IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN
・How clubs create temporary communities and shared identities
・Why dance floors can challenge everyday social boundaries
・How class, gender, and access shape nightlife experiences
#Nightlife #ClubCulture #UrbanSociology
youtu.be/GHTLfWXkBVY
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#urbansociology — Public Fediverse posts
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"Building a shared world": that's what Luca Pattaroni have always been absorbed by. The research of the co-head of the Urban Sociology Laboratory asks what these models of coexistence and collective living might teach the rest of society. He has been studying alternative and countercultural communities at EPFL for almost two decades.
Find out more about him, from the theory and practice of sociology to social justice: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/embracing-difference-is-the-foundation-of-a-shared/
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🆕 Foi publicado mais um número da Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento, o primeiro de 2026. Inclui o dossier temático "Espaços “Periféricos” Contemporâneos da Imagem em Movimento", editado por Filipa Rosário, André Francisco e Fran Rebelatto.
🔓 https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/35
#Histodons #OpenAccess #MovingImage #AcessoAberto #ImagemEmMovimento #Periferias #Periphery #CriticalGeography #UrbanSociology #CulturalStudies #CulturalHistory #Geografia #SociologiaUrbana #EstudosCulturais
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The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers
This episode of QAA goes deep on something I’ve noticed over recent years: since I first started following them it seems that urban exploration YouTube has become increasingly reactionary. Indeed in some cases there are obviously far-right tropes entering into these videos:
https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/london-has-fallen-e356
My sense has always been that there’s a form of the sociological imagination driving this in which viewers follow these creators out of a genuine curiosity about the urban environment and how it is changing. The thoughtful urban explorers touch on a lot of important themes about capitalism, inequality and the urban environment but they do it in an impressionistic, shallow and often banal way. But there are some of them I find very watchable nonetheless. I’ve often thought that there’s a huge opening here for a compelling urban sociologist to build a significant following, meeting the same audience demand in a richer and deeper way. I suspect Les Back for example would be great at this.
In this sense I wonder increasingly if the oversupply problem in digital public engagement (i.e. too much academic content, too small an audience, inadequate delivery mechanisms) could be solved by more targeted genre-based interventions. Indeed it’s suddenly struck me how I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single in situ academic blogger. If anyone can think of an example of this I’d love to see it.
So why are so many of the urban explorers drifting in a reactionary, even far-right, direction. There are a range of potential explanations I can think of:
- Grifting in pursuit of increasingly large reactionary audiences
- The algorithm prioritising reactionary content (is there evidence of YouTube taking an X like turn?)
- These YouTubers being terminally online and being radicalised by other content they are exposed to (including cross-platform discourse)
- The forms of biographical rupture which happen to men in their 20s and 30s driving some of these creators towards radical content
The more interesting aspect of this though would be the nature of the sociological description these YouTubers are engaged in. If you’re setting out to document ‘urban decay’ without any resources for explaining the structural roots of that trend ready-to-hand tropes of urban decay will insert themselves into your narrative. This can’t be pure description. There has to be story telling for compelling content. These stories need mechanisms which drive them. This is where reactionary analysis will fill in the gaps when there’s nothing deeper to draw upon, creating increasingly reactionary interpretations of (impressionistic) observations of urban change. I wonder if this is at least part of the mechanism in some cases.
But I find it hard to watch stuff like this and not think it’s a grift… there’s something so affected about the breathless way in which she purports to be terrified while walking through Whitechapel market (the absence of ‘english faces’) which just seems obviously affected:
https://youtu.be/vQe9uatZ9eE?si=iHLC2o0e_N9G96cu&t=435
I mean there are points in this video which are just obviously bad faith. This Punjabi sign is lingered on in a close up outside Whitechapel station:
Where this is presumably where they were standing, with the Whitechapel sign next to it (in an area with a 33% Bengali population):
So we can see bad faith deception, broader grifting and genuine radicalisation converging in producing these videos. I do wonder if the superficiality of the videos, a constant attention to surface level impressions articulated in the most superficial way, should be considered a separate factor here. Or rather it’s a dimension in which these other aspects converge to maximal effect to produce this increasingly toxic sludge. There’s a constant invocation of ‘english culture’, ‘traditionally english’, ‘quintessentially english’, ‘proper english’, ‘actually english’ (etc) without any attempt to define or explain what these terms mean. Underneath all the other factors I think there’s a genuine lack of curiosity here about the world around them beyond these surface impressions.
#algorithm #digitalPublicEngagement #farRight #lesBack #publicEngagement #race #racism #radicalisation #socialMediaForAcademics #urbanSociology
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On Monday, the 14th #SpaceSyntax Symposium kicks off in Cyprus with an amazing programme full of interesting research on space, #architecture and society.
Here's the Tuesday programme:
https://cyprusconferences.org/14sss/program-tuesday/All papers are clickable and lead to the full text PDF, so lots to explore there (even if you can't go)
@sociology #UrbanSociology #SociologyOfArchitecture #archidon #sss14cy
More details in thread below 👇🏻
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This looks like a great collection of papers on the social value of the built environment and architecture in the journal 'Buildings & Cities'
https://journal-buildingscities.org/collections/social-value
All papers are #OpenAccess
#UrbanSociology #urbanism @sociology #sociology #ArchitecturalResearch #buildings #cities
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@sociology
For English speakers, the work of Federico Cugurullo on 'Frankenstein' #urbanism is mentioned in the article on Masdar City
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Fascinating piece on Masdar City as a failed urban experiment as no one wants to live there
#urbanity #UrbanSociology #Architecture #ClimateCrisis #NetZero @sociologyIn #German though and behind a #paywall - DM me if you want a PDF copy
https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2023-12/masdar-city-klimaneutralitaet-nachhaltigkeit-abu-dhabi/komplettansicht -
#PhDStudentship => Junior researchers in #SocialSciences with a focus on #Energy and #Sustainability
@ LUT University (#Finland)
Deadline: 05/11/2023
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/156429
#Geography #HumanGeography
#EnvironmentalScience
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Sociologically Imagining York - our department has created a podcasted walk through the city of #York - exploring 16 different sites of the city through a #sociological lens. Developed and created by @kathr_ithm and Mary Laing #sociology #urbansociology I really enjoyed contributing! https://www.sociologicallyimaginingyork.com/
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The new series of #SpaceSyntax seminars #SSLseminars is now online - wonderful list of speakers and great topics - kicking off on 5th Oct
Held on zoom, all welcome!
@spacesyntax @sociology
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1) I went to some incredibly thoughtful and well-organized sessions that helped me establish the type of scholarship I want to do in the future. The organizers put time into crafting the panel, and it showed! 2 standouts:
@chrjang & Jennifer Candipan’s #UrbanSociology II panel was possibly the best panel I’ve ever seen at a conference.
Ethan Raker / Kathryn Connell / Lisa Marie Rodriguez’s panel on Disasters and Housing showcased the bright future of #envrionmentalsociology!
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How does similarity and spatial proximity shape neighbour relations within residential buildings?
➡️ #Homophily & spatial proximity predict #WeakTies. More distant building residents may be #FamiliarStrangers or complete #strangers
Our new paper is out and #OpenAccess!
Co-authored with the fabulous
@marinatulin
@pklampros
& Guillaume Favre🔗
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14036096.2023.2247404#Sociology #Sociodon #SocialNetworkAnalysis #urbansociology @sociology
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RC21 (Research Committee on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development) opens the nomination process for nine members of the Board. Deadline to apply: April 30th. All affiliated members and members in good standing (ISA-RC21 members) are eligible.
#urban
#urbanstudies
#urbansociology
#sociologyhttp://www.rc21.org/en/rc21-board-nominations-send-your-candidate-proposals/
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Hoy sale a luz este breve informe que, sin embargo, nos ha llevado no poco tiempo elaborar. Conclusión rápida: los caseros ganan mucho; es necesario regular todos los alquileres para que haya un poco más de redistribución de la riqueza. // On the injustice of rentals in Spain, for a rent regulation now.
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The 14th #spaceSyntax Symposium #sss14cy well be held in Cyprus (and hybrid), 24-27 June 2024. Abstracts are due in September 2023.
A fully online PhD conference is held in addition in June this year. Abstracts due March 27th.
More info: https://cyprusconferences.org/14sss/
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The RN37 – Urban Sociology of ESA is organizing its first Summer School for Young Urban Scholars, an event entirely dedicated to PhD students and young non-tenured researchers. This event will be held in Genoa (Italy) on September 4-6, 2023.
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I am happy to share that Maren Boersma has succeeded in her application for a postdoctoral grant (EU Horizon-Marie Curie Skłodowska programme) to work with us at the IBF (Uppsala, Sweden). Her project is titled “Just Times? Temporalities and Uncertainties for Marginalised Groups in Cities (TimeCity)” and deals with space, temporalities and social conditions of life of domestic migrant workers from Philippines in Hong Kong.
#urban
#urbanstudies
#urbansociology
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FREE ACCESS of this article until the end of March: Loïc Wacquant
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The printed version of our article is now out: Martínez, Miguel A.; Wissink, Bart (2023) The outcomes of residential squatting activism in the context of municipalism and capitalism in Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019). Journal of Urban Affairs 45(1): 65-83. Open Access.
#urban
#urbanstudies
#urbansociology
#socialmovementshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2022.2115921
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Our article in Housing, Theory & Society 40(1) has been published: "State-Led Actions Reigniting the Financialization of Housing in Spain" (with Javier Gil).
This is our twopence contribution to understand the collusion of state and capitalism.
The online version already had almost 3,000 views!
#urban
#urbanstudies
#sociology
#urbansociology
#politicaleconomyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14036096.2021.2013316
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Residential segregation and other historical forces determine where people live, work, and play, and consequently determine their risk of COVID-19 infection and death.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33710272
#NICHDImpact #Segregation #Neighborhoods #UrbanSociology #Race #Covid19 #Disparities @uncpopcenter
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If you are in Amsterdam perhaps you are interested in this event on 8/2.
#urban
#urbanstudies
#urbansociology
#politicaleconomyhttps://spui25.nl/programma/post-growth-planning-cities-beyond-the-market-economy
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YUFE post-doctoral positions on societal challenges in an *urban* context available at UAntwerpen. @[email protected]
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Blacks and Latinos/as are less likely than Whites to move from a poor neighborhood to a non-poor neighborhood & are more likely to move in reverse direction.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31674338
#NICHDImpact @PSID #Race #WealthGap #Neighborhoods #SpatialAssimilation #UrbanSociology #Poverty
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Studentships for Doctoral researchers up to a maximum of £12,000.
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The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure in the area of urban inequality, by January 19, 2023. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor.
#UrbanStudies
#UrbanSociology
#Sociologyhttps://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Urban-Inequality-ON/565973917/
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Interesting article on neighbourhood belonging in Berlin, in times of hyper-mobility and digitalisation, by @TaljaBlokland, @robertvief, Daniela Krüger and Henrik Shultze.
#UrbanStudies
#Sociology
#UrbanSociologyhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980221136960
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So here goes my first toot. Hoping this becomes a healthier community than the birdy thing. I am interested in #criminology #policing #policereform #environmentalcriminology #rstats #SpatialDataScience #greencriminology #urbansociology #climatejustice and related topics. Still keeping my twitter profile 4 a while but will only b posting original material here from now on.