate human misery, marginalisation and deprivation.

The book represents a major contribution to the scholarship on an under-studied and ill-defined right. In terms of content, it provides a much needed exploration of the right to housing. In approach it offers a new framework for argument within which the right to housing, as well as other under-theorised and contested rights, can be reconsidered, reconnecting human rights with the social conditions of their violation, and hence with the reasons for their existence.

Shortlisted for The Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2013.

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a major mile-stone in human rights literature and adds considerably to discourse concerning the right to housing in the United Kingdom and beyondAs well as being of interest to those who engage with the right to housing within the legal regimes considered, the philosophical reflections on the right to housing, and its place within broader human rights discourse, offered by the text will undoubtedly interest academics and students alike. In summation The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities by Jessie Hohmann is a must-read text for those interested in human rights and the right to housing. -- Mark Jordan * Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law, Volume 2. No.3 * Jessie Hohmann provides an insightful and sophisticated analysis of the meaning, content, scope and nature of housing rightsWhile rooted in a legal analysis, she draws on a range of disciplines including anthropology, political theory, philosophy, and geography, to create a major contribution to knowledge in this areaFor anyone with any sustained interest in the right to housing this book is invaluable. Well-written, concise, well researched and structured, it is essential reading for lawyers, academics, advocates, and policy makers. -- Padraic Kenna * European Journal of Homelessness, Volume 7. No 2 * ...Hohmann's work is a fitting introduction to the convoluted topic of housing as a human right. She adds insightful commentary to the concepts of housing and home... -- Matt Hartman * LSE Review of Books * ...I think this is an absolute bargain and would urge anyone who really wants to think about housing law (in the widest possible sense) to buy this book. * Nearly Legal Blog: Housing Law News and Comments * There are significant, original elements to this book that make it an important read for anyone with a serious interest in the right to housing or housing-related rights (whether human rights or otherwise). Crucially, Hohmann challenges the reader to consider how the right to housing has been conceptualised by different actors and how these conceptualisations might and should be improved upon if the right is to have meaning for those to whom it is of greatest importance. As such, this is not merely a scholarly work providing a useful, detailed analysis of decisions by a set of bodies in order to advance abstract academic debate about the content of the right to housing. Rather, it is motivated, and enlivened, by a galvanising, persuasive concern with making the right to housing real. -- Aoife Nolan * Human Rights Law Review, Vol 14, No 3, September 2014 * This is a rich and informative discussion, which is warmly welcomed. -- Adrian Stalker * The Edinburgh Law Review * Hohmann's book is an excellent resource on the right to housing...[ it] is immensely important. -- Jayna Kothari * The British Yearbook of International Law, 2014 * The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities is an important book for students of housing as well as beyond in law, urban studies, geography and sociology. -- Craig Hatcher * International Journal of Housing Policy, 2015 *

Preface v
Introduction. The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities 1(12)
I Assumptions, Definitions, Scope
3(10)
A Law, Concepts, Possibilities or Concepts, Law, Possibilities?: a Note on the Structural Tensions
3(1)
B Defining Housing, House and Home
4(1)
C A 'Right to Housing' versus 'Housing Rights'
5(2)
D Categorising the Right to Housing: Economic, Social or Cultural Right?
7(6)
Part I Law
Introduction
13(2)
1 The Right to Housing in the International Bill of Rights
15(23)
I Introduction
15(1)
II Universal Declaration of Human Rights
15(2)
III International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
17(15)
A General Comments 4 and 7 and the Elements of the Right to Housing
20(9)
i Legal Security of Tenure
21(2)
ii Availability of Services, Materials, Facilities and Infrastructure
23(1)
iii Affordability
24(1)
iv Habitability
25(1)
v Accessibility
26(1)
vi Location
27(1)
vii Cultural Adequacy
28(1)
B Optional Protocol: New Opportunities for Enforcement and Interpretation
29(2)
C Conclusions on the Interpretation of the Right to Housing under the ICESCR
31(1)
IV International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
32(6)
A Discrimination, Unlawful Interference and Inhuman Treatment in Housing
33(2)
B Socio-economic Conditions and the Enjoyment of ICCPR Rights
35(3)
2 The Right to Housing in Subject-Specific International Conventions
38(11)
I Introduction
38(1)
II Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
39(2)
III Convention on the Rights of the Child
41(2)
IV Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
43(3)
V Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
46(2)
VI Conclusion
48(1)
3 The Right to Housing in Regional Covenants
49(45)
I Introduction
49(1)
II The Right to Housing in Europe
49(26)
A Revised European Social Charter
50(17)
i The Scheme of Rights Protection under the RESC
50(4)
ii State Housing Policy and Vulnerability
54(3)
iii Housing Restitution
57(3)
iv Roma Rights
60(7)
B European Convention on Human Rights
67(8)
i The Scheme of Rights Protection under the ECHR
67(1)
ii Article 8: Home, Family, Private Life and the Right to Housing
68(3)
iii Protocol 1 Article 1 and the Right to Protection of Property
71(1)
iv Right to Life under Article 2 and Positive Obligations for a Right to Housing
72(1)
v Destruction of Housing, Destitution and Inhuman Treatment under Article 3
73(1)
vi Conclusions on the Right to Housing under the ECHR
74(1)
III African Regional Housing Rights
75(8)
A The Scheme of Rights Protection in Africa
75(1)
B Implied Right to Housing and Shelter in the African Charter
76(6)
C Conclusion
82(1)
IV Inter-American Human Rights System
83(8)
A The Inter-American Scheme of Human Rights Protection
83(2)
B Implying a Right to Housing in the Americas: Three Methods
85(9)
i Forced Evictions, Expulsions and the Destruction of Housing
85(2)
ii Housing and the Dignified Life
87(2)
iii Remedies and Reparations, including Material Goods
89(2)
V Arab Charter on Human Rights
91(1)
VI Conclusions on the Regional Protection of the Right to Housing
92(2)
4 The Right to Housing as a Constitutional Right: South African and Indian Experiences
94(26)
I Introduction
94(1)
II A Justiciable Right to Housing: the South African Approach
94(14)
A Crafting a South African Approach to the Right to Housing: the Grootboom Case
97(2)
B Reasonableness and its Discontents
99(4)
C Joe Slovo: Recovering the Social, the Political and the Historical?
103(5)
D Conclusions on the South African Approach to the Right to Housing
108(1)
III The Right to Housing as a Right to Life: the Indian Approach
108(12)
A Introduction
108(2)
B The Right to Housing as a Right to Life and Livelihood
110(8)
C Conclusions on the Indian Experience
118(2)
5 The De-radicalised Right to Housing: An Assessment of Interpretive Failings
120(21)
I Introduction
120(1)
II Gaps and Weaknesses in the Legal Interpretation of the Right to Housing
121(16)
A The Issue of Definition
122(7)
B The Problem of Proceduralisation
129(5)
i Procedural Interpretation of the Right to Housing
129(2)
ii Programmatic Approach to the Right to Housing
131(3)
C The Failure of the Legal Right to Housing in the Context of Human Rights Violation
134(3)
III Conclusion
137(4)
Part II Concepts
Introduction
141(4)
6 Privacy
145(24)
I Introduction
145(1)
II Public/Private and the Operation of Law in the Creation of Homelessness
146(2)
III Visible Homelessness of Street and Pavement Dwellers and Deprivation of the Private
148(4)
IV Women's Essential Homelessness and Enforced Privacy
152(7)
V Erasing the Public/Private Distinction and the Hidden Homelessness of Domestic Workers
159(6)
VI Conclusion: Homelessness, Rightlessness and the Right to Housing as Social Belonging
165(4)
7 Identity
169(29)
I Introduction
169(4)
II Promoting Identity: Constituting Personhood and Community through Housing
173(10)
A Housing and Personhood
173(5)
B Housing and the Constitution of Community
178(5)
III Constraining and Erasing Identities: Housing as Social Control
183(13)
A Constraining Identities: Women, Family and the Ideal of Home
184(5)
B Erasure of Indigenous Identity: Forced Displacement and Acculturation through Housing Policy
189(7)
IV Conclusion
196(2)
8 Space
198(33)
I Introduction: the Spatiality of Rights
198(2)
II Housing as Social Control/Housing as Social Transformation
200(1)
III Mumbai: Housing, Rights, Citizenship, Space
201(5)
IV Vision Mumbai and the Planning of Social Transformation
206(17)
A Inclusion or Invisibility: City Beautification and Rights to Space
209(8)
B Territory, Rights and Control: Governing the Space of the City
217(6)
V Conclusion: the Boundaries of Spatial Analysis and the Possibilities of the Right to Housing
223(8)
Part III Possibilities
9 Possibilities, Politics, Law
231(20)
I The Right to Housing: Illustrating Ambivalence in Human Rights for Social Transformation
231(2)
II Institutional Mythologies and the Hidden Politics of Human Rights
233(6)
A Institutional Mythologies
234(3)
B The Hidden Politics of Human Rights
237(2)
III The Ownership of Rights
239(10)
A The Critique of Rights as Cooptation and False Promise
240(1)
B Agency and the Ownership of Human Rights
241(5)
C Law, Politics and Possibilities: the Role of Legal Subjectivity
246(3)
IV Conclusion: Human Rights Utopia and Fundamental Human Equality
249(2)
Bibliography 251(18)
Index 269
Jessie Hohmann is a lecturer in law at Queen Mary, University of London.