Sociologist. On cities and struggles for social justice. From Spain, now based in Sweden. Author of "Squatters in the Capitalist City".
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12 Apr 2024
This book is finally published! If interested, you can ask the authors for a pdf copy of their chapters. If you want to help disseminating it, please order a copy for your favourite library. Thanks to all who contributed!
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One of the most impressive initiatives of "activist research" I have seen lately: a survey organised by various tenant and labour unions together, run by 1,800 volunteers in Catalonia, with more than 10,000 responses, 80% yes to a general strike: enscostalavida.org/
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
⌚ Tic, tac. Se les ha acabado el tiempo.
Contra su represión: organización, lucha y resistencia.
Ni mordazas, ni deudas, ni miedo.
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My book review of "Squatter life: Persistence at the urban margins of Buenos Aires" by Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián is already online. 50 free eprints here: tandfonline.com/eprint/DSTND… Otherwise, check my own webpage: miguelangelmartinez.net
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Starting 2026 with an academic publication out is good news: "EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter-measures" (IJURR, open access). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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29 Dec 2025
He escrito un breve artículo, por si os interesa: ¿Pueden, deben o quieren unirse los Centros Sociales Autogestionados dadas sus diferencias y afinidades? Un debate a partir de las aportaciones de varios CSA de Madrid en un encuentro reciente.
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18 Dec 2025
Ahorra tu dinero en finanzas éticas como Coop57. 10 años de anticapitalismo práctico: youtube.com/shorts/2Mr5-YSQo…
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11 Dec 2025
Siguen las presentaciones y debates sobre nuestro último libro :)
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🏆💸 Pódium del parasitismo rentista. El qúién es quién de la avaricia inmobiliaria española, formato Forbes.
👉 Mención especial a Mercedes Hoces Moreno y su conflicto con las vecinas de Antonio Zamora
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
22 Oct 2025
The introduction to the upcoming special issue co-edited with @Gil_JavierGil & @autodesplan in @USJ_online offers a comparative overview of the tenant practices and demands that have emerged in response to global corporate landlordism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
9 Nov 2025
¿Quién decide qué es habitar la ciudad? En los márgenes, crece otra forma de vida urbana.
📚 Centros sociales autogestionados, @rubeniban y @autodesplan. Portada de Miguel Brieva.
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
In the next event of our book presentation series, Miguel A. Martínez will present the 'Research Handbook on Urban Sociology' and we will discuss critical urban sociology.
👉Register here: urban-futures.at/hot-off-the…
📅3rd December 2025
🕛11:00 AM (CET) via Zoom
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
28 Nov 2025
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies 62(16) - December 2025
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Global corporate landlords and tenant struggles"
✍ Eds: @buenaventura_v @Gil_JavierGil @autodesplan
🔍 #Tenant struggles in a #housing crisis embodied by the global corporate #landlord.
buff.ly/NR07w25
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21 Oct 2025
"Global corporate landlordism and a new cycle of tenant contention", written with @buenaventura_v & @Gil_JavierGil, is finally published. I hope these insights help tenants' organising and struggling against these evil capitalist powers. Open-access:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
25 Sep 2025
🏙️ Centros sociales autogestionados: espacios donde la ciudad deja de ser solo propiedad y se convierte en vida colectiva.
✨ Una mirada crítica al urbanismo neoliberal y al derecho a la ciudad por @rubeniban y @autodesplan
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20 Sep 2025
Three wonderful books with brilliant insights about revolutionary thinking, emancipatory change, egalitarian futures and strategies for ecological transformation. We need utopian hope to counter fascism, but also provide sustainable material living conditions for everyone.
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10 Sep 2025
Two-days "paper development workshop" in Geneva about housing, illegality, criminality and all the complexities, contradictions and nuances one should expect when dealing with this topic. It's been much better and more intellectually challenging than most conventional conferences
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
3 Sep 2025
🤔 ¿De quién es la ciudad? Los centros sociales abren el debate sobre lo público, lo privado y los comunes urbanos.
👉 @pascual_serrano entrevista a @rubeniban y @autodesplan autores de 'Centros sociales autogestionados'
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22 Aug 2025
Useful reflections on the labour of doctoral supervision in a caring and collective fashion versus the traditional Master-apprentice model, by Defne Kadioglu and Chiara Valli (from Malmö university).
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Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) retweeted
18 Aug 2025
For an upcoming special issue on global corporate landlords and tenant struggles, guest edited with @Gil_JavierGil @autodesplan, I reflect on the neighbourhood scale in tenant organising with reference to the Barcelona case
18 Aug 2025
📄 "Neighbourhoods against global corporate landlords"
✍️ @buenaventura_v explores the significance of the #neighbourhood scale in tenant organising amid the rise of global corporate landlords by examining Barcelona’s neighbourhood #housing unions.
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20 Aug 2025
Freshly arrived today! A brilliant research by Saila-Maria Saaristo that adds up lots of arguments and evidence on urban squatting/occupations. Congrats!
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