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/...
Tim White
David Madden
“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...
📢 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...
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!
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
💭 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
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
🌍 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
"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.
Miro Born
Common Wealth
Oli Mould
Adam David Morton
A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden
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,...
