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研究汉dbook on Urban Sociology
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.
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘In an excellent collection of essays that outline the contours defining urban sociology, we are introduced to a new perspective to comprehend contemporary urban sociological imagination. In this Research Handbook we can explore categories, analyse the discursive and distinguish it from the practices that structure the material, the political and the cultural as these are lived in relation to physical space. This Handbook of original research essays presents to us an incisive analysis of what sociology can offer to urban studies- a criticality and a reflexivity regarding received theories combining it with an empirical analysis of how capitalism and the state impacts the urban, the complex ways structural inequalities and exclusions affect segregation and shape group agencies and how in turn, these affect urban forms and refashion them. A must read for all students, researchers and teachers.’
– Sujata Patel, University of Hyderabad, India and editor of Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India
‘This rich and varied collection, focused on recent theory and research, will educate and stimulate students of the city from across the social sciences and the humanities.’
– Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, US, and author of The Invention of the “Underclass” and Bourdieu in the City
‘An excellent overview that covers a rich and varied collection of urban sociological scholarship. Accessible, comprehensive, engaging, and always with a critical edge – this is a vital overview of recent thinking about cities. The collection gives space to up-and-coming young scholars from a variety of regional backgrounds, bringing both fresh air into long-established debates and offering new perspectives on what an urban sociology for the 21st century might look like. A must-read for urban scholars and students alike.’
– Matthias Bernt, Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany, and author of The Commodification Gap
– Sujata Patel, University of Hyderabad, India and editor of Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India
‘This rich and varied collection, focused on recent theory and research, will educate and stimulate students of the city from across the social sciences and the humanities.’
– Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, US, and author of The Invention of the “Underclass” and Bourdieu in the City
‘An excellent overview that covers a rich and varied collection of urban sociological scholarship. Accessible, comprehensive, engaging, and always with a critical edge – this is a vital overview of recent thinking about cities. The collection gives space to up-and-coming young scholars from a variety of regional backgrounds, bringing both fresh air into long-established debates and offering new perspectives on what an urban sociology for the 21st century might look like. A must-read for urban scholars and students alike.’
– Matthias Bernt, Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany, and author of The Commodification Gap
Contributors
Contributors include: Nicolás Angelcos, Marie-Hélène Bacqué, Maren K. Boersma, Virg’lio Borges Pereira, Luca Sára Bródy, Tino Buchholz, Carlotta Caciagli, Clarissa Cordeiro de Campos, Özlem Çelik, Éric Charmes, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Ibán Díaz-Parra, Mariana Fix, Javier Gil, Sophie Gonick, Margherita Grazioli, Andrej Holm, Mika Hyötyläinen, Defne Kadıoğlu, Samuel Kiriro, Sebastian Kohl, Jere Kuzmanić, Valesca Lima, Miguel A. Mart’nez, Miguel Montalva Barba, Do Young Oh, Sara Ortiz Escalante, Dominika V. Polanska, Beltrán Roca, Sonia Roitman, Max Rousseau, Bahar Sakızlıoğlu, Jorge Sequera, Ivana Socoloff, Naomi van Stapele, Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Blanca Valdivia, Lorenzo Vidal, Peter Walters, Ngai-Ming Yip, Ismael Yrigoy, Yunpeng Zhang
