1st Edition

Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For "Doing" Urban Elite Research

Edited By Bas van Heur, David Bassens Copyright 2021
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism 2. Making and mapping Britain's "new ordinary elite" 3. The challenge of researching "partial exit" and "rootedness" among upper-middle classes in European cities 4. Naked elites: unveiling embodied markers of superiority through co-performance ethnography in gentrified Brooklyn's Park Slope 5. Contingently elite: affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption 6. Investigating urban elites through fear and security in Porto Alegre 7. Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London's financial district 8. Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies

Biography

Bas van Heur is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

David Bassens is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.