Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of 'the Edges' Of owner-Occupation.

This article offers a critical response to Smith and Wood's concept of "the edges" of owner-occupation. While the category remains analytically diffuse, we argue that digital infrastructures – particularly algorithmic profiling under platform capitalism – render this fragmented population newly gove...

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Publicado en:Housing, Theory & Society Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 148 - 154
Autores principales: Burrows, Roger, Howard, Amber
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2026
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