David Madden
@davidjmadden.bsky.social
Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
New paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social: ‘Privileged Precarity’. It explores how middle class young professionals leverage housing insecurity to synchronise their lives with the rhythms of precarious labour markets. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢 BOOK LAUNCH EVENT📢 The good folk at Urban Salon are hosting the launch of my new book 'Postcapitalist Cities' on 1 May 4pm at KCL where I'll be in discussion with @davidjmadden.bsky.social & @gypjh2000.bsky.social Details & FREE tickets here: theurbansalon.com/2026/02/19/b...
Book Launch: Postcapitalist Cities (Oli Mould) – The Urban Salon
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💭 How do planners work amid social division, post‑truth politics, and fractured publics? Mona Fawaz and @davidjmadden.bsky.social join us next week to discuss planning in #Beirut after the 2020 Port explosion. 📅 Mon 2 March | 6.30pm #Cities #LSE
CITY Annual Lecture | Planning amid division with Prof Mona Fawaz
6.30pm Mon 2 March | Mona Fawaz | Free public event at LSE
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🌍 From #Beirut’s 2020 Port explosion to #global planning debates: Prof. Mona Fawaz reflects on knowledge, politics, and representation in polarised contexts. Chaired by @davidjmadden.bsky.social. 📅 2 March | 6.30pm 🎟️ Open to all and free to attend #LSE #Sociology #Cities
CITY Annual Lecture | Planning amid division with Prof Mona Fawaz
6.30pm Mon 2 March | Mona Fawaz | Free public event at LSE
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Now out: Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City Environment and Planning F Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social and many more!
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“Resolving the housing crisis depends upon reversing and replacing the changes to the British housing system and society that Right to Buy helped to bring about.” Our latest report covered by @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden
A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden
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"Before the policy, social housing made up 31% of overall housing tenure in England. Today it is 16%, causing council housing waiting lists and homelessness to surge." 📰 Read @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the enduring impact of Thatcher's Right to Buy policy.
Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden
A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden
theguardian.com
My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods: doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social
Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood
The ideal of a meritocratic society continues to exert significant normative power in political and public discourse, including in discussions about marginalised spaces and neighbourhoods. However,...
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Join us at the @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for In Defense of Housing (2nd ed.) with @davidjmadden.bsky.social – reading group (1 July) + book launch (4 July). Organised by the Rent Cultures Network. Register: forms.gle/vYUf2F1ciPha... @potentiaspace.bsky.social
Imagine what the political and economic landscape would look like if, at any point since 1999, instead of pushing the Washington Consensus, the Democrats and similar parties worldwide had actually listened to the alter-globalization movement and the left critique of free trade
Who runs Britain—its people or the markets & oligarchs? Reeves is boxed in by bond yields. But the truth is: we all are. Democracy has two paths: 1. Obey markets, accept decline and creeping fascism. 2. Disrupt their power. Deepen economic & social democracy. There is no ‘third way’ this time.
This month is giving serious March 2020 vibes—same pervasive feeling of anxiety and sense that the world is accelerating towards unknown disaster
My editorial in the newest issue of CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
There is no alternative to creating an alternative: critical urban studies in the authoritarian moment
Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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tbh I’m starting to think that this Trump fellow might not be totally on the level
What happens when you try to report a post over on the Hell Site. At this rate, this may soon be what happens when Americans dial 911
Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Social Reproduction and the Housing Question
There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt t...
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How has the battle for housing shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city? At this event, Sarah El-Kazaz, @davidjmadden.bsky.social and Mai Taha will explore the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo.
Politics in the crevices
Join this free LSE event discussing Politics in the Crevices by Sarah El-Kazaz.
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Tonight! ⤵️
LSE Sociology@lsesociology.bsky.social · 2y agoNext week we will hear from @graceblakeley.bsky.social and @michaelvaughan.bsky.social about Grace's recent book, Vulture Capitalism. They will join @davidjmadden.bsky.social to discuss how the causes of our modern crises are the result of the economic system we have built.
Where is Jean Baudrillard when we, improbably, actually need him
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2y agobut anyhow...this (using X's image generator to do AI looting photos) is, in my mind, some of the grimmest shit imaginable.
Next week we will hear from @graceblakeley.bsky.social and @michaelvaughan.bsky.social about Grace's recent book, Vulture Capitalism. They will join @davidjmadden.bsky.social to discuss how the causes of our modern crises are the result of the economic system we have built.
Vulture capitalism
6.30pm Mon 13 Jan | Vulture Capitalism book launch | Grace Blakeley, Dr Michael Vaughan | Free public event at LSE
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📖 El lunes 13 de enero tenemos la primera sesión del año del 'Club de Lectura Capitán Barrio'. En esta ocasión trataremos 'En defensa de la vivienda', de @davidjmadden.bsky.social y Peter Marcuse y nos acompañarán @javigil.bsky.social, académico y activista en defensa del derecho a la vivienda
“…it is the first case in 20 or 30 years that Mexico has broken with the neoliberal dogma that there is no money for this. ‘This is living proof that if you want to, you can spend money on the poor.’”
David Madden@davidjmadden.bsky.social · 2y ago“You know the programme is working when the rich are complaining that the poor have a gym and a swimming pool.” Utopías now! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“You know the programme is working when the rich are complaining that the poor have a gym and a swimming pool.” Utopías now! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City
A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
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We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Assistant Professor in Sociology, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and…
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