Title: Stolen Cars: a journey through São Paulo’s urban conflict

Conveners: Gabriel Feltran (University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil) and Janaina Maldonado (University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)

Publisher/Series: Wiley - SUSC Series

Editors: Gabriel Feltran

Publication Date: 2022

ISBN: 9781119686118

Extent (pages): 272

Abstract:

From the moment a car is stolen, many people start to make money. Where is this money circulated? What effects does it have on the legal and illegal economies? How does it impact social and political dynamics? Based on an ethnographical study spanning five years, Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo’s Urban Conflict tracks the journeys of stolen cars, their owners, and their thieves to examine how the patterns and mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence are reproduced. This book follows the supply chain of stolen cars from the streets of São Paulo to the clubs of Berlin, highlighting the integration of global economies through consumption, money laundering, automobile auctions, and the strategies of insurance providers. The authors show that crime and illegal markets are inherent to the construction of cities—not separate criminal underworlds—and are a direct consequence of unequal and violent urban development. Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economies. Drawing upon empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction, Stolen Cars is essential reading and highlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformations.

Presentations: Gabriel Feltran (University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil) and Janaina Maldonado (University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)

Conveners:

Eduardo Barberis (University of Urbino)
Roberta Cucca (Norwegian University of Life Science)
Yuri Kazepov (University of Vienna)
Enrica Morlicchio (University of Naples)
Walter Nicholls (University of California)
Hilary Silver (Brown University)

Publisher/Series:

Edward Elgar Publishing
Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series

Editors:

Yuri Kazepov (University of Vienna), Eduardo Barberis (University of Urbino), Roberta Cucca (Norwegian University of Life Science), Elisabetta Mocca (University of Vienna)

Publication Date: July, 2022

ISBN: 978 1 78811 614 5

Extent (pages): 480 pp

Abstract:

The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis.

This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context and bridges the gap in research. It provides a novel perspective of social policy analysis, answering the common debates such as: what is the role of local institutions in welfare provisions? Do they exert an influence beyond their jurisdiction? What difference can we trace among different types of locales (e.g. urban vs. rural)? How does the role of cities change in different national regulatory systems? Chapters disentangle the interplay between jurisdictions, politics, policy instruments and contexts in the spatial construction of social policies. Thanks to the impressive selection of contributors, the volume discusses urban social policies with broad geographical coverage including cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and provides cursory references to the COVID-19 pandemic in different policy fields.

Presentations:

Presentation of the Handbook (20 min)
Eduardo Barberis (University of Urbino)
Roberta Cucca (Norwegian University of Life Science)
Yuri Kazepov (University of Vienna)

Discussants (45 minutes in total):
Hilary Silver (Brown University)
Enrica Morlicchio (University of Naples)
Walter Nicholls (University of California)

Q&As (20 min)

Conveners: Thomas Maloutas, Nikolaos Karadimitriou

Vertical Cities

Micro-segregation, Social Mix and Urban Housing Markets

Edward Elgar Publishing, Cities series

Edited by Thomas Maloutas and Nikos Karadimitriou

Publication Date: October 2022 ISBN: 978 1 80088 638 4 Extent: c 360 pp

Exploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these effects.

Brief presentations : Thomas Maloutas & Nikos Karadimitriou, Cristina Mattiucci, Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Stavros Spyrellis

Discussion : Edmond Preteceille

Conveners: Professor Stavros Stavrides (NTUA) & Dr Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh)
(Note: we will also invited book authors who are attending the RC21, TBC)

Publisher/Series: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Editors: Professor Stavros Stavrides & Penny Travlou

Publication Date: 11 August 2022

ISBN: HB: 978-1-7869-9998-6

Extent (pages):

Abstract:

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds ‘from below’. Here, Stavros Stavrides and Penny Travlou trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies.Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.

Presentations:

Roundtable presentation with: Book Editors (Stavros Stavrides & Penny Travlou) and contributors (Catalina Ortiz, Lalitha Kamath, Purva Dewoolkar)