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Jessie Speer joined the Department of Geography and Environment as an Assistant Professor in 2020. Her research examines struggles around urban domestic space and the margins of housed society. She engages political economic, feminist, and postcolonial approaches to urban displacement, examining how unhoused people contest normative domesticity within capitalist housing markets. Her current book project, based on in-depth ethnographic and archival research, looks into the demolition of homeless encampments in the United States as part of a larger assault on urban informality. Her projects include literary and historical analyses of memoirs and oral histories related to homelessness, as well as legal analyses of the nexus between migration and housing displacement in the United Kingdom. Before entering academia, Jessie practiced law in California, where she worked in legal aid clinics assisting individuals experiencing domestic violence and eviction.
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