The human right to housing in the face of land policy and social citizenship : a global discourse analysis / Michael Kolocek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Human Right to Housing in the Face of Land Policy and Social Citizenship; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of States' Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Diffusion Maps; 1 Introduction; Part I Housing, Rights, Land Policy, and Global Social Citizenship; 2 The Monitoring of Human Rights; 2.1 Discourse Analysis; 2.2 The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; 2.3 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 2.4 ICESCR Member States; 2.5 Human Rights between the Spoken Word and the Spatial Reality.
3 Discourses on Housing3.1 Housing and the Law; 3.2 Housing and Discourse Research; 3.3 Homeownership and Renting; 3.4 Homelessness and Spaces of Inadequate Housing; 4 Land Policy Meets Social Citizenship on a Global Level; 4.1 Global Social Citizenship; 4.2 Land Policy and Inadequate Housing; 4.3 A Theory of De-commodification of Land Use; Part II The Discourse on the Human Right Housing Under the Monitoring System of the ICESCR; 5 Changing Views: Housing in the Past Four Decades; 5.1 First Period (1977-1989): The Experimental Phase.
5.2 Second Period (1990-1999): Many Changes, Many Challenges5.3 Third Period (2000-2015): The Rise of Global Social Citizenship; 6 Comparative Discussion: Interpretations of the Human Right to Housing; 6.1 Housing in Numbers: The Global Distribution of Housing Aspects; 6.1.1 Inadequate Housing; 6.1.2 Responding Actors; 6.1.3 Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Groups; 6.1.4 The Committee's View; 6.2 Comparison: Each State Is Unique, But...; 6.2.1 States with Several or No Focal Points; 6.2.2 States with Low Attention; 6.2.3 States Focused on Homelessness or Spaces of Inadequate Housing.
6.2.4 States Raising Their Poverty6.2.5 States on the Road to Social Citizenship; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Court cases; Europe; Germany; United States; States Parties reports under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; States Index; Subject and Author Index.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be able to completely fulfil the human right to housing. For that reason, the book presents a theory of de-commodification of land use that highlights the meaning of land use rights for people affected by inadequate housing. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including social policy, global social policy, human rights law, discourse theory, and sociology will find this study of interest.