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Overview

Keith Jacobs is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with significant contributions to economics, econometrics, and finance. This work engages particularly with topics at the intersection of housing, finance, and neoliberalism, as well as housing market dynamics and economics.

Their body of work spans across several key themes including urban planning and governance, political and economic history of the UK and US, participatory visual research methods, and intersections between art therapy and mental health.

Recent publications by Keith Jacobs include:

  • What future for public housing? A critical analysis, 2024, published in eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania)
  • Political economy perspectives and their relevance for contemporary housing studies, 2022, published in Housing Studies

Keith Jacobs frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Kathleen Flanagan, Rowland Atkinson, Terry Burke, Kathy Arthurson, and Jeff Malpas. These collaborations have contributed to research outputs across various facets of housing studies and related social science disciplines.

The venues where Keith Jacobs has commonly published are:

  • Housing Studies
  • eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania)
  • AHURI Final Report
  • Housing Theory and Society
  • Qualitative Research

Their research is characterized by multidisciplinary approaches covering sociology, political science, finance, urban studies, economics, econometrics, and demography. They hold a notable presence in housing-related discourse, with extensive work on neoliberal influences on housing finance and policy.

Best Publications

  • Housing and Social Theory

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  • Discourse Analysis and its Utility for Urban Policy Research

    Keith Jacobs

  • Evaluating the Social Constructionist Paradigm in Housing Research

    Keith Jacobs;Tony Manzi

  • Conceptualising and measuring the housing affordability problem

    Michelle Gabriel;Keith Jacobs;Kathy Arthurson;Terry Burke

  • Conceptualising and measuring the housing affordability problem: National Research Venture 3: Housing Affordability for Lower Income Australians: research paper 1

    Michelle Gabriel;Keith Jacobs;Kathy Arthurson;Terry Burke

  • Power, discursive space and institutional practices in the construction of housing problems

    Keith Jacobs;Jim Kemeny;Tony Manzi

  • the struggle to define homelessness: a constructivist approach

    Jim Kemeny;Keith Jacobs;Tony Manzi

  • Discourse and policy change: The significance of language for housing research

    Keith Jacobs;Tony Manzi

  • Social constructionism in housing research

    Keith Jacobs;Jim Kemeny;Tony Manzi

  • Discourses of Social Exclusion: An Analysis of Bringing Britain Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

    Paul Watt;Keith Jacobs

  • A Critique of the Concept of Social Exclusion and Its Utility for Australian Social Housing Policy

    Kathryn Arthurson;Keith Jacobs

  • New Localism, Old Retrenchment: the 'Big Society', housing policy and the politics of welfare reform

    Keith Jacobs;Tony Manzi

  • What future for public housing? A critical analysis

    Keith Jacobs;Rowland Atkinson;Angela Spinney;Val Colic-Peisker

  • Key Themes and Future Prospects: Conclusion to the Special Issue:

    Keith Jacobs

  • Performance indicators and social constructivism: conflict and control in housing management

    Keith Jacobs;Tony Manzi

  • Waterfront Redevelopment: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policy-making Process within the Chatham Maritime Project:

    Keith Jacobs

  • Public Housing in Australia: Stigma, Home and Opportunity

    Rowland Atkinson;Keith Jacobs

  • Material Objects, Identity and the Home: Towards a Relational Housing Research Agenda

    Keith Jacobs;Jeff Malpas

  • Social exclusion and housing. Final Report

    Kathy Arthurson;Keith Jacobs

  • The Post-Social Turn: Challenges for Housing Research

    Michelle Gabriel;Keith Jacobs

  • The inclusive society: Social exclusion and new Labour

    KA Jacobs

  • Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets

    Keith Jacobs

  • Gentrification and the middle classes

    KA Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Cameron Duff
Cameron Duff RMIT University
Carol T. Kulik
Carol T. Kulik University of South Australia
Rebecca Bentley
Rebecca Bentley University of Melbourne
Andrew Gamble
Andrew Gamble University of Sheffield
Joni Lovenduski
Joni Lovenduski Birkbeck, University of London

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