The Department of Sociology has a distinctive cluster of urban sociologists and ethnographers, who work alongside urban designers, planners, grassroots organisations, and other professionals to address the dynamism of urban transformations and city life. Processes of urbanisation are examined in relation to global systems of power and regulation, cultural hierarchies and subversions, and forms of association and exclusion. Current research interests include pronounced conditions of urban inequality, the role of housing in an era of dispossession, the racial political economy of city-making, the practice of new media and technology in global contexts, cross-disciplinary explorations of architecture and cultural space, and the configurations of migrant and informal urbanisms across global South and global North geographies.
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