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SUMMARY:Housing Markets and the Globalisation of Generational Inequalities
  - Professor Richard Ronald\, University of Amsterdam
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CONTACT:Clare Eaves
DESCRIPTION:The marketisation of housing and the commodification of the ho
 me have been core features of neoliberal social and urban transformations.
  While the impacts have been highly uneven\, in the last decade a more dis
 cernable pattern has emerged in a number of contexts that suggest a partic
 ularly significant divide is developing between older and younger adult co
 horts in regard to housing careers\, routes into adulthood and exposure to
  social and economic risk. In the UK for example\, media attention has tur
 ned in recent years to the issue of ‘generation rent’ and the problems
  now faced by younger people in finding a secure home. I argue that this i
 s a more global phenomenon\, evident in societies as diverse as Japan\, So
 uth Korea\, Australia and the Netherlands. In each context\, I examine how
  various historical contingencies\, institutional legacies and socio-spati
 al relationships are shaping differentiated but clearly evident manifestat
 ions of generational divides in housing markets that have both deep and lo
 ng-term socioeconomic implications. \n\n\n\nBiography\n\nRichard Ronald is
  a Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterda
 m and holds a Chair in Housing and Social Change at the University of Birm
 ingham in the UK. He is the Principal Investigator on the HOUWEL project a
 nd was awarded an Independent Researchers Grant by the European Research C
 ouncil in 2011. Among other functions\, Richard is the editor of the Inter
 national Journal of Housing Policy\, coordinator of the Home Ownership and
  Globalization Working Group of the European Network for Housing Research 
 and convener of the Urban\, Regional and Environmental Studies Section of 
 the European Association for Japanese Studies. He has published widely on 
 housing in relation to social\, economic and urban transformations in Euro
 pe and Pacific Asia including a number of monographs and edited volumes. R
 ichard has held Japan Foundation as well as Japan Society for the Promotio
 n of Science Fellowships at Kobe University in Japan (2002-2006)\, and has
  been a Visiting Professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul\, South Korea 
 (2010-2012). He is originally a graduate of the University of Nottingham a
 nd Nottingham Trent University in the UK where he received his Masters in 
 Critical Theory and PhD in Housing and Urban Studies.\n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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