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Emma Power @dremmapower

Editor @IJHPEditors | Geographer; housing, home and the caring city | Associate Professor, Western Sydney University | dremmapower.com

Joined February 2016
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Emma Power@dremmapower
23 Jun 2022
Super pleased to share this one - Shadow care infrastructures: Sustaining life in post-welfare cities. Theorising how people survive in fragmenting, post-welfare cities - w/ @KathyMee10 @MitchyEmma & Ilan Wiesel journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Shadow care infrastructures: Sustaining life in post-welfare cities - Emma R Power, Ilan Wiesel,...

Economic restructuring and welfare reform are driving new forms of urban poverty in the global north. Shadow care infrastructures is a new frame for conceptuali...

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Kenton Card (also on bsky)@kenton_card
24 Mar 2025
Excited to publish a special issue of @envplanc on Housing Movements & Racial Capitalism w/ @AkiraDrake & Margit Mayer Check out 5 great contributions!!👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Introduction to special issue: “Urban Movements within and against Racial Capitalism: Housing as a...

This special issue seeks to unpack key mechanisms and processes at the intersections of mobilizations around homelessness, excessive policing, evictions, public...

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Honoured to give the opening keynote at the Finnish Social Policy Association conference @ University of Eastern Finland - presenting new work on the labours of surviving on a low income in post-welfare cities, from our shadow care infrastructures project.
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Kathy Mee@KathyMee10
18 Aug 2024
Delighted to see this paper out. The first working towards a special issue or 2 on care infrastructures in 2025. @austgeog @GeogSocNSW @dremmapower @MitchyEmma
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Malini Sur@MaliniSur
24 Jul 2024
The first in our 2024 Key concepts lecture series @westsyduics @westernsydneyu Professor Katherine Gibson on Commons Here is a link: vimeo.com/960039564
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Dr Rebecca Clements 🍉@kinokofry
15 Jul 2024
Resharing our new Open Access paper, “Proposing an ethics of care: Tracing Victoria's transport planning history” by @CrystalLegacy1 , myself, @Chinese_Lady & @urban_JW published in Geographical Research! Link below. @Sydney_ADP
Dr Rebecca Clements 🍉@kinokofry
12 Jul 2024
I’m SO thrilled to see this paper finally published after a long road! “Proposing an ethics of care: Tracing Victoria's transport planning history” by @CrystalLegacy1 , myself, @Chinese_Lady & @urban_JW published in Geographical Research Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Louise Crabtree-Hayes@urbansustain
8 Jul 2024
Here’s my latest paper on market interest in community land trust models and the role of researchers in facilitating or blocking understanding of diverse housing models. #CommunityLandTrusts #CLTs tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Research, market, and policy implications of permanently affordable housing: lessons from Austral...

As with many Anglophone nations, Australia displays a dualistic housing system dominated by private ownership and private rental, both of which demonstrate an ongoing and intensifying lack of affor...

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Thrilled to be awarded an ARC Linkage: Delivering Solutions that Meet Older People’s Housing Aspirations. Led by @RachelOngViforJ we'll co-create strategies to deliver innovative housing solutions foreground the housing aspirations of older people facing financial constraints.
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George Turner, PhD@DrGeorgeWTurner
15 May 2024
Congrats Dr. @power_rosalie and team! @westernsydneyu Thrilled to be a part of this $571,000 grant on #Queer and #Disability #healthcare and bring a #socialwork lens to this research. @SocialWork_WSU @westsydusoss
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Rents have reached a record high in Australia. I caught up with SBS to chat about negotiating a rental increase, legal protections for renters, the need for better rental standards, and where to get help if you're struggling financially: sbs.com.au/news/podcast-epis…

Cost of Living Secrets: Renting

Rents have reached a record high in Australia as demand outstrips supply in some areas, elevating cost of living pressures for tenants. So what can be done about it?

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Louise Crabtree-Hayes@urbansustain
23 Apr 2024
The launch of our report 'The Value of Housing Co-operatives in Australia' is now available to watch online, if you weren't able to join us on the day. Check it out and pass it on. @ProfWendyStone @dremmapower #HousingCooperatives
Articulating Value in Housing Co-operatives@CoopHousingRsch
23 Apr 2024
If you missed our report launch event, it is now available to watch online. Find out how housing co-operatives deliver their many benefits and what our excellent keynotes and panelists had to say at vimeo.com/937545999?share=co… #HousingCooperatives
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Fab collection of papers on housing movements and care edited by @FieldsDesiree , @dremmapower and @kenton_card 🔥🔥 Can't wait to dive into it!
Antipode@antipodeonline
12 Apr 2024
Antipode Volume 56, Number 3 - our May 2024 issue - out now, including 10 articles (7 of them #OpenAccess) and a 6-article Symposium, "Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing" antipodeonline.org/2024/04/1…
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Dallas Rogers@DallasRogers101
9 Apr 2024
Oh, so this is happening next week. If you're at AAG come and say hi! Ill be talking about my new research on ... Hostile nature and the settler-colonial city: dangerous native animals, Indigenous land, and venomous property 👇
Urban Geography@urbgeog
13 Dec 2023
📢NEWS📢 The 2024 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture @theAAG will be given by @DallasRogers101 with @anne_bonds & @marina_karides as discussants - look out for this one if you'll be in Honolulu urbangeographyjournal.org/ev…
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RT @DallasRogers101: Book Series Alert! Explorations in Housing Studies Got a housing studies book idea? @dremmapower & I are the new Ed…
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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS)@westsyduics
3 Apr 2024
AU's housing crisis is at an all-time high! Tune into this @ABCLifeMatters episode to hear @MitchyEmma & @urbansustain, explore alternatives to traditional buying & shedding light on co-op living's security. bit.ly/3J2bA9F

Co-operative housing and an adventure leads to love - ABC listen

Co-operative housing makes up around 22 percent of housing in Sweden, but it constitutes less than one percent of housing in Australia. Could it become a bigger part of the housing solution here? And...

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS)@westsyduics
20 Mar 2024
Research by ICS's housing experts @urbansustain, Neil Perry and @dremmapower indicates that expanding housing co-ops could be Australia's solution to the housing crisis. Check out the article to find out more about the research and their findings! bit.ly/4a1d4Nh
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How do social housing providers navigate social media? It's a space for marketing, advocacy, & tenant communication & engagement - but these sometimes conflict. Check out @jennacondie & Liz Ayres on how community housing providers navigate the space tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Tenant participation and emerging social media practices in the social housing sector

Many housing organizations are using social media to engage with a range of stakeholders including tenants. Tenant participation is being reworked in social media spaces as different (previously mo...

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EPA: Economy and Space@economyandspace
22 Feb 2024
OnlineFirst - "Microgeographies of assetisation: Realising value of households and residents in co-living housing" by Tegan L Bergan and @dremmapower: #assetisation #coliving #microgeographies #financialisation journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Microgeographies of assetisation: Realising value of households and residents in co-living housing...

Financialised capitalism’s proclivity for assets helps explain growing investment into new housing asset-classes, including co-living, Build-to-Rent and Purpose...

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Ever wondered what's going on inside the co-living sector? This paper unpacks the microgeographies of assetisation: co-living businesses assetise property AND tenant households - changing the face of what it means to rent - latest from @Tegbergan's PhD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Microgeographies of assetisation: Realising value of households and residents in co-living housing...

Financialised capitalism’s proclivity for assets helps explain growing investment into new housing asset-classes, including co-living, Build-to-Rent and Purpose...

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Housing Studies@HousingJournal
19 Feb 2024
#NewArticleAlert Conceptualising housing as infrastructure: a framework for thinking infrastructurally in housing studies | #OpenAccess ✍️Tegan L. Bergan & Emma R. Power @dremmapower tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Conceptualising housing as infrastructure: a framework for thinking infrastructurally in housing...

Drawing on new infrastructural scholarship, this paper conceptualises housing as infrastructure, outlining a way forward for housing researchers to draw the concept into their empirical practises. ...

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What does it mean to think about & research housing as infrastructure? How does housing organise social and economic life? This is a landmark paper from an exciting researcher - it was a privilege to write with @Tegbergan, from her recently completed PhD tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Conceptualising housing as infrastructure: a framework for thinking infrastructurally in housing...

Drawing on new infrastructural scholarship, this paper conceptualises housing as infrastructure, outlining a way forward for housing researchers to draw the concept into their empirical practises. ...

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