Disclosing Elite Ecologies: Methodologies for "Doing" Urban Elite Research - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367696754 ISBN 13: 9780367696757

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Disclosing elite ecologies: Methodologies for "Doing" Urban Elite Research offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites. Whereas most research has focused on the global super-rich, this book pays specific attention to the multidimensional urban geographies of elite reproduction and transformation, as elites depend on urban contexts for capital accumulation, consumption and leisure, and housing.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, contributing authors discuss various theoretical and methodological antecedents in urban studies and related areas of research that have investigated economic elites. Building on, but also moving beyond these bodies of literature, the book rejects a-priori definitions of the size and shape of this social group and instead pursues relational, place specific conceptualizations of elite composition and behavior. In particular, the contributions to the volume show that urban elite research benefits from paying more attention to: (i) boundary work between elites and non-elites; (ii) intra-elite competition and distinction; (iii) national state spaces in determining elite composition; and (iv) the urban sense of belonging of economic elites.

This extensive volume provides readers with various empirical inroads into the study of urban elites drawing on research set in Brussels, Fez, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, New York City, Paris, and Porto Alegre. Taking inspiration from urban and economic geography, elite theory and urban sociology, cultural sociology, political economy, anthropology, criminology, architecture, and migration studies, this book aims to open up the opportunity for methodological cross-fertilization.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bas van Heur is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

David Bassens

is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367696754
• ISBN 13: 9780367696757
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Van Heur Bas, David Bassens
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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