Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations
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In: Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 39, No. 5, 20.10.2022, p. 524-554.
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T1 - Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations
AU - Huber, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 IBF, The Institute for Housing and Urban Research.
PY - 2022/10/20
Y1 - 2022/10/20
N2 - This paper analyses the normalization of everyday sharing practices in two exemplary German neighbourhoods, which both provide numerous opportunities for sharing spaces, stuff, food and mobility carriers, but differ regarding their “philosophy”. The first case belongs to the increasingly popular “collaborative housing” model, the second one is a developer-driven, service-based project. Inspired by core ideas from Social Practice Theory, the guiding questions of this research are then 1) to which extent have sharing practices become a normal part of residents’ lives in these neighbourhoods and 2) what may explain observed differences? Evidence shows that residents in the collaborative housing case share more frequently, more regularly and over longer timespans than their counterparts in the developer-driven neighbourhood. I argue that this is due to a higher share of fitting practice configurations and a better integration of sharing practices into tenants’ typical patterns of everyday life.
AB - This paper analyses the normalization of everyday sharing practices in two exemplary German neighbourhoods, which both provide numerous opportunities for sharing spaces, stuff, food and mobility carriers, but differ regarding their “philosophy”. The first case belongs to the increasingly popular “collaborative housing” model, the second one is a developer-driven, service-based project. Inspired by core ideas from Social Practice Theory, the guiding questions of this research are then 1) to which extent have sharing practices become a normal part of residents’ lives in these neighbourhoods and 2) what may explain observed differences? Evidence shows that residents in the collaborative housing case share more frequently, more regularly and over longer timespans than their counterparts in the developer-driven neighbourhood. I argue that this is due to a higher share of fitting practice configurations and a better integration of sharing practices into tenants’ typical patterns of everyday life.
KW - co-living
KW - collaborative housing
KW - Germany
KW - neighbourhood
KW - Sharing
KW - social practice theory
KW - Sustainability Governance
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/50468edb-6884-3662-bd0a-368eb14fd270/
U2 - 10.1080/14036096.2022.2039286
DO - 10.1080/14036096.2022.2039286
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85125287200
VL - 39
SP - 524
EP - 554
JO - Housing, Theory and Society
JF - Housing, Theory and Society
SN - 1403-6096
IS - 5
ER -