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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Methodologies For "Doing" Urban Elite Research
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ISBN
9781000406177
Publisert
2021
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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