Alva Gotby

What's the solution though... we need ideas

Reading Feeling at Home by @alvagotby.bsky.social
Really generative immanent critique of the housing justice movement and a great application of social reproduction theory to one of the most urgent political-economic problems rn given the role of homeownership and rents in political formation

Hi Doug! Yes please do get in touch with more details, my email is alva.gotby@gmail.com

Feeling at Home Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to im...

My book Feeling at Home is out in paperback today! It's a call for a more radical struggle for housing and a transformed vision of home www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... @versobooks.bsky.social

Nice to see my book in this list of very cool theorists!

Alva Gotby: Other means of dwelling. YouTube video by A is for Architecture Podcast

It was a pleasure to appear on A is for Architecture, to talk about how domestic design relates to dominant family forms and reproductive labour. Listen here (or wherever you go for podcasts) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FiV...

Uncommon Sense: Love & Reproduction, with Alva Gotby Alva Gotby joins Uncommon Sense to discuss love, capitalism and emotional reproduction, explaining how the world might look if this work was reformed.

I had the pleasure to speak to the good people of @thesociologicalreview.org about care, social reproduction, and the labour of love. You can listen to the recording here! thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…” – Spectre Journal Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.

Hey y'all! This week we have @alvagotby.bsky.social interviewing @reproutopia.bsky.social about Sophie's Enemy Feminisms ( @haymarketbooks.org ), the potential for liberatory feminism, and the necessity of reckoning with reactionary feminisms.

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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Lisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentary Culture secretary says BBC must ‘get a grip’ in wake of film featuring son of Hamas official and Bob Vylan Glastonbury row

Yet again, a Labour minister committing to being the worst www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

054 - Affordable homes - Alva Gotby | Free Sex How would housing justice help our sex lives?

Thanks @adamzmith.bsky.social for having me on the Free Sex podcast, where we talk about why housing justice is important for liberating sex
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What makes a home? A transformational politics for housing justice - LSE Review of Books Alva Gotby's Feeling at Home explores the complex interplay of practical and emotional concerns that a home involves, which are often flattened in debates around housing justice. Showing how domestic ...

Another lovely review of Feeling at Home! Get it from the @versobooks.bsky.social website to support an independent publisher

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A wonderful review of Feeling at Home in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. It's amazing to have readers who really get what I tried to do in the book, and to see it inform discussions within the housing movement. @versobooks.bsky.social

In conversation with Alva Gotby We believe in the collective power of tenants to come together to fight for their rights, and use diverse tactics – including direct action when necessary – to achieve this.

Edinburgh friends, come along to this event I'm doing with the wonderful @living-rent.bsky.social on 3rd May!

www.livingrent.org/in_conversat...

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This feels like one of the most bleak days in a long time. The end of the ceasefire, a new low for the UK government, escalating fascism in the US

Transforming the Politics of Housing | Alva Gotby and Helen Hester YouTube video by Verso Books

Rethinking the Politics of Housing: a conversation between myself and @alvagotby.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zOH...

Alva Gotby & Jacob Stringer: The Politics of Home at East Bristol Books EBB is excited to bring two of the most vital commentators on the politics of housing today in Britain and beyond into conversation: Alva Gotby, author of *Feeling at Home* (Verso), and Jacob Stringer...

Come join @alvagotby.bsky.social and I for a discussion of housing and housing organising, Bristol 11th April www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Today I had a small role in resisting an eviction, alongside comrades from London Renters Union. It took 7 hours but eventually the police and bailiffs backed down. It's so important to have these moments of practical solidarity and winning together!

Alva Gotby’s Vision for a Utopian Housing Solution An urgent new book presents a housing vision centred on collectivity and communal living

Holly Pester has written a lovely and thoughtful review of Feeling at Home (and Holly's novel the Lodgers is wonderful too!)

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www.frieze.com/article/alva...

Exciting!

For episode 1 of This Must Be The Place @claraish.bsky.social and @jackwitek.bsky.social spoke to writer and organiser @alvagotby.bsky.social about moving away from the private home, collective living & how vital care is in life and organising

Feeling At Home is out now on @versobooks.bsky.social.

This is of course very good and you should all read it

Domestic Violence Is a Housing Problem The processes of caring work, low pay, and domestic abuse are all intertwined. Women’s caring responsibilities and low income sometimes force them to move in with parents or other family members, or t...

An excerpt from my book Feeling at Home on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

New book by @alvagotby.bsky.social is out! "They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life" was one of the most insightful reads of 2023 - now I’m really excited to read "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" @versobooks.bsky.social

Feeling at Home finally came out this week, published by @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s about the everyday experience of housing, how different models of home shape our subjectivities, and how we could make a different kind of home together. Pictured here with my research assistant.

London friends, come to the launch of Feeling at Home today at Foyles! I'll be speaking about political meaning of housing and home with the amazing Lola Olufemi. @versobooks.bsky.social www.foyles.co.uk/events/alva-...

Tomorrow, @alvagotby.bsky.social launches her new book 'Feeling at Home' at Foyles on Charing Cross Road. I was so fortunate to supervise her PhD, & her work just goes from strength to strength! If you're in London, come & talk about the emotional politics of housing www.foyles.co.uk/events/alva-...

I spotted my new book Feeling at Home out in the world for the first time today, in the company of Pope Francis. It will be officially published on Tuesday (!) by @versobooks.bsky.social

If you read my initial post, you'll see I'm arguing that we need rent controls, not that they are included in the bill. In fact the whole point of the article is that the weakness of the bill is that it doesn't include rent controls.

No rent controls (yet) though!