Ioana Florea et al., "Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

New Books in Sociology · Jun 7, 2022 · 1h 18m

Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales. Instead of…