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A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery (2023)
Journal Article
Clare, N., Iafrati, S., Reeson, C., Wright, N., Gray, C., & Baptiste, H. (2023). A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Journal of the British Academy, 11, 83-93. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011.083

This commentary focuses on the underexplored links between housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Despite significant anecdotal evidence, there is a pressing need for proper theorisation of the connections between housing situation a... Read More about A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery.

Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations (2022)
Journal Article
Clare, N., de Noronha, N., French, S., & Goulding, R. (2022). Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations. Geography Compass, 16(11), Article e12665. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12665

This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are instit... Read More about Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations.

From autonomous to autonomist geographies (2022)
Journal Article
Gray, N., & Clare, N. (2022). From autonomous to autonomist geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 46(5), 1185-1206. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221114347

Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist crit... Read More about From autonomous to autonomist geographies.

Multiplying Labour, Multiplying Resistance: Class Composition in Buenos Aires’ Clandestine Textile Workshops (2020)
Journal Article
Clare, N. (2020). Multiplying Labour, Multiplying Resistance: Class Composition in Buenos Aires’ Clandestine Textile Workshops. Antipode, 52(3), 742-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12611

Buenos Aires’ talleres clandestinos (clandestine textile workshops) are powerful sites of accumulation and resistance; a complex and communitarian migrant economy. The economy’s complexity is, however, masked by its spatiality, clandestinity, and the... Read More about Multiplying Labour, Multiplying Resistance: Class Composition in Buenos Aires’ Clandestine Textile Workshops.

Can the failure speak? Militant failure in the academy (2019)
Journal Article
Clare, N. (2019). Can the failure speak? Militant failure in the academy. Emotion, Space and Society, 33, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100628

Academia is rife with structural issues. We are witnessing a mental health crisis among staff and students, hiring and employment practices are institutionally sexist and racist, and staff are increasingly expected to be a triple threat (research, te... Read More about Can the failure speak? Militant failure in the academy.

Producing territory: territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires (2019)
Journal Article
Mason-Deese, L., Habermehl, V., & Clare, N. (2019). Producing territory: territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires. Geographica Helvetica, 74(2), 153-161. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-153-2019

In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested charac... Read More about Producing territory: territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires.

Composing the social factory: an autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires (2018)
Journal Article
Clare, N. (2019). Composing the social factory: an autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(2), 255-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818805096

Through the creation of an original theoretical framework this paper demonstrates the value of a deeper engagement between autonomist Marxism and (urban) geography. By spatialising arguably the autonomists’ key theoretical contribution – class compos... Read More about Composing the social factory: an autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires.

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine (2018)
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Legg, S., Clare, N., Field, R., Forsyth, I., Freeman, C., French, S., …Soccorsy, E. (2018). Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

A co-authored and co-curated series of reflections on the 2018 UCU strikes in British Universities, protesting against proposed pension reforms.

Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America (2017)
Journal Article
Clare, N., Habermehl, V., & Mason-Deese, L. (2018). Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance, 6(3), 302-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2017.1294989

Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the... Read More about Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America.

Militantly ‘studying up’?: (ab)using whiteness for oppositional research (2017)
Journal Article
Clare, N. (in press). Militantly ‘studying up’?: (ab)using whiteness for oppositional research. Area, 49(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12326

This paper develops the idea of militantly ‘studying up’. Through a discussion of research into the relationship between migrants and social/labour movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it explores the way in which my positionality both helped and hi... Read More about Militantly ‘studying up’?: (ab)using whiteness for oppositional research.