Interview Files 'The Globalisation of Eviction Enforcement'

The files deposited here are transcripts of audio recorded semi-structured interviews conducted as part of the research project entitled ‘The Globalisation of Eviction Enforcement’, Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project was a study of the international eviction enforcement sector, through case studies of eviction enforcement practices in the UK, Ireland, and South Africa. Interviews are with individuals involved in eviction enforcement, NGOs representing or working with evicted people, and relevant government and civil service figures.Project OutlineThis project aimed to fill a research gap in urban studies and housing scholarship around eviction enforcement. It attempted to understand how eviction enforcement practices, strategies and tactics emerge and disseminate between organizations responsible for physically enforcing evictions. The project sought to explain 3 interlocking research problems:1) How dedicated institutions such as private eviction companies, bailiffs and specific police agencies, and specialised strategies and tactics of forced eviction used by such agencies, are developed and spread.2) How physical and emotional eviction enforcement practices transfer and exchange between contexts and connect to wider networks of land economics and geopolitics.3) How resistance shapes and structures the development and spread of eviction enforcement.This research is motivated by a growing awareness of forced eviction as a global crisis (UN-HABITAT, 2011). The process of forced eviction can be defined as ‘when people are forced out of their homes and off their land, with little notice or none at all, often with the threat or use of violence’ (Amnesty, 2012:2). This study intervenes where recent work has highlighted a research gap around the security and policing agencies of eviction enforcement which physically carry out this work (e.g. Paton and Cooper, 2016). My previous reviews of the literature have emphasised the importance of transnational assemblages of eviction practice (Baker, 2020). Ethnographic case studies conducted by others show how evictions blend different material and emotional processes, producing feelings such as fear, anxiety and exhaustion (e.g. Lancione, 2017; Schoenberger and Beban, 2018). Research from the perspective of anti-eviction movements (Wilde, 2017; Roy, 2017) has often recorded the actions of eviction enforcers such as police and bailiffs in process, yet has not made a full account of the histories and frameworks from which their eviction practices have emerged, and their spread between contexts within this global crisis.This project began in 2019 and concluded September 2023.The project is governed by Ethical Approvals 034997 and 043186.ORCID: 0000-0001-9464-8323

本数据集收录了作为莱弗休姆信托基金资助的研究项目“驱逐执行全球化”的一部分所进行的半结构化访谈的音频记录。该项目旨在对国际驱逐执行领域进行研究，通过英国、爱尔兰和南非驱逐执行实践案例研究进行探讨。访谈对象包括参与驱逐执行的个人、代表或协助被驱逐者的非政府组织以及相关政府及公务员。项目概述：本课题旨在填补城市研究和住房学术领域关于驱逐执行的空白，力图阐释驱逐执行实践、策略和手段如何在负责物理执行驱逐的机构间产生并传播。项目旨在解释三个相互关联的研究问题：1）如何发展并传播诸如私人驱逐公司、执达吏和特定警察机构等专门机构所采用的强制驱逐策略和手段；2）物理和情感驱逐执行实践如何在不同语境间转移和交流，并与更广泛的土地经济和地缘政治网络相连接；3）抵抗如何塑造和构建驱逐执行的演变与传播。本研究源于对强制驱逐作为全球性危机的日益关注（联合国人类居住署，2011年）。强制驱逐的过程可定义为“当人们在没有事先通知或根本无通知的情况下被迫离开家园和土地，通常伴随着暴力的威胁或使用” （大赦国际，2012：2）。本研究介入了近期研究凸显的驱逐执行的安全和执法机构的研究空白（例如，帕顿和库珀，2016年）。我的先前文献综述强调了驱逐实践跨国集合的重要性（贝克，2020年）。其他人的民族志案例研究表明，驱逐过程融合了不同的物质和情感过程，产生了恐惧、焦虑和疲惫等感受（例如，兰基奥内，2017年； schoenberger 和贝班，2018年）。从反驱逐运动的角度进行的（威尔德，2017年； 罗伊，2017年）研究通常记录了驱逐执法者如警察和执达吏的行为，但尚未对这些驱逐实践的历史和框架进行全面的阐述，以及在全球危机背景下这些实践在不同语境间的传播。本项目始于2019年，并于2023年9月结束。项目受伦理批准编号034997和043186监管。ORCID：0000-0001-9464-8323