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elaraks.bsky.social
Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of Radical Housing Journal editorial collective
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The giant housing association Clarion Housing Group is trying to victimise those who complain of service failures, but our members are fighting back and won't be intimidated. #ShacAction shaction.org/2025/02/19/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

@kwajo.bsky.social I am a PhD student looking to interview Eastfields, High Path, & Ravensbury residents (past and present) who have experienced damp and mould. Would you consider sharing this poster? Thank you!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Shocking aerial images of urbicide in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

MOULD. It's political. Important new open access paper by Elara Shurety on housing, mould and toxicity Elara is a King's College London PhD candidate I supervise with Phil Hubbard (@gypjh2000.bsky.social) in the Urban Futures research group journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing as it's the new year, I'll begin by resharing my paper which was published at a very inopportune time (Xmas Eve) – on mouldy housing, race, slow violence, and "toxic" black mould 🦠🦠. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

happy everyone's sending all their emails day to all who celebrate

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

You know when PhD students spend a few months at a different uni (often in different countries) – how do they get to do this? What are they doing? Are there specific programmes? Where do you find them? Etc (AKA, it's the first Monday of January and I'm looking for ways to leave the UK...)

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

I demand to be named as a co-author… (seriously though, looks like an important piece!)

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Published over xmas (thanks publishers!) but very excited to see Elara Shurety's first paper from her PhD studies of domestic mould. Important stuff and there is a lot more to come! bsky.app/profile/elar...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

SHAC on Sky News: Disrepairs Sky News exposed appalling disrepairs & reported on increased complaints to the Housing Ombudsman. A failure of govt enforcement. LAs suffer budget cuts, but HAs have a surplus of £4.4 billion. Rents are up. They can't plead poverty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3x7...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting new paper in Progress in Environmental Geography by @elaraks.bsky.social, interpreting damp and moldy housing through the lens of toxic geographies to understand (slow) violence and harm in/through housing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

🦠 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🦠 'Moldy homes: #Toxicity, #race, and the geographies of domestic #mold' by Elara Shurety journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @elaraks.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Nearly 160,000 children in England will wake up on Christmas Day homeless and in temporary accommodation It is not families who are failing, families have been failed Just pressed submit on book manuscript landing in 2025 #homelessness #temporaryaccommodation #debt #England

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an essay about how civil society organising has become dominated by NGOs and the projectariat @damagemag.bsky.social The failed Participatory City project in London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is our example 'Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions' damagemag.com/2024/06/24/b...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

ALWAYS thinking about these pics I came across in @bencampkin.bsky.social 's Remaking London (from the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre) of model fleas, rats, bedbugs, and cockroaches being burnt during slum clearances in Somers Town, 1929 ...🪳🪳

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

This article is harrowing and a difficult read, but really neatly evidences the key structural issue facing the housing crisis: namely slum landlordism and the grip on the political and social narrative in the UK /🧵

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Really great article from @shacaction.bsky.social on Awaab’s Law, outlining the troubling barriers set to restrict residents’ ability to access the justice the Bill purports to provide

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Have been trying to find people to follow here for the past few days & been absently wondering why I seem to be coming across a higher proportion of US accounts than I do elsewhere … but only just remembered why that might be the case due to events in recent months lol

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Less than 30% of tenant complaints to LA EHOs even result in an inspection. And that is English national average. Half of all inspections were carried out by just 20 authorities out of 295. So the odds of getting a response, let alone enforcement, are, depending on area, very poor indeed.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

'State-led gentrification'? New on Substack, part II of my post on Southwark's Aylesbury Estate looks at its controversial and long-running regeneration: open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Resharing here my (first ever!) peer-reviewed paper from 2021, published in the Radical Housing Journal: radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/securin... It argues property guardianship is a method of not only building security but also dispersed policing in urban spaces (particularly regenerating ones).

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment