Teaching / Urban Sociology

(2024) Urban Sociology

Urban Sociology

Lecture 1

Gans, H. J. (2002). The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View. City & Community 1(4): 329-339.

Mayer, M. (2016) Neoliberal Urbanism and Uprisings Across Europe. In Mayer, M., Thörn, C., Thörn, H. (Eds.) Urban Uprisings. Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 57-92.

Lecture 2

Brenner, N. & Schmid, C. (2017) Elements for a New Epistemology of the Urban. In Hall, S. & Burdett, R. (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. London: Sage, pp. 47-67.

Storper, M. & Scott, A. (2016) Current debates in urban theory: A critical assessment. Urban Studies 53(6): 1114-1136.

Lecture 3

Madden, D. & Marcuse, P. (2016) In defense of housing. The politics of crisis. London: Verso, pp. 15-52 (Against the Commodification of Housing).

Aalbers, M. & Christophers, B. (2014) Centring Housing in Political Economy. Housing, Theory and Society 31(4): 373-394.

Lecture 4

Martínez López, M. (2019) Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy. In Yip, Ngai Ming, Miguel A. Martínez & Xiaoyi Sun (eds.) Contested Cities and Urban Activism. Singapore: Palgrave, 25-45.

Polanska, D. & Richard, Å. (2021) Resisting renovictions: Tenants organizing against housing companies’ renewal practices in Sweden. Radical Housing Journal 3(1), p. 187-205.

Lecture 5

Fenster, T. (2005). The right to the gendered city: different formations of belonging in everyday life. Journal of Gender Studies 14(3), 217-231.

Spain, D. (2002). What happened to gender relations on the way from Chicago to Los Angeles? City & Community 1(2), 155-169.

Lecture 6

Blokland, T. (2017) The Public Life of Social Capital. In Hall, S. & Burdett, R. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. London: SAGE, chapter 30.

Mitchell, D. (2003) The right to the city. Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. New York: Guilford, chapter 4.

Lecture 7

Jargowsky, P. A. (2020) Racial and economic segregation in the US: overlapping and reinforcing dimensions. In S. Musterd (ed) Handbook of Urban Segregation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 151– 168. E-book accessible through Uppsala university library.

Wacquant, L. (2007) Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality. Thesis Eleven 91(1): 66 – 77.

Wilson, W. (1987) The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy. University of Chicago Press, pp. 20 – 62.

Slater, T. (2013) Your Life Chances Affect Where You Live: A Critique of the ‘Cottage Industry’ of Neighbourhood Effects Research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37(2), pp. 367–87 DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2013.01215.x

Lecture 8

Bridge, Gary (2001) Bourdieu, Rational Action and the Time-Space Strategy of Gentrification. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26(2).

Smith, Neil. (1979) Toward a theory of Gentrification: A back to the city movement by Capital, not People. Journal of American Planning association 45(4): 538-548.

Andersson, R., & Turner, L. M. (2014) Segregation, gentrification, and residualisation: from public housing to market-driven housing allocation in inner city Stockholm. International Journal of Housing Policy, 14(1), 3-29.

Gotham, K. F. (2002) Marketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, spectacle and the political economy of tourism in New Orleans. Urban Studies, 39(10), 1735-1756.

Young, C., Diep, M., & Drabble, S. (2006) Living with difference? The ’cosmopolitan city’ and urban reimaging in Manchester, UK. Urban Studies, 43(10), 1687-1714.

Other readings

Bourlessas, P. (2018) ‘These people should not rest’: mobilities and frictions of the homeless geographies in Athens city centre. Mobilities 13(5): 746-760.

Brenner, N. & Schmid, C. (2015) Combat, Caricature & Critique in the Study of Planetary Urbanization. https://www.academia.edu/37576921/

Bruun, M. (2015) Communities and the Commons: Open Access and Community Ownership of the Urban Commons. In Borch, C & Kornberger, M (Eds.) Urban Commons: Rethinking the City. London: Routledge, pp. 153-170.

Card, K. (2019) Urban Commons. In H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Sheppard (eds.), Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory, Method, Practice, London: Sage, pp. 308–310.

Marcuse, P. (2009) From critical urban theory to the right to the city. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 13, 2-3: 185-197.

Polanska, D.V. & Richard, Å. (2019) Narratives of a fractured trust in the Swedish model: Tenants’ emotions of renovation. Culture Unbound 11, (1): 141-164.

Piazza, G. & Frazzeta, F. (2019) Squatted Social Centres Activists and ‘Locally Unwanted Land Use’ Movements in Italy: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Case Studies. In Yip, Ngai Ming, Miguel A. Martínez & Xiaoyi Sun (eds.) Contested Cities and Urban Activism. Singapore: Palgrave, 199-225.

Schmid, C. (2018) Journeys through planetary urbanization: Decentering perspectives on the urban. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(3): 591–610

Scott, A. J. & Storper, M. (2014) The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39 (1): 1–15.

Sorvoll, J. & Bengtsson, B. (2018) The Pyrrhic victory of civil society housing? Co-operative housing in Sweden and Norway. International Journal of Housing Policy 18(1): 124-142.

Thompson, M. (2020) Reconstructing public housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 3-26.

Kalyukin, A., Borén, T. & Byerley, A. (2015) The second generation of post-socialist change: Gorky Park and public space in Moscow. Urban Geography 36(5): 674-695.

Valentine, G. (1989). The geography of women’s fear. Area 21(4), 385-390.

Wachsmuth, D., & Weisler, A. (2018) Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50(6), 1147-1170.

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Published: 21 January 2021
Keywords: Theory, Spaces, Housing, Activism