{"id":14794,"date":"2022-11-23T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=14794"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:19:12","slug":"accounting-finance-research-community-seminar-dr-mercy-denedo-and-dr-amanze-ejiogu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/11\/23\/accounting-finance-research-community-seminar-dr-mercy-denedo-and-dr-amanze-ejiogu\/","title":{"rendered":"Accounting & Finance Research Community Seminar – Dr Mercy Denedo and Dr Amanze Ejiogu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cPoor Doors\u201d \u2013 Accountability for the Economic Stigmatisation of Social Housing Tenants<\/p>\n

Date:\u00a0<\/strong>15 February 2023
\nTime: <\/strong>14:00-15:00
\nLocation: <\/strong>NUBS 3.15<\/p>\n

If you would like to attend, please register using the following link: https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/8kwyUUe1tw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guest Speakers:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Mercy Denedo and Dr Amanze Ejiogu<\/p>\n

Dr. Mercy Denedo works in the Accounting Department at Durham University Business School as an Assistant Professor. Her research interest focuses on interdisciplinary studies on accountability in relation to human rights, sustainability accounting, social housing, counter accounting, and sustainable development goals.<\/p>\n

Dr. Amanze Ejiogu is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the Newcastle University Business School. His research interests centre around studying the interface between accounting and society from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective \u2013 how accounting impacts society and in turn is impacted by society. He is also interested in accounting issues as they relate to corruption, transparency, social housing, the public sector, and small business.<\/p>\n

Abstract
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The social housing sector in England accounts for 4.19 million homes representing 17.3% of the total housing stock in England but its significance was largely ignored until mid-2017. The Grenfell Tower fire of 14 June 2017 in which 72 people died changed this. The tragedy served to problematize issues relating to social housing by highlighting:<\/p>\n

\u2022 the nature of the relationship between social housing landlords and tenants.<\/p>\n

\u2022 the stigmatization of social housing tenants<\/p>\n

Indeed, the dominant discourse in the media that surrounds public debates on social housing often portrays them as zones of urban disorder, criminality and menace and represents social housing tenants as benefit cheats and scroungers (Cole and Smith, 1996; Damer, 1992; Hastings, 2004; Slater, 2018).<\/p>\n

One of the overt manifestations of stigma is the \u201cPoor Doors\u201d phenomenon in the London metropolis. Here, when blocks of flats are built with a social housing element in high-value areas, the social housing within the blocks is built to lower specifications and has segregated entrances and communal areas.<\/p>\n

We investigate this phenomenon as part of a wider study into the construction of social housing stigma in England. We conducted 45 individual and 29 focus group interviews with housing associations – frontline officers, directors, and board members: Ministry of Housing officials, advocacy groups, industry associations, politicians, religious leaders, academics, journalists, and social housing tenants. In total, we spoke to over 200 participants.<\/p>\n

We show how housing associations try to sidestep accountability for \u2018poor doors\u2019 by relying on accounting logic. We show how social housing tenants portray this phenomenon as the economic stigmatization of the poor. We also highlight the different means by which tenants try to hold housing associations to account for \u2018poor doors\u2019, including the use of counter-accounts in the media and popular art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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