To make money out of the housing market in low-income minority areas, small independent housing a... more To make money out of the housing market in low-income minority areas, small independent housing actors constitute informal local cliques which enables moneymaking strategies that do not fit common descriptions of the housing market in the literature. Intensive zero-sum bargaining and the constants search for information asymmetries on idiosyncratic situations makes the housing market in these neighborhoods a Bazaar look-alike (Geertz 1978). This analytical description sheds a new light on critical urban processes affecting these neighborhoods, from gentrification, to the subprime boom and bust, and the policy of housing vouchers.
Les émeutes de Ferguson marquent la rupture de la paix raciale la plus durable depuis la seconde ... more Les émeutes de Ferguson marquent la rupture de la paix raciale la plus durable depuis la seconde guerre mondiale aux États-Unis, et révèlent la transformation de la condition des populations noires depuis une dizaine d’années. D’un côté, les années 2000-2010 sont l’apogée du processus de pénalisation et de contrôle policier de la vie des Noirs. De l’autre, la décennie passée témoigne d’une stagnation, voire d’un recul, de la position des Noirs dans la société américaine. Contre le mythe de la société post-raciale, la place des Noirs se caractérise par une inégalité durable, dont les ressorts se sont transformés.
Sciences Po Grenoble Working Paper, n°26, Aug 11, 2014
What are the implications of Piketty’s Capital for sociology and political science? Capital’s arg... more What are the implications of Piketty’s Capital for sociology and political science? Capital’s argument focuses on the evolution of the r/g ratio (capital returns over growth rate) and outlines two modes of economic inequalities. One is characteristic of affluent (g > r) societies and the other is characteristic of patrimonial (r > g) societies. With the current return to a patrimonial society, corporations become political actors; occupational status and education’s relevance are declining; the meaning of poverty is transformed, and welfare and punishment become interdependent means to social order; in politics, elitist theories gain traction; immigration is less about assimilation, and more about transnationalism and nationalist politics. We show that some theories are more relevant in an affluent society, and others are more adequate to a patrimonial society.
To make money out of the housing market in low-income minority areas, small independent housing a... more To make money out of the housing market in low-income minority areas, small independent housing actors constitute informal local cliques which enables moneymaking strategies that do not fit common descriptions of the housing market in the literature. Intensive zero-sum bargaining and the constants search for information asymmetries on idiosyncratic situations makes the housing market in these neighborhoods a Bazaar look-alike (Geertz 1978). This analytical description sheds a new light on critical urban processes affecting these neighborhoods, from gentrification, to the subprime boom and bust, and the policy of housing vouchers.
Les émeutes de Ferguson marquent la rupture de la paix raciale la plus durable depuis la seconde ... more Les émeutes de Ferguson marquent la rupture de la paix raciale la plus durable depuis la seconde guerre mondiale aux États-Unis, et révèlent la transformation de la condition des populations noires depuis une dizaine d’années. D’un côté, les années 2000-2010 sont l’apogée du processus de pénalisation et de contrôle policier de la vie des Noirs. De l’autre, la décennie passée témoigne d’une stagnation, voire d’un recul, de la position des Noirs dans la société américaine. Contre le mythe de la société post-raciale, la place des Noirs se caractérise par une inégalité durable, dont les ressorts se sont transformés.
Sciences Po Grenoble Working Paper, n°26, Aug 11, 2014
What are the implications of Piketty’s Capital for sociology and political science? Capital’s arg... more What are the implications of Piketty’s Capital for sociology and political science? Capital’s argument focuses on the evolution of the r/g ratio (capital returns over growth rate) and outlines two modes of economic inequalities. One is characteristic of affluent (g > r) societies and the other is characteristic of patrimonial (r > g) societies. With the current return to a patrimonial society, corporations become political actors; occupational status and education’s relevance are declining; the meaning of poverty is transformed, and welfare and punishment become interdependent means to social order; in politics, elitist theories gain traction; immigration is less about assimilation, and more about transnationalism and nationalist politics. We show that some theories are more relevant in an affluent society, and others are more adequate to a patrimonial society.
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