Stigmatisation of Roma people has long received attention in the academic literature but the
internalisation of stigma among segregated urban Roma has been little researched. By …

In capitalist economies, residences that have value as homes are also commodities. Use of
Gramsci's concept of historic bloc highlights how in the current, neoliberal period …

This article studies the urban geographies of Roma poverty by exploring variations in
spatialisation. We draw on Sassen's work on expulsions to argue that the spatialisation of …

This research attends to how urban tenants bring matong (toilets in the form of urine
buckets)—which are a material, semiotic, and marketable piece of infrastructure—into the …

This paper joins the growing scholarly concern for the sharpening of social and
environmental inequalities in European cities, particularly those generated in Eastern …

Homeless encampments take on a variety of forms. From a handful of tents on the sidewalk
to massive informal settlements of wooden shanties and vehicles occupying vacant land …

This study analyzes public housing residualization as a multiscalar phenomenon, providing
specific details about how it happened in a Central and East European context via the …

Post-industrial neighborhoods are valued for their historical and cultural significance but
often contend with challenges such as physical deterioration, social instability, and cultural …

Forced evictions have been recognised as a relevant process in Romanian post-socialist
urban transformations. Housing privatization, including restitutions, represents the key …

Anthropologists have become increasingly sophisticated in the analysis of class by detailing
the urban margins, by 'studying up'to examine elite wealth, and by charting the rise of the …