Miro Born
@miroborn.bsky.social
housing and urban studies | social class
Goethe University Frankfurt | LSE Sociology
Goethe University Frankfurt | LSE Sociology
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Meritocracy from below: Dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood
Anthony Miro Born
Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
Anthony Miro Born
Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
August 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Meritocracy from below: Dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood
Anthony Miro Born
Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
Anthony Miro Born
Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
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I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🌟 @miroborn.bsky.social was awarded the Outstanding PhD Researcher Impact prize for his project "From PhD Research to Comic: The Price of Social Mobility".
This award recognises excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research.
This award recognises excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research.
July 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌟 @miroborn.bsky.social was awarded the Outstanding PhD Researcher Impact prize for his project "From PhD Research to Comic: The Price of Social Mobility".
This award recognises excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research.
This award recognises excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research.
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Soon: @miroborn.bsky.social on wealthy neighbourhoods—how affluence gets its aesthetic, its status, its power. ✨
🗓️ july 2 | 12:15 | room 309 @isi-munich.bsky.social
Also: he made a comic about class, mobility and how moving up doesn’t always mean fitting in: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
🗓️ july 2 | 12:15 | room 309 @isi-munich.bsky.social
Also: he made a comic about class, mobility and how moving up doesn’t always mean fitting in: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
June 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Soon: @miroborn.bsky.social on wealthy neighbourhoods—how affluence gets its aesthetic, its status, its power. ✨
🗓️ july 2 | 12:15 | room 309 @isi-munich.bsky.social
Also: he made a comic about class, mobility and how moving up doesn’t always mean fitting in: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
🗓️ july 2 | 12:15 | room 309 @isi-munich.bsky.social
Also: he made a comic about class, mobility and how moving up doesn’t always mean fitting in: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
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
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social
Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood
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,...
doi.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social
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Out now #OpenAccess!📖
'Intersectionality and the City' brings together intersectional and spatial perspectives to sharpen our understanding of urban inequalities.
Edited by @miroborn.bsky.social, @ckulz.bsky.social, @sungungang.bsky.social & Lucie Bernroider ⬇️
www.routledge.com/Intersection...
'Intersectionality and the City' brings together intersectional and spatial perspectives to sharpen our understanding of urban inequalities.
Edited by @miroborn.bsky.social, @ckulz.bsky.social, @sungungang.bsky.social & Lucie Bernroider ⬇️
www.routledge.com/Intersection...
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Out now #OpenAccess!📖
'Intersectionality and the City' brings together intersectional and spatial perspectives to sharpen our understanding of urban inequalities.
Edited by @miroborn.bsky.social, @ckulz.bsky.social, @sungungang.bsky.social & Lucie Bernroider ⬇️
www.routledge.com/Intersection...
'Intersectionality and the City' brings together intersectional and spatial perspectives to sharpen our understanding of urban inequalities.
Edited by @miroborn.bsky.social, @ckulz.bsky.social, @sungungang.bsky.social & Lucie Bernroider ⬇️
www.routledge.com/Intersection...
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Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
May 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
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📚 From Research to Comic: @miroborn.bsky.social's Exploration of Social Mobility 🔗
Together with illustrator Irem Kurt, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthony Miro Born created a short comic on social mobility.
Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
Read the comic 👉 www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
Together with illustrator Irem Kurt, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthony Miro Born created a short comic on social mobility.
Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
Read the comic 👉 www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
May 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📚 From Research to Comic: @miroborn.bsky.social's Exploration of Social Mobility 🔗
Together with illustrator Irem Kurt, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthony Miro Born created a short comic on social mobility.
Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
Read the comic 👉 www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
Together with illustrator Irem Kurt, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthony Miro Born created a short comic on social mobility.
Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
Read the comic 👉 www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
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I received these comics by @miroborn.bsky.social on growing up in a stigmatized neighbourhood and subsequent social mobility in the mail today. Great example of knowledge dissemination!
Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I received these comics by @miroborn.bsky.social on growing up in a stigmatized neighbourhood and subsequent social mobility in the mail today. Great example of knowledge dissemination!
Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
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Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025
CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...
Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.
Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025
CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...
Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.
Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)
www.lmu.de
March 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025
CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...
Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.
Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025
CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...
Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.
Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)
Very interesting Special Issue! @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status.
Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Against culture? Class analysis, strategic essentialism and methodological nationalism after Beverley Skeggs’ Formations of Class and Gender - Simone Varriale, 2025
Beverley Skeggs’ first book (Formations of Class and Gender [FoC&G]) has been central to the study of class and culture, pushing it towards a more sustained con...
journals.sagepub.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Very interesting Special Issue! @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
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Interesting new paper looking at how class ceiling effects are driven by stigmatising cross-class interactions in universities and the workplace
“They all knew each other from their schools. I felt they were completely indifferent to my existence. I was invisible.” – Catherine, law student, Chile
Malik Fercovic on class stigmatisation in elite institutions.
#OnlineFirst in the journal buff.ly/WixpiPQ
Malik Fercovic on class stigmatisation in elite institutions.
#OnlineFirst in the journal buff.ly/WixpiPQ
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Interesting new paper looking at how class ceiling effects are driven by stigmatising cross-class interactions in universities and the workplace
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I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university.
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!
Organising as workers to build industrial power within our universities is a key element of how we respond to redundancies, marketisation and other political pressures on higher education. This piece...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university.
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Online seminar with Troels Schultz Larsen and Kristian Nagel Delica, who will present their book Fragmenting Cities, with a special focus on the emergence, life and effects of the "ghetto list" in Denmark. March 4 at 13:15 CET. Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#urban #sociology
#urban #sociology
February 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Online seminar with Troels Schultz Larsen and Kristian Nagel Delica, who will present their book Fragmenting Cities, with a special focus on the emergence, life and effects of the "ghetto list" in Denmark. March 4 at 13:15 CET. Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#urban #sociology
#urban #sociology
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What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025?
Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025
🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB
Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025
🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB
February 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025?
Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025
🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB
Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025
🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB
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Exciting lineup for the launch of Sarah Kerr’s brilliant new book on wealth inequality at LSE Next Wednesday evening. Do sign up!
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
Wealth, poverty and enduring inequality: let's talk wealtherty
Public event at LSE | Sarah Kerr, Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar, Frank Soodeen | Weds 19 February, 6.00 to 7.30pm
www.lse.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Exciting lineup for the launch of Sarah Kerr’s brilliant new book on wealth inequality at LSE Next Wednesday evening. Do sign up!
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
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🚨Job alert 🚨
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨Job alert 🚨
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
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Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda
This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
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What can Kilburn High Road & @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social tell us about the relationality of walking?
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”.
#OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”.
#OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I
January 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What can Kilburn High Road & @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social tell us about the relationality of walking?
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”.
#OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”.
#OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I
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I have an article in the Guardian today on the loophole pushing Berlin’s housing crisis to new extremes
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White
Germany’s capital was known for its affordable rents. Now ‘furnished temporary’ flats risk destroying the heart of the city, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I have an article in the Guardian today on the loophole pushing Berlin’s housing crisis to new extremes
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imogen Tyler takes a closer look at the connections between land enclosures in England and in the wider colonial world.
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January 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Imogen Tyler takes a closer look at the connections between land enclosures in England and in the wider colonial world.
🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free open-access educational resources, including video lectures, reading lists and detailed lesson plans.
buff.ly/4gq1uPg
🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free open-access educational resources, including video lectures, reading lists and detailed lesson plans.
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Das mediale Problem der Causa Koppetsch wird in diesem Text nur gestreift. Sie wurde von den Medien zur „AfD-Erklärerin“ gemacht, dabei hat sie in ihrem Buch die AfD nicht erklärt, sondern verklärt. Sie hat die Narrative der AfD legitimiert, indem sie ihnen soziologische Geltung verschafft hat.
Schwere Plagiatsvorwürfe: AfD-Erklärerin Cornelia Koppetsch droht Verlust der Professur
Es ist ein wissenschaftlicher Bankrott: Die Soziologin Cornelia Koppetsch hat offenbar auch in ihrer Habilitationsschrift plagiiert. Nun zieht ihre Hochschule Konsequenzen.
www.spiegel.de
January 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Das mediale Problem der Causa Koppetsch wird in diesem Text nur gestreift. Sie wurde von den Medien zur „AfD-Erklärerin“ gemacht, dabei hat sie in ihrem Buch die AfD nicht erklärt, sondern verklärt. Sie hat die Narrative der AfD legitimiert, indem sie ihnen soziologische Geltung verschafft hat.
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Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...