Research Handbook on Urban Sociology (Research Handbooks in Sociology series)

Front Matter
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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
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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