In this episode Sita is in conversation with journalist and author Kieran Yates to discuss her non-fiction debut, All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us. This book offers an acute portrayal of our defining generational experience: insecure housing. Yates not only captures the everyday details of the housing crisis – the constant movement, the mould blooming in the bathroom, the Spare Room housemate auditions – but reveals the historical forces that brought them into being. The interview explores her experience as a journalist, the making and breaking of post-war housing provision, and the imaginative and collective ways people make homes in the face of exploitation and neglect.
Links: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/All-The-Houses-Ive-Ever-Lived-In/Kieran-Yates/9781398509832
About Structure of Feeling
In this Surviving Society miniseries, Sita Balani draws on the ideas of socialist thinker Raymond Williams who coined the term ‘structure of feeling’ to capture our collective emotional experience of social change. Interviewing Kieran Yates, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Alfie Bown and Tabitha Lasley, these conversations reveal how writing can help us to trace the texture of everyday life, the rhythms of relationships forged as the old social contract frays, and the moments of possibility that emerge in this time of political rupture. These writers document the ways in which powerful political forces are felt in the tempo of an individual life, and the agency we have to shape this changing world.
S1/E1 Sita Balani & Kieran Yates: All the Homes I’ve Ever Lived | Surviving Society Productions podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
