The paper provides a nuanced reading of the ways in which conditions of precarity arising
from forced evictions are 'made'and 'unmade'in their unfolding, offering a way to appreciate …

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes,
leading sociologist Gran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the …

Following the case of 100 Roma people evicted from their home in the centre of Bucharest in
September 2014, the article looks at evictions and practices of resistance from the ground …

The article explores the politics of life underground in Bucharest, Romania. It focuses on a
tunnel passing under Bucharest's central train station, where a community of drug users and …

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was" gifted" to
Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional …

Abstract Post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe has seen far right movements and
parties gain considerable ground by drawing on nativist and ethnic claims to call for a return …

Scholars have raised concerns about the social costs of the transition from state socialism to
capitalism in Central and E astern E urope, and geographers are particularly interested in …

The paper explores the racialised geography of a series of socialist blocs located in the
southern periphery of Bucharest, labelled as a contemporary Romanian “ghetto”. Through …

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and
Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities …

Capitalist private property in land and buildings–real estate–is the ground of modern cities,
materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to …