Paper short abstract:

Whether it's Hackney, Stratford or occupied East Jerusalem, the paper reflects on my own practice as an urban ethnographer and documentary photographer working on visualising housing insecurities and their intersection with race, class, gender and coloniality.

Paper long abstract:

Whether it’s Focus E-15 housing campaign, the single, young mothers campaign against eviction and shipping them out of London to cities as far as Manchester and Hastings, demanding to stay in London and their right to decent housing, or Two Households: One Neighbourhood project about gentrification in Hackney, or the documentation of housing conditions and displacement in occupied East Jerusalem, the paper reflects on my own practice as an urban ethnographer and photographer working on visualising housing insecurities and their intersection with race, class, gender and coloniality. The paper covers both the intimacies of home and the publicability of housing activism.