The three wonderful books I've been reading lately. Brilliant insights about revolutionary thinking, emancipatory change, egalitarian futures and strategies for ecological transformation. We need utopian hope to counter fascism, but also provide sustainable material living conditions for everyone.

Inspiring reading today: "LIBERTOPIA: An Intellectual Stroll in Berlin's Tempelhof Park", by Asef Bayat. Indeed, I conducted a couple of interviews about this case just before the Covid-19 pandemic, but I could not return to Berlin nor to my project. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Nos entrevistaron aquí con motivo de nuestro último libro. Con estas respuestas me parece que casi hemos escrito un capítulo extra :) www.nocierreslosojos.com/iban-diaz-pa...

Two-days "paper development workshop" in Geneva about housing, illegality, criminality and all the complexities, contradictions and nuances one should expect when dealing with this topic. It's been much better and more intellectually challenging than most conventional conferences!

PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF URBAN STUDIES at the University of Helsinki. The position will focus on the study of inequality and segregation at the urban and regional levels. Deadline: Sept. 24, 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #urban #sociology

Useful reflections on the labour of doctoral supervision in a caring and collective fashion versus the traditional Master-apprentice model, by Defne Kadioglu and Chiara Valli. ojs.mau.se/index.php/Jo...

Freshly arrived today! A brilliant research by @sailamaria.bsky.social that adds up lots of arguments and evidence on urban squatting/occupations. Congrats!

My academic reading today was on the protests of research subjects about 'academic extractivism' in Chile's urban "poblaciones" when participatory/activist research is not even intended from the very beginning of a study. Great reflections and lessons to learn! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📣 CfP: PLACES OF STRUGGLE, STRUGGLE FOR PLACES:On the Reconfiguration of Political Commitment in a World of Despair. How do political struggles shape space. April 9–10, 2026. Montréal, Québec, Canada. Abstract deadline: September 15, 2025. www.capedmontreal.com/ #urban #sociology

Another interesting article came to my inbox: on the "temporal power" of urban activists in three cases/contexts (Helsinki, St. Petersburg and NYC)."Temporalities of Closure in Urban Planning Conflicts" by Veikko Eranti and Anna Zhelnina. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Interesting qualitative research on the publication strategies of social scientists in Denmark, who try to play the game of reaching top-US journals. The authors take an organisational/institutional and interactionist approach, not a political economy one. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interessant estudi de diversos processos de reapropiació col·lectiva de la ciutat, des de lògiques d'autogestió d'espais i articulació de comuns urbans. @miguel-martinez.bsky.social, Ibán Díaz ⬇️ www.akal.com/libro/centro...

Magnífico libro de Irene Sabaté sobre los problemas de vivienda vividos por distintos tipos de mujeres del área metropolitana de Barcelona. Además de ofrecer un mapa detallado y complejo de la precariedad habitacional, explora sus dimensiones interseccionales, de economía política y +

1. El mercado de alquiler no está controlado por “pequeños propietarios”. Los caseros son la población con más renta del país y suelen tener varias viviendas alquiladas. Pero el mito del "casero particular" se usa para frenar cualquier regulación favorable a los inquilinos.

Nuestro nuevo libro ya está impreso y distribuído!! Y a un precio muy asequible :) Ojalá os interese! www.akal.com/libro/centro...

What thinking sociologically really means? Editor-in-Chief Carin Runciman shares insights from The Sociological Review’s editors about how they choose the scholarship that shapes the Journal. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun... #urban #sociology

Reading today: "Writing with research partners ‘from the field’: Plural knowledges and epistemic justice in qualitative research" by Martina Blank. It adds an interesting literature review and some practical tips + journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Call for Papers: Contested urban policy: breeding concrete utopias. Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2025. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/en/planningt... #urban #sociology

Next week in Frankfurt, and online, if interested: Challenges and opportunities for contemporary housing activism. Meetings with Master and Doctoral students too. Looking forward to it!

The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.

Many sociologists who read The Sociological Imagination perhaps overlooked the brilliant The Power Elite by the same C. Wright Mills. From his analysis in the 1950s to present Trump's dystopian times, this article dissects some of the key trends and lessons. newrepublic.com/article/1938...

Why social science matters? Social science is highly relevant to helping us understand and manage many of the issues facing society, the environment, the economy and places. They make a positive contribution to our daily lives. More evidence and arguments here acss.org.uk/what-is-soci... #sociology

TOMORROW: join us for 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events. 🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Sign up: buff.ly/xE1NHos

Francesca Ru (the doctoral student I am supervising) has written a brilliant article about the collapse of buildings in Marseille and the grassroots reactions to claim for the truth, reparations, and prevention, in the context of the housing crisis. jacobin.com/2025/05/fran...

Sobre cómo la precariedad laboral, el racismo y la especulación inmobiliaria pueden resultar en la muerte de quien sufre todo eso a la vez. Quizá así se entienda mejor que "okupar" a menudo es solo un recurso más para sobrevivir en una sociedad profundamente injusta. www.eldiario.es/catalunya/jo...

Create community/ies, above all! "In academia, success is measured by research outputs, teaching excellence, and career progression. Yet, the relationships that sustain us receive far less attention, particularly in scholarly publication." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

15th Conference of Environmental Sociologists​: Deep Transition? Wars, conflicts and socio-ecological transformations. 8-10 September 2025 University of Turin. Send abstracts by 9 May 2025 to [email protected]. #urban #sociology

How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️ In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️ doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Timely and solid theoretical critique of urban sustainability: "There is a division of labour within the capitalist class. Some capitalists (and class fractions) can accumulate ‘green’ at an urban scale, while others continue to pour oil, gas and coal into the system at large."

Why is "sustainability" most popular at the urban scale? And why are the “world’s greenest cities” always affluent cities in the Global North? Read my critique of "urban sustainability" in this new IJURR-paper.

Universities that are complicit with the genocide of Palestinians: www.tni.org/en/article/t...

Interested on Bourdieu's sociological theory of class? A Marxist critique may shed light on its weaknesses (and strengths): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Free access via michaelamccarthy.net/writing/

Ya está nuestra publicación "Poder Inquilino". Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre el mercado inmobiliario y las estrategias para organizarnos contra el rentismo. De puede comprar y descargar en @traficantes-ed.bsky.social @traficantes.bsky.social traficantes.net/libros/poder...

One year ago, this massive book (600 pages) was released. The line-up of contributors is simply amazing! Free download from LibGen and Z-Library, but it can also be bought at 50% discount with the AAG50 code until April 30. I'll be pleased if you share it and comment! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

Interesting research on squatting and discourses on urban (in)security in Milan, by Giacomo Pozzi: Very sneaky crimes. Squatting, urban security, and class anthropopoiesis in Milan (Italy). (And other articles on European debt in the same issue). www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

If interested on squatting, this open-access book offers key insights. It covers its theorisation as a movement, its autonomist politics, relevant socio-spatial structures, types of squatting, legalisation, and criminalisation issues. Free download here: www.miguelangelmartinez.net?Squatters-in...

Interesting reflection on the limitations of standard academic writing following the IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion). Long article in comments. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Lecture by Loïc Wacquant: A historicist-analytical approach to racial domination. Thursday, March 6 @14:30CET. Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/65535789369. Meeting ID: 655 3578 9369. #urban #sociology

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.

I have a chapter on housing activism in this interesting book (I share my chapter on demand and on my webpage). www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

As #IWD2025 approaches, what does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class? Join Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the Foundation's debut Conversations event. 📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025 thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Lecture by Maan Barua: An Amphibious Urbanism. 06 March 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online). Cities are Back in Town / SciencesPo. www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit... #urban #sociology

@tninstitute.bsky.social 13th State of Power report. Read more 👉 www.tni.org/en/publicati...

Solo un 3% de la sociedad israelí ve inmoral cometer la limpieza étnica definitiva en Gaza para convertir la franja en un resort de sol y playa para los ricos del mundo construido sobre la sangre de decenas de miles de palestinos. Lo que con terror empieza, con terror distópico acaba.

Open Calls for international fellowships for the 2025/2026 academic year. at CAS Sofia (Bulgaria). Application deadline: 31 March 2025. cas.bg/en/cas-sofia... #urban #sociology

See our latest special issue about housing activism: Struggling for housing justice – new theoretical and methodological approaches, with @jiegson.bsky.social @listerborn.bsky.social Irene Molina as guest editors. www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/4...

Welcome to submit an abstract to the symposium "The political economy of housing production under late neoliberalism" at UCL, May 2025. We anticipate it will lead to a Special Issue in Housing, Theory and Society. Deadline March 3. The link for submitting an abstract: forms.office.com/e/CMBGJcGGQ4

Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper together with S. Banabak & L. Plank: Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing. Published in European Urban and Regional Studies. / Key points Thread 1/n journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏠How can we meet housing needs within planetary boundaries? IIPP PhD Candidate Stefan Horn examines how to meet net-zero targets while also meeting urgent housing needs, with a specific focus on the UK housing crisis. ✍️Learn more here: https://buff.ly/3PoZxGM