Fran Tonkiss

London School of Economics and Political Science | LSE · Department of Sociology

This paper engages with a recent set of critical arguments concerning the ‘post-crisis city’ and the political economy of ‘austerity urbanism’. The focus of the discussion is on practical interventions in the vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses. In this way, it opens a furthe...

JuddDennis R. and SimpsonDick (eds.), The City, Revisited (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, $25.00 paperback, $75.00 hardback). Pp. 392. isbn978 0 8166 6576 1, 978 0 8166 6575 4. - Volume 46 Issue 2 - FRAN TONKISS

On the day that Occupy London's appeal against the eviction order from its St Paul's encampment was rejected in the UK Court of Appeal, a spokesman for the Corporation of the City of London summed up the problem: ‘Peaceful protest is a democratic right but the camp is clearly in breach of highway and planning law.’ The bathos of the statement is to...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non‐profit organization that brings together corporate and political leaders and academic, media, and civil society actors at annual meetings and regional fora. Founded in Geneva in 1971 as the European Management Forum, the organization has expanded from a European business network to a “global” i...

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This article examines recent processes of urban renewal and housing provision in London, led by market agents and shaped by the 2004 London Plan. Against the backdrop of housing and regeneration policies in London over the last three decades, the discussion analyses the socio-economic and physical transformation of Bermondsey in inner London as a c...

The BJS turns 60 this year. To mark the occasion the editors have chosen two articles from each of the Journal's six decades that, in their view, have had a significant and enduring impact on sociology. Each of the articles is accompanied by contemporary commentary that critically assesses its legacy. While the articles chosen represent just a frac...

This article explores the role of trust and confidence in economic life, and their relevance to the current financial crisis. It outlines a recent history of research and debate on the relationship between social trust and economic prosperity, before introducing more recent data on trust against the backdrop of the financial downturn. It goes on to...

Developing their earlier arguments against the centrality given to capitalist relations in economic analysis, J. K. Gibson-Graham's recent work has sought to outline the contours of a 'postcapitalist politics' based on a more diverse set of economic arrangements. Their aim is to go beyond the level of critique to explore economic alternatives; at t...

Developing their earlier arguments against the centrality given to capitalist relations in economic analysis, J. K. Gibson-Graham's recent work has sought to outline the contours of a 'postcapitalist politics' based on a more diverse set of economic arrangements. Their aim is to go beyond the level of critique to explore economic alternatives; at t...

Social Justice, Equity and CohesionSocial Justice and Urban PolicySocial Justice as Social Inclusion: The Spatial Politics of New LabourConclusion References

This discussion examines the issue of globalisation in terms of the interaction of economy, politics and power. It begins by considering the claims implied by the language of globalisation. How extensive and inclusive is the global economy? The second section goes on to outline the broad geography of globalisation in terms of a balance of power tha...

Contemporary Economic Sociology closely examines critical and contemporary issues in the sociology of economic life. Bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives, Fran Tonkiss examines major shifts in the organization of economy and society - from the politics of globalization to the cultural economy, social exclusion and the 'end' of clas...

In this undergraduate textbook, contributors describe and analyze the theoretical and practical issues of research on society and culture. General topics include research contexts, case studies of collecting and analyzing visual data, and a description of one researcher's practice. Essays discuss the history, policies and theories of social researc...

Modern social theory has frequently represented city life as isolating, as degrading of social ties and as inimical to community. In another register, however, urban contexts have also been primary sites for imagining and re-imagining forms of community, especially on the basis of shared social spaces or elective identities. The discussion in this...

English Accounts of British Labour’s ‘third way’ tend to leave out an important antecedent for Blair’s ‘new’ politics – the Australian Labor governments of 1983–96. In this article, we argue that labour governments in Australia and Britain have pursued similar strategies for melding neoliberalism with social democracy. Key failures of Australian La...

States and Markets: The Emergence of Neo—liberalism2 Reforming the State: Dilemmas of Intervention3 “Marketizing” the State4 Welfare, Enterprise and Market Freedoms5 Conclusion: The “New Politics” of Neo—liberalismFurther Reading

Ideals of voluntary association are central to recent thinking about both trust and civil society. On one hand, voluntary associations are cited as exemplary forms of trust relation; on the other hand, they provide the defining features of a distinctly civil sphere (Fukuyama, 1996; Putnam, 1993a, 1995a; Cohen and Arato, 1992; Powell and Guerin, 199...

Recent debates within social and political theory, and within the public sphere more generally, reveal growing concern with issues of `trust'. While forms of voluntary association frequently are cited as prime examples of trust relations, they rarely provide a focus for such debates. In this paper we examine current developments within the voluntar...

In this undergraduate textbook, contributors describe and analyze the theoretical and practical issues of research on society and culture. General topics include research contexts, case studies of collecting and analyzing visual data, and a description of one researcher's practice. Essays discuss the history, policies and theories of social researc...

Whereas the central preoccupation of critical social analysis has traditionally been the way in which economic rationality dominates culture, contemporary social theory has been increasingly concerned with the central role of cultural processes and institutions in organising and controlling the economic The cultural turn in recent criticism and soc...