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David Madden

@davidjmadden.bsky.social
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Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social: ‘Privileged Precarity’. It explores how middle class young professionals leverage housing insecurity to synchronise their lives with the rhythms of precarious labour markets. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
📢 BOOK LAUNCH EVENT📢 The good folk at Urban Salon are hosting the launch of my new book 'Postcapitalist Cities' on 1 May 4pm at KCL where I'll be in discussion with @davidjmadden.bsky.social & @gypjh2000.bsky.social Details & FREE tickets here: theurbansalon.com/2026/02/19/b...
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Book Launch: Postcapitalist Cities (Oli Mould) – The Urban Salon
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
💭 How do planners work amid social division, post‑truth politics, and fractured publics? Mona Fawaz and @davidjmadden.bsky.social join us next week to discuss planning in #Beirut after the 2020 Port explosion. 📅 Mon 2 March | 6.30pm #Cities #LSE
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CITY Annual Lecture | Planning amid division with Prof Mona Fawaz
6.30pm Mon 2 March | Mona Fawaz | Free public event at LSE
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🌍 From #Beirut’s 2020 Port explosion to #global planning debates: Prof. Mona Fawaz reflects on knowledge, politics, and representation in polarised contexts. Chaired by @davidjmadden.bsky.social. 📅 2 March | 6.30pm 🎟️ Open to all and free to attend #LSE #Sociology #Cities
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CITY Annual Lecture | Planning amid division with Prof Mona Fawaz
6.30pm Mon 2 March | Mona Fawaz | Free public event at LSE
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Now out: Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City Environment and Planning F Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social and many more!
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“Resolving the housing crisis depends upon reversing and replacing the changes to the British housing system and society that Right to Buy helped to bring about.” Our latest report covered by @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden
A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"Before the policy, social housing made up 31% of overall housing tenure in England. Today it is 16%, causing council housing waiting lists and homelessness to surge." 📰 Read @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the enduring impact of Thatcher's Right to Buy policy.
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Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden
A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
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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,...
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Josefina Jaureguiberry-Mondion @josejota.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Join us at the @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for In Defense of Housing (2nd ed.) with @davidjmadden.bsky.social – reading group (1 July) + book launch (4 July). Organised by the Rent Cultures Network. Register: forms.gle/vYUf2F1ciPha... @potentiaspace.bsky.social
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Worst musician-wanted ad on Gumtree
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Imagine what the political and economic landscape would look like if, at any point since 1999, instead of pushing the Washington Consensus, the Democrats and similar parties worldwide had actually listened to the alter-globalization movement and the left critique of free trade
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Who runs Britain—its people or the markets & oligarchs? Reeves is boxed in by bond yields. But the truth is: we all are. Democracy has two paths: 1. Obey markets, accept decline and creeping fascism. 2. Disrupt their power. Deepen economic & social democracy. There is no ‘third way’ this time.
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This month is giving serious March 2020 vibes—same pervasive feeling of anxiety and sense that the world is accelerating towards unknown disaster
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My editorial in the newest issue of CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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There is no alternative to creating an alternative: critical urban studies in the authoritarian moment
Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
London twilight never gets old
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
😐
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
tbh I’m starting to think that this Trump fellow might not be totally on the level
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What happens when you try to report a post over on the Hell Site. At this rate, this may soon be what happens when Americans dial 911
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Social Reproduction and the Housing Question
There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt t...
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
How has the battle for housing shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city? At this event, Sarah El-Kazaz, @davidjmadden.bsky.social and Mai Taha will explore the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo.
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Politics in the crevices
Join this free LSE event discussing Politics in the Crevices by Sarah El-Kazaz.
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Tonight! ⤵️
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Where is Jean Baudrillard when we, improbably, actually need him
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Next week we will hear from @graceblakeley.bsky.social and @michaelvaughan.bsky.social about Grace's recent book, Vulture Capitalism. They will join @davidjmadden.bsky.social to discuss how the causes of our modern crises are the result of the economic system we have built.
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Vulture capitalism
6.30pm Mon 13 Jan | Vulture Capitalism book launch | Grace Blakeley, Dr Michael Vaughan | Free public event at LSE
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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
📖 El lunes 13 de enero tenemos la primera sesión del año del 'Club de Lectura Capitán Barrio'. En esta ocasión trataremos 'En defensa de la vivienda', de @davidjmadden.bsky.social y Peter Marcuse y nos acompañarán @javigil.bsky.social, académico y activista en defensa del derecho a la vivienda
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Jean-Paul Torres @jpaulito.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
“…it is the first case in 20 or 30 years that Mexico has broken with the neoliberal dogma that there is no money for this. ‘This is living proof that if you want to, you can spend money on the poor.’”
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
“You know the programme is working when the rich are complaining that the poor have a gym and a swimming pool.” Utopías now! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City
A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Very Christmasy in Camden Passage
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).
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Assistant Professor in Sociology
Assistant Professor in Sociology, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and…
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Well that’s sad news. Did they identify everyone with their typical order or was it just me that they addressed as “David Whitefish”? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...
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A Bagel Shop Closed, and the Upper West Side Is Absolutely Losing It
The neighborhood reaction to the sudden closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Christmas at LSE
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is an important analysis by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social. If Labour think they can meaningfully address the housing problem by relying on the private sector, they are deeply mistaken.
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In the kitchen post-meal, cleaning up while listening to music—that’s housework at its best and most fun. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Calling it now, Trump’s nominee for head of the National Endowment of the Arts will be Kid Rock
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Financialized capitalism and social housing (still)
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
1990s urbanism fads are new again in the so-called “Fleet Street Quarter.” I guess whenever a Business Improvement District appears, unwanted neighbourhood rebranding and fibreglass statues won’t be too far behind
Fibreglass statue of a penguin, Chancery Lane, Central London
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Why can’t we just call them tweets now that Twitter is called X
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The difference in tone between here and the Hellsite is v interesting. Is it by design, or just the lack of people on it? Is it that everyone was lowkey traumatised by all the nazis on Twitter so they're being extra cautious here? I'm not complaining--it's def better. Just wondering about the cause
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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I'm finding the lack of content on here quite refreshing, compared to the Hellsite
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