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

‘Martínez’s Research Handbook on Urban Sociology brilliantly redefines urban sociology as a field capable of bridging theoretical depth with policy relevance and ethical engagement. Its comprehensive scope and intellectual coherence make it a landmark contribution to contemporary social research. In so doing, the volume offers not only a sophisticated synthesis of urban theory but also a practical reminder that social processes unfolding within urban contexts remain a crucial aspect for any agenda committed to social justice.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology 1Miguel A. MartínezPART I SOCIETY, STATE, CAPITALISM, AND CITIES2 Social and critical features of urban sociology 26Miguel A. Martínez3 The capitalist local state, urban change, and social conflict 50Özlem Çelik4 The city in class perspective 65Ibán Díaz-Parra and Beltrán Roca5 The global city and other fetishes: financial foundations of a mirage 80Mariana Fix6 Rentier and homeowner cities: a long-run comparative history of urban tenure 98Sebastian Kohl7 The flaws of urban financialization and rentierism: not distribution, butexploitation 110Ismael YrigoyPART II REVISITING DEBATES IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY8 Renewing sociological research on the urban with Bourdieu 120Virgílio Borges Pereira9 Urban social ecology and neighbourhood effects revisited 135Ngai-Ming Yip10 Questioning the foundations: the embedded racism in urban sociologytheorization 151Miguel Montalva Barba11 Sociology of gentrification 167Andrej Holm12 Feminist urban sociology and social reproduction 188Bahar Sakõzlõoğlu13 Who cares? The moral architecture of urban conflict 202Tino Buchholz and Jere Kuzmanić14 Planetary urbanisation reloaded: a radical theory for the burning issuesof our time 219Max Rousseau15 Inhabiting the right to the city 236Margherita GrazioliPART III SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATIONS16 Social mix and its critics. Reflections on housing policies 252Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Éric Charmes17 Producing and closing rent gaps: political and social dimensions 269Defne Kadõoğlu18 School choices and gentrification in late capitalist cities: theneighbourhood as a distinction strategy of the middle class 285Carlotta Caciagli19 Use and abuse of the ghetto concept in Chilean urban sociology 299Nicolás Angelcos20 Processes of urban hyper-marginalisation under climate change:examples from Angola and Mozambique 314Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues21 Crime, policing, and youth orientations towards urban futures 326Naomi Van Stapele and Samuel Kiriro22 Feminist urban planning: women transforming territories throughparticipatory action methods 341Blanca Valdivia and Sara Ortiz EscalantePART IV THE HOUSING QUESTION23 Financialization and the rescaling of large developers: the builtenvironment and national business groups 360Ivana Socoloff24 How Airbnb and short-term rentals push the frontier of financialisationthrough housing assetisation 380Javier Gil25 From social housing to upscale regeneration: the pitfalls of residents’participation in Dublin 398Valesca Lima26 Resisting the destruction of home: un-homing and homemaking in theformation of political subjectivities 412Dominika V. Polanska27 Migrants, markets, movements: immigrants and housing as commodityand right in Madrid 428Sophie Gonick28 Socially and culturally produced boundaries in housing access inrelation to sexuality 444Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou29 Urban squatting movements, the right to the city and solidaritynetworks: the case of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil 457Clarissa Cordeiro de Campos30 Urban commons in practice: housing cooperativism and city-making 472Lorenzo VidalPART V SOCIALLY SHAPED CITIES31 Structures and agents: re-scaling citizen participation in urban regeneration 492Luca Sára Bródy32 Temporalities and everyday lives of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong 508Maren K. Boersma33 Urban public space and biopolitical social control 523Jorge Sequera34 The logic of informality in shaping urban collective action in the Global South 538Sonia Roitman and Peter Walters35 Rethinking China’s urbanisation through informal politics 552Yunpeng Zhang36 University as the nexus between the urban and the social 567Do Young Oh37 Looking forward: a research agenda for contemporary urban sociology 583Mika Hyötyläinen and Miguel A. Martínez