Research handbook on urban sociology / edited by Miguel A. Martínez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martínez, Miguel A., Editor.

Contributor:

Martínez, Miguel A., editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in sociology.

Research Handbooks in Sociology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (656 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edward Elgar Monographs 2024

Summary:

"Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents a unique collection of theoretical and empirical perspectives on urban sociology. Bringing together expert contributors from across the world, it provides a rich overview and research agenda for contemporary urban sociological scholarship. Chapters highlight the macro-historical context of the urban, and conduct a critical and reflexive review of mainstream theories and concepts. They examine key debates in urban sociology, analysing varied approaches to gentrification, neighbourhood effects, race and gender. Looking beyond the dominant anglophone academic sphere, contributors explore case studies from diverse world regions and local settings. Ultimately, the Research Handbook clarifies and advances the wide range of contemporary sociological approaches to urban studies.The Research Handbook on Urban Sociology will prove to be a vital read for researchers and students across sociology, geography, anthropology, urban planning and design, economics and political science. It will also be of great benefit to practitioners and policy-makers seeking to better understand the urban space." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology

Part I Society, state, capitalism, and cities

2. Social and critical features of urban sociology

3. The capitalist local state, urban change, and social conflict

4. The city in class perspective

5. The global city and other fetishes: financial foundations of a mirage

6. Rentier and homeowner cities: a long-run comparative history of urban tenure

7. The flaws of urban financialization and rentierism: not distribution, but exploitation

Part II Revisiting debates in urban sociology

8. Renewing sociological research on the urban with Bourdieu

9. Urban social ecology and neighbourhood effects revisited

10. Questioning the foundations: the embedded racism in urban sociology theorization

11. Sociology of gentrification

12. Feminist urban sociology and social reproduction

13. Who cares? The moral architecture of urban conflict

14. Planetary urbanisation reloaded: a radical theory for the burning issues of our time

15. Inhabiting the right to the city

Part III Socio-spatial segregations

16. Social mix and its critics: reflections on housing policies

17. Producing and closing rent gaps: political and social dimensions

18. School choices and gentrification in late capitalist cities: the neighborhood as a distinction strategy of the middle class

19. Use and abuse of the ghetto concept in Chilean urban sociology

20. Processes of urban hyper-marginalisation under climate change: examples from Angola and Mozambique

21. Crime, policing, and youth orientations towards urban futures

22. Feminist urban planning: women transforming territories through participatory action methods

Part IV The housing question.

23. Financialization and the rescaling of large developers: the built environment and national business groups

24. How Airbnb and short-term rentals push the frontier of financialisation through housing assetisation

25. From social housing to upscale regeneration: the pitfalls of residents' participation in Dublin

26. Resisting the destruction of home: un-homing and homemaking in the formation of political subjectivities

27. Migrants, markets, movements: immigrants and housing as commodity and right in Madrid

28. Socially and culturally produced boundaries in housing access in relation to sexuality

29. Urban squatting movements, the right to the city and solidarity networks: the case of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

30. Urban commons in practice: housing cooperativism and city-making

Part V Socially shaped cities

31. Structures and agents: re-scaling citizen participation in urban regeneration

32. Temporalities and everyday lives of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong

33. Urban public space and biopolitical social control

34. The logic of informality in shaping urban collective action in the Global South

35. Rethinking China's urbanisation through informal politics

36. University as the nexus between the urban and the social

37. Looking forward: a research agenda for contemporary urban sociology

Index.

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ISBN:

1-80088-890-2