Full Description
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.
Contents
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
