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Home, identity, and populism: far-right housing politics beyond neoliberalism in Germany and the UK
Economic Geography, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
Matt Varco
Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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This paper compares far-right positioning on housing policy between Germany and the UK, exploring how housing is framed within nationalist politics. It emerged from our shared interest in how the far right differs between Germany and the UK and draws comparisons between the two contexts. It engages geographical literature on housing and considers how the far right in both contexts may use housing issues as a means to develop policy platforms which depart from conventional neoliberal logics.
This paper compares far-right positioning on housing policy between Germany and the UK,...
