Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the urban question, such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across the globe.
This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms.
Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the urban question, such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across the globe. With attention to the manner in which the three axes of class, gender and race play a fundamental role in contemporary social phenomena, it interweaves different issues that are inextricably linked in matters of urban inequality. The book bridges a significant gap between urban studies and Marxists theories by reviving Marx and Engels ideas in the context of analyzing urban studies in the twenty-first century. The objective is to bring together diverse perspectives and directions of the ongoing debate on the urban question. Although there are multiple Marxisms and theoretical currents inspired by Marxism that seek to understand the urban and spatial transformations of today, there has been a lack of comprehensive scholarship that systematically brings them together to frame this debate. The goal is to unite the main critical Marxist perspectives on contemporary urban studies.
Reimagining Urban Marxisms will therefore appeal to scholars across disciplines with interests in Marxist analyses of contemporary urban and spatial transformations, and the phenomenon of planetary urbanization.
Exploring Urban Marxisms in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction
Part 1: Theory and Problems
1. Capital Accumulation Through Urbanization: A
Synthesis
2. Historicizing (Housing) Financialization, or, the Present and
Past of Urban and Housing Studies
3. Urban Society Against the
Planetarization of the Metabolic Rift and the Urban
4. Architecture, Capital,
and the Subject of the City in the 21st Century
5. For a Marxist Theory of
Crisis in the History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Part 2: The New
Housing Question
6. Friedrich Engels as the First Urban Sociologist:
Examining Cities and Capitalism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
7.
Gentrification and the Housing Crisis from the Lens of Marxist and Critical
Urban Theory
8. Value-Grabbing in the City: Rent Extraction and the Building
Safety Crisis
9. Social Struggles around Rental Housing Part 3: Expanding
Postcolonial Marxist Horizons: Exploring Possibilities
10. Capitalism,
Imperialism and the Urban Question
11. Race and Class in Peripherical Cities
from Decolonial Lens: Notes from Brazilian Cities
12. Rethinking Urban
Margins of Lusotopia Cities in the Light of Lefebvrian Thought
13.
Contribution of Marxist Political Theory to a Geography of Crime
14.
Contribution of Marxist Political Theory to a Geography of Crime
Francesco Biagi earned his PhD in political sciences with a focus on sociology, history and political culture from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2018. Currently, he serves as a researcher in social theory at CIAUD, the Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, affiliated with IN2PAST the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability, and Territory. His research interests encompass political and social theory, with a particular emphasis on the role of urbanrural relations in the historical transformations of capitalism. He has contributed significantly to this field through his publications, including the monographs: Henri Lefebvre: Una teoria critica dello spazio (2019) and Henri Lefebvres Critical Theory of Space (2020). Additionally, he has edited the Italian editions of two volumes by Lefebvre: Espace et politique: Le Droit ą la ville II and La pensée marxiste et la ville.
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