Research Handbook on Urban Sociology

Edited by Miguel A. Martínez, Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology, Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology 1
Miguel A. Martínez

PART I SOCIETY, STATE, CAPITALISM, AND CITIES
2 Social and critical features of urban sociology 26
Miguel A. Martínez
3 The capitalist local state, urban change, and social conflict 50
Özlem Çelik
4 The city in class perspective 65
Ibán Díaz-Parra and Beltrán Roca
5 The global city and other fetishes: financial foundations of a mirage 80
Mariana Fix
6 Rentier and homeowner cities: a long-run comparative history of urban tenure 98
Sebastian Kohl
7 The flaws of urban financialization and rentierism: not distribution, but
exploitation 110
Ismael Yrigoy

PART II REVISITING DEBATES IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY
8 Renewing sociological research on the urban with Bourdieu 120
Virgílio Borges Pereira
9 Urban social ecology and neighbourhood effects revisited 135
Ngai-Ming Yip
10 Questioning the foundations: the embedded racism in urban sociology
theorization 151
Miguel Montalva Barba
11 Sociology of gentrification 167
Andrej Holm
12 Feminist urban sociology and social reproduction 188
Bahar Sakõzlõoğlu
13 Who cares? The moral architecture of urban conflict 202
Tino Buchholz and Jere Kuzmanić
14 Planetary urbanisation reloaded: a radical theory for the burning issues
of our time 219
Max Rousseau
15 Inhabiting the right to the city 236
Margherita Grazioli

PART III SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATIONS
16 Social mix and its critics. Reflections on housing policies 252
Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Éric Charmes
17 Producing and closing rent gaps: political and social dimensions 269
Defne Kadõoğlu
18 School choices and gentrification in late capitalist cities: the
neighbourhood as a distinction strategy of the middle class 285
Carlotta Caciagli
19 Use and abuse of the ghetto concept in Chilean urban sociology 299
Nicolás Angelcos
20 Processes of urban hyper-marginalisation under climate change:
examples from Angola and Mozambique 314
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
21 Crime, policing, and youth orientations towards urban futures 326
Naomi Van Stapele and Samuel Kiriro
22 Feminist urban planning: women transforming territories through
participatory action methods 341
Blanca Valdivia and Sara Ortiz Escalante

PART IV THE HOUSING QUESTION
23 Financialization and the rescaling of large developers: the built
environment and national business groups 360
Ivana Socoloff
24 How Airbnb and short-term rentals push the frontier of financialisation
through housing assetisation 380
Javier Gil
25 From social housing to upscale regeneration: the pitfalls of residents’
participation in Dublin 398
Valesca Lima
26 Resisting the destruction of home: un-homing and homemaking in the
formation of political subjectivities 412
Dominika V. Polanska
27 Migrants, markets, movements: immigrants and housing as commodity
and right in Madrid 428
Sophie Gonick
28 Socially and culturally produced boundaries in housing access in
relation to sexuality 444
Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
29 Urban squatting movements, the right to the city and solidarity
networks: the case of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil 457
Clarissa Cordeiro de Campos
30 Urban commons in practice: housing cooperativism and city-making 472
Lorenzo Vidal

PART V SOCIALLY SHAPED CITIES
31 Structures and agents: re-scaling citizen participation in urban regeneration 492
Luca Sára Bródy
32 Temporalities and everyday lives of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong 508
Maren K. Boersma
33 Urban public space and biopolitical social control 523
Jorge Sequera
34 The logic of informality in shaping urban collective action in the Global South 538
Sonia Roitman and Peter Walters
35 Rethinking China’s urbanisation through informal politics 552
Yunpeng Zhang
36 University as the nexus between the urban and the social 567
Do Young Oh
37 Looking forward: a research agenda for contemporary urban sociology 583
Mika Hyötyläinen and Miguel A. Martínez