Publications

Here we collect the publications related to the theme within The Housing and Urban Justice Project, which the program's researchers have published in recent years.

Publications 2024

Martínez, Miguel A. (Ed.) (2024). Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Vidal, Lorenzo; Gil, Javier; Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Accommodating ‘generation rent’: Unsettling dominant discourses on rental housing reform in Catalonia and Spain. Urban Studies 61(11): 2060-2079.

Martínez, Miguel A. & Gil, Javier (2024). Grassroots Struggles Challenging Housing Financialization in Spain. Housing Studies 9(6): 1516-1536.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Activist Research as a Methodological Toolbox to Advance Public Sociology. Sociology 58(4): 832-850.

Gutiérrez-Cueli, Inés; Gil, Javier; Martínez, Miguel A. & García-Bernardos, Ángela (2024). The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality. Housing, Theory and Society 4(5): 657-677.

Hyötyläinen, Mika & Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Looking forward: a research agenda for contemporary urban sociology. In Martínez, Miguel A. (Ed.) (2024) Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 583-607.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Social and critical features of urban sociology. In Martínez, Miguel A. (Ed.) (2024) Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 26-49.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Introduction to the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. In Martínez, Miguel A. (Ed.) (2024) Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1-24.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). The Autonomy of Struggles and the Self-Management of Squats: Legacies of Intertwined Movements. In Ancelovici, M. & Dupuis-Déri, F. (eds.) Subverting Politics. Autonomous social movements today. Montréal: Black Rose Books, pp. 49-76.

Martínez, Miguel A.; Gil, Javier; García Bernardos, Ángela & Gutiérrez Cueli, Inés (2024). La PAH: un movimiento popular contra la financiarización de la vivienda. Madrid-Uppsala: GECU (Grupo de Estudios Críticos Urbanos) & IBF (Institute for Housing and Urban Research).

Gil, Javier; García-Duch, Miguel; Vidal, Lorenzo & Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). El mercado de alquiler: fuente de desigualdad social. Madrid: GECU (Grupo de Estudios Críticos Urbanos).

Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Boca Sur (Chile): activismos autónomos desde la periferia urbana. El Salto

Gil, Javier; Vidal, Lorenzo & Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Desmontando los discursos dominantes en el mercado del alquiler. El Salto

Grundström, K., Grander, M., Lazoroska, D. et al. (2024). Sharing housing: a solution to – or a reflection of – housing inequality?. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Gustafsson, J., Listerborn, C., & Molina, I. (2024). Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. Housing, Theory and Society, 41(5), 581–590.

Molina, I. (2024). Motståndet mot antirasismen. In: Krifors, K, Sältenberg, H-A., Mulinari, D. och Neergaard, A. (eds.), Antirasismer och antirasister. Sweden: Kriterium.

Polanska, D V., Backvall, K., Richard, Å., Molina, I. (2024). Predatory commodification and housing renovation. Journal of Urban Affairs, 46(4): 682-700.

Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2024). Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Hyötyläinen, Mika & Martínez, Miguel A. (2024). Looking forward: a research agenda for contemporary urban sociology. In: Martínez, Miguel A. (Ed.) Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Pillay Gonzalez, S. (2024). Latent state infrastructure & financialization: Insight from a post-apartheid pension fund and real estate. Antipode, 56(2), pp. 603-627

Richard, Å., (2024). “Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala. Housing, Theory and Society, 1–19.

Kallin, H., Gray, N., Beswick, J., Dempsey, D., Donnachie, S., Gavin, T., … Wallstam, M. (2024). Rent controls in comparative perspective: Reflections on an international symposium. Radical Housing Journal, 6(2), 237–251.

Ru, Francesca. (2024). A difesa degli alberi: Una lotta ecologista contro il comune di Torino. Napoli Monitor.

St-Hilaire, C., Brunila, M., & Wachsmuth, D. (2024). High rises and housing stress: A spatial big-data analysis of rental housing financialization. Journal of the American Planning Association, 90(1), 129-143.

August, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (Accepted for publication at EPA A). Financialization, rents, and housing affordability in Toronto.

Wachsmuth, D., Chellew, C., St-Hilaire, C., Kerrigan, D., Adair, M., & Mayhew, B. (2024). Flows between housing types: Exploring transitions in the Canadian housing continuum. Montreal: Urban Politics and Governance research group, McGill University.

Schierup, C.-U., Ålund, A., & Kellecioglu, I. (2024). Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Neo-Apartheid Sweden. Critical Sociology.

Kadıoğlu, D. and Kellecioğlu, I. (2024). Flowing Capital-Disrupted Homes: Financialisation and Maintenance of Rental Housing in Sweden. Antipode, 56: 516-537.

 

Rossini, Luisa; Martínez, Miguel A. & García-Bernardos, Ángela (2023). The configuration of a multi-pronged housing movement in Barcelona. Partecipazione e Conflitto 16(1): 63-86.

Gil, Javier & Martínez, Miguel A. (2023). State-Led Actions Reigniting the Financialization of Housing in Spain. Housing, Theory and Society 40(1): 1-21.

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.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2023). Elton Chan. The Last Urban Frontier. Commodification of Public Space and the Right to the City in Insurgent Hong Kong. Lund University. Sociologisk Forskning 60(2): 197-200.

Gil, Javier; Vidal, Lorenzo & Martínez, Miguel A. (2023). ¿Cómo afectará el control del precio de los alquileres a los caseros? Evidencia científica sobre la estructura del mercado de alquiler y consecuencias para su regulación pública. Barcelona: La Hidra Cooperativa.

Gil, Javier; Vidal, Lorenzo & Martínez, Miguel A. (2023). Agitar el mito de los pequeños propietarios para que no dejen de subir los precios. El Salto.

Hyötyläinen, Mika & Beauregard, Robert (2023). The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Hyötyläinen, Mika (2023). Land Rent and the Struggle for the Urban Commons in Helsinki's Suvilahti DIY Skatepark. In: Hyötyläinen, Mika & Beauregard, Robert (Eds.) The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Hyötyläinen, Mika (2023). A summary from the perspective of rent theory. In: Hyötyläinen, Mika & Beauregard, Robert (Eds.) The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Hyötyläinen, Mika & Beauregard, Robert (2023). Introduction: The Political Economy of Land. In: Hyötyläinen, Mika & Beauregard, Robert (Eds.) The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Charlesworth, Daisy & Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2023). Housing cooperatives and the contradictions of Finnish land and housing policies. International Journal of Housing Policy, 1–22.

Huchzermeyer, M; Osman, A; Le Roux, H; Rubin, M; Wilhelm-Solomon, M; Sihlongonyane, F; Klug, N; Harrison, P; Charlton, S; Pillay Gonzalez, S; Zack, T. (2023). “Johannesburg fire: there was a plan to fix derelict buildings and provide good accommodation - how to move forward”, The Conversation Africa.

Richard, Å., Hem och Hyra 2023-07-06 Åses stadsvandring blottlägger gränserna i Gränby.

Ösgård, A. & Wallstam, M. (2023). Class Compromises in an Uncompromising Political Economy: Rent-setting and The Swedish Tenants' Union. Urban Matters.

Blackwell, T., Holgersen, S., Polanska, D. V., Richard, Å., Rolf, H. & Wallstam, M. (2023). Kris i bostadsfrågan. För en solidarisk bostadspolitik. Daidalos

Blackwell, T., Holgersen, S., & Wallstam, M. (2023). Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector. Housing Studies.

Wachsmuth, D., St-Hilaire, C., Kerrigan, D., Chellew, C., Adair, M., & Mayhew, B. (2023). The Lived Experience of Evictions in Canada. Montreal: Urban Politics and Governance research group, McGill University.

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (2023). Mise à jour de la conformité règlementaire des opérations de locations à court terme. [Report commissioned by the Ministère du Tourisme du Québec].

Ålund, A., Schierup, C-U., & Kellecioglu, I. (2023) ”Antirasistisk allmänning i vardande: Aktivism för ett nytt Folkets Hus i ’post-rasismens’ tidevarv”, i Krifors, K., Mulinari, D., Neergaard, A., och Sältenberg, H (eds.), Antirasismer och antirasister. Realistiska utopier, spänningar och vardagserfarenheter Stockholm: Atlas.

 

Martínez, Miguel A. & Gil, Javier (2022). La representación cinematográfica documental del movimiento contra los desahucios de vivienda en España. Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales 22(3): v2202.

Martínez, Miguel A &; Gil, Javier (2022). The struggle against home evictions in Spain through documentary films. International Journal of Housing Policy 22(3): 371-394.

Martínez, Miguel A. & Wissink, Bart (2022). Urban Movements and Municipalist Governments in Spain: Alliances, Tensions and Achievements. Social Movement Studies 21(5): 659-676.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2022). Paraguas amarillos a la sombra de China: el movimiento por la democracia en Hong Kong [Yellow umbrellas under the shadow of China: the movement for democracy in Hong Kong]. In Gomer Betancor & Adriana Razquin (Eds.), Diez años construyendo ciudadanía en movimiento(s). El 15M y otras luchas hermanas. Barcelona: Bellaterra, pp. 203-212.

Martínez, Miguel A.; Deniz, E.; Barranco, O. & González, R. (2022). Impactos sociales y políticos del movimiento por la vivienda liderado por la PAH. [Social and political impacts of the housing movement led by the PAH]. In Grabrielle D’Adda et al. (Eds.) La Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca. Una década de lucha por la vivienda digna. Barcelona: Bellaterra, pp. 275-300.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2022). Kimberley A. Creasap 2022. Making a Scene. Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Acta Sociologica 66(4): 468-469.

Gil, J. & Martínez, Miguel A. (2022) El Estado y la financiarización de la vivienda en España tras la crisis de 2008. Revista Jueces para la Democracia 104: 71-86.

Hyötyläinen, M. (2022). Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – A study of unemployed workers’ experiences of displacement in Finland. Critical Social Policy, 42(2), 285-305.

Listerborn, Carina & Molina, Irene (2022). Rätten till bostad eller kris i bostadsfrågan. I Altermark, N. & Dahlstedt, M. (Red.) Bortom Systemskiftet. Mot en ny gemenskap. Stockholm: Verbal.

Molina, I., Galleguillos, X., & Grundström, K. (2022). Ciudad, vivienda y género desde una mirada incluyente e interseccional. Revista INVI, 37(104), 1–9.

Teodorescu, D., Molina, I. (2022). Vad har orsakat osäkra bostadsförhållanden för EU-migranter i Sverige och hur kan det bli bättre? Tidskriften Plan, Nr 7, 2022, s. 6-11.

Maina, M. and Pillay Gonzalez, S. (2022). The emotional toll of the ‘hard ’lockdown: an analysis of diary entries from Gauteng, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 104(3), pp.328-347.

Pillay Gonzalez, S and Maina, M. (2022). “How the pandemic lockdown in South Africa affected mental health”. The Conversation Africa.

Holgersen, S. & Wallstam, M. (2022). Att bygga utan vinst: icke-kommersiella aktörer i den svenska byggsektorn. In: Bo Bengtsson; Markus Holdo; Emma Holmqvist (Ed.), Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar (pp. 311-328). Göteborg: Daidalos.

Ru, Francesca, Scolamiero, Bianca, & Voglino, Michela. (2022). Di supermercati e vuoti urbani: La storia dell’area ex Westinghouse a Torino. Napoli Monitor.

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (2022). La location à court-terme au Québec : Aperçu du marché, analyse des licences et recommandations en matière de réglementation. [Report commissioned by the Ministère du Tourisme du Québec].

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (2022). The impact of short-term rentals on housing affordability in British Columbia: Market overview, trend modeling, and regulatory recommendations. [Report commissioned by the British Columbia Hotel Association].

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (2022). Short-term accommodations in Prince Edward County : Market overview, housing impacts, and regulatory recommendations. [Report commissioned by Prince Edward County].

Kadioglu, D., Kellecioglu, I., & Listerborn, C. (2022). ”Transnationella bostadsbolag, ägarbyten och lokal organisering bland hyresgäster”, i Bengtsson, B, Holdo, M., & Holmqvist, E. (eds.), Allas rätt till bostad. Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar Göteborg: Daidalos.

Schierup, C-U., Ålund, A., & Kellecioglu, I. (2022). “Forward through the Past? Reinventing the ‘People’s House’ in subaltern Stockholm”, i Bak Jørgensen, M., & Schierup, C-U. (eds.), Condenting Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility, Leiden & Boston (MA): Brill Academic Publishers.

Kellecioglu, I. (2022). ”Det är en konstant kamp om en så bra vardag som möjligt”. Dagens Arena.

 

Dadusc, Deanna, Margherita Grazioli & Miguel A. Martínez (Eds.) (2021). Resisting Citizenship. Migrant Housing Squats Against State Enclosures. New York: Routledge.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2021). Movimientos sociales por la vivienda a la luz de sus condiciones estructurales de desarrollo histórico. Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales 21(1): r2102.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2021). Cristina Flesher Fominaya 2020. Democracy Reloaded. Inside Spain´s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos. New York: Oxford University Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(3).

Martínez, Miguel A. (2021). Dominika Polanska 2019. Contentious Politics and the Welfare State: Squatting in Sweden. Abingdon: Routledge. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(2): 396-398.

Martínez, Miguel A. et al. (2021). Reclaiming space for workers in the 21st century: A literature review on worker centres. Beirut: ILO (International Labour Organisation).

Martínez, Miguel A., González, R. (2021). Acción colectiva durante la crisis pandémica en España (2020-2021). Anuario de Movimientos Sociales 2020. Fundación BETIKO.

Campos, C. & Martínez, Miguel A. (2021). Ativismo em ocupações no Brasil e Espanha: Articulações entre o direito à moradia e o direito à cidade. Belo Horizonte: Kasa Invisível.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2021). Some thoughts about universalism and generalisation.

Molina, Irene (2021). Vad bör göras? Avveckla bostadsmarknaden! i Research collective CRUSH Bostadsmanifest: 22 krav för framtidens hem. Listerborn, C., Valli, C. och Baeten, G. (red.). Stockholm: Dokument Press.

Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2021). Andersen, Hans Skifter 2019: Ethnic Spatial Segregation in European Cities. New York: Routledge. Book review. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(1), 202-203.

Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2021). Kohtuuhintaisen asumisen mahdollisuuksia heikennetään Helsingissä, ja se syventää kaupunkilaisten asumisongelmia. (A column on the decreasing role of affordable housing in Helsinki). Ylioppilaslehti, 2021(2).

Pillay Gonzalez, S., Maina, M. & Diale, K. (2021). City Lockdown Diaries: The Streets, Shops and Social Distancing.

Pull, E., Richard, Å., (2021). Domicide: dis place ment and dispossessions in Uppsala, Sweden. Social & Cultural Geography 22, 545–564.

Polanska, D., Richard, Å., (2021). Resisting Renovictions: Tenants Organizing against Housing Companies Renewal Practices in Sweden. Radical Housing Journal 3, 187–205.

Ösgård, A. (2021). Sweden’s Collective Bargaining for Rents Must Be Defended. Jacobin.

Ösgård, A., & Tümler de Carvalho, C. (2021). Denmark’s “Zero Asylum” Plan Means Psychological Torture for Refugees. Jacobin.

St-Hilaire, C., & Wachsmuth, D. (2021). Portrait des locations court terme au Québec: Présence, croissance et enjeux.

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (2021). Short-term Rentals in Toronto: Market Overview and Regulatory Impact Analysis. [Report commissioned by the City of Toronto].

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C. (2021). Short-term rentals in Vancouver: Overview, regulatory impacts and COVID-19. [Report commissioned by the City of Vancouver].

Wachsmuth, D., Bélanger de Blois, M., & St-Hilaire, C., Goyette, K., Kerrigan, D., Nedyalkova, I., and Xiao, J. (2021). From short term to long term? The impact of COVID-19 on Montreal’s short-term rental market. [Report commissioned by Projet Montréal].

Kellecioglu, I. (2021) Rapport inifrån ”Hemblahelvetet”: Röster från Hemblas bostäder i Husby, Stockholm. Malmö Universitet: MAPIUS.

Schierup, C-U, Ålund, A., & Kellecioglu, I. (2021). Reinventing the People’s House: Time, Space and Activism in Multiethnic Stockholm, Critical Sociology, 47 (6), 2021: 907-22.

Kellecioglu, I. (2021). ”Skandalvärdarna vill bli medlemmar i allmännyttan”. Dagens ETC.

Kellecioglu, I. (2021). ”Hem och Hyra granskar: Hembla och Victoria Park”. Hem & Hyra.

Kellecioglu, I. (2021). ”Sveriges allmännytta måste säga nej till fulvärdarna”. Dagens Arena.

 

Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Squatters in the capitalist city. Housing, Justice and Urban Politics. New York: Routledge.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Urban Commons from an Anti-Capitalist Approach. Partecipazione e Conflitto 13(3): 1390-1410.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Street Occupations, Neglected Democracy, and Contested Neoliberalism in Hong Kong. Social Justice 46(2/3): 101-124.

Martínez, Miguel A. & San Juan, Elena (2020). Just rekindle hope? Social and political impacts of the 15M movement in Spain. Estudios de la Paz y el Conflicto, Revista Latinoamericana 1(1): 13-38.

Tan, H. & Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Dancing with shackles? The socio-political opportunities, achievements, and dilemmas of cycling activism in Guangzhou (China). Journal of Urban Affairs 42(2): 241-256.

Martínez, Miguel A. & Polanska, Dominika (2020). Squatting and Urban Commons: Creating Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Partecipazione e Conflitto 13(3): 1244-1251.

Martínez, Miguel A. & Yip, Ngai Ming (2020). Urban activism in transitional economies – Eastern Europe and China. Journal of Urban Affairs 42(2)

Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). European squatters’ movements and the right to the city. In Flesher Fominaya, Cristina & Feenstra, Ramón A. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements. Protest in Turbulent Times. Abingdon: Routledge, 155-167.

Campos, Clarissa Cordeiro & Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Squatting activism in Brazil and Spain: Articulations between the right to housing and the right to the city. In Grashoff, Udo (Ed.) Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe. London: UCL Press, 110-129.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Mutating mobilisations during the pandemic crisis in Spain. Interface. A journal for and about social movements 12(1): 15-21.

Martínez, Miguel A. (2020). Squatting is not dead! Uno sguardo da Madrid.

Listerborn, C, Molina, I. & Richard, Å. (2020). Claiming the Right to Dignity. New organizations for housing justice in neoliberal Sweden. In: Radical Housing Journal, May 2020, Vol 2(1): 119-137.

Teodorescu, D., Molina, I. (2020). Roma street-workers in Uppsala: racialised poverty and super precarious housing conditions in Romania and Sweden, International Journal of Housing Policy, DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1854950

Molina, I. (2020). Book review: Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing, Justice and Urban Politics, Miguel. A. Martínez, 2020, Radical Housing Journal, 2(2), pp. 243-246.

Molina, Irene (2020). Is there a Non-socialist feminism? European Journal of Women’s Studies 2020, Vol. 27(3) 301–309.

Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2020). Asumisen sietämätön epävarmuus. (A comment on the increasing precarity of housing in Europe). Finnish Journal of Urban Studies. 58 (4), 36-39.

Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2020). Not for Normal People: The Specialization of Social Rental Housing in Finland. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 19 (2), 545-566.

Hyötyläinen, Mika. (2020). Kaupungeissa asuminen vaikeutuu, kun asunnoista tulee pääoman kaatopaikkoja. Ilmiö: Sosiologian verkkomedia. (Review of the documentary film PUSH for a Finnish sociological online publication).

Pillay Gonzalez, S. (2020). Book Review "Vernacular Regeneration: low-income housing, private policing and urban transformation in inner-city Johannesburg by Aidan Mosselson." Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 102 (1): 128-133.

Richard et al (2020). Bostadsojämlikhet större problem än bostadsbrist. Feministiskt Perspektiv.

Richard et al., (2020). Så blir Gränby en bättre plats att bo på. Uppsala Nya Tidning.

UNT 2020-10-03 Renovräkning i Gränby: "Man kan förstå frustrationen" https://www.unt.se/nyheter/uppsala/artikel/-renovrakning-i-granby-man-kan-forsta-frustrationen-/8j82g2yj

Listerborn, C., Molina, I., Richard, Å., 2020. Claiming the right to dignity: New organizations for housing justice in neoliberal Sweden. Radical Housing Journal 2, 119–137.

Ösgård, A. (2020). How Privatization Hobbled Sweden’s Response to Coronavirus. Jacobin.

Domingie, Isabella, Schnetzler, Maguelone, & Ru, Francesca (2020). Les "soutiers" désynchronisés de la métropole. CAhiers de la Métropole Bordelaise (CAMBO).

Kellecioglu, I. (2020). ”Stoppa vräkningarna av drabbade i förorten”. Aftonbladet.

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