Thomas Maloutas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Maloutas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Maloutas |
| SIGNATURE | MALOUTAS T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Athens: A Rapidly Changing Metropolis in the European South
Segregation/Desegregation
Desegregation is a process bringing different social groups and ethnicities into greater proximity. New waves of international migration have initiated a process of ethnic and racial desegregation in many cities, and social class desegregation has been halted by growing economic inequality, the financial crisis, and the housing crash. Civil rights and social justice movements have historically contributed to shaping policies for desegregation, es…
Athens
Athens is a Mediterranean metropolis developed following push rather than pull factors. Its weakly developed industry and welfare services are reflected in the haphazard shape of its urban tissue. The low level of social and ethnic segregation corresponds to much higher levels of inequality among social and ethnic groups. The structure and property relations in the bulk of the housing stock, the importance of family networks for residential locat…
Residential Segregation
Segregation is a particular residential distribution of the city's population whereby members of a particular population category are not distributed uniformly across space in relation to the rest of the population. Research has focused on groups whose spatial separation was perceived as a social or political problem, such as racial or ethnic minorities, the poor, and the lower categories in established social hierarchies. The levels and patterns…
Contextual Diversity in Gentrification Research
This article argues against the allegedly inter-contextual character of gentrification within the new gentrification research agenda. The main argument is that gentrification is a concept highly dependent on contextual causality and its generalized use will not remove its contextual attachment to the Anglo-American metropolis. The second argument is that looking for gentrification in increasingly varied contexts displaces emphasis from causal mec…
Mobilité sociale et ségrégation à Athènes: Formes de séparatisme social dans un contexte de mobilité spatiale réduite
La ségrégation est une forme de séparatisme social produite par la discrimination ouverte ou par l’agrégation des choix de localisation résidentielle. Un environnement de haute mobilité sociale et de régulation libérale de l’allocation du logement favorise la ségrégation à travers la mobilité résidentielle induite par la mobilité sociale et le triage spatial qui en résulte. L’exemple d’Athènes montre que, même quand ces conditions ne sont pas réu…
Urban Outcasts: A Contextualized Outlook on Advanced Marginality
This comment on Urban Outcasts appreciates Wacquant's awareness of contextual difference and his effort to theorize advanced marginality. Two critical remarks are formulated regarding the use of the polarization thesis as the backdrop for analyzing advanced marginality (which, in my view, goes against the contextual sensitivity of the analysis), and the neglect of the neighbourhood effect literature, which is summarily discarded. The second half …
Middle class education strategies and residential segregation in Athens
This paper uses census data to investigate educational inequality in different types of residential areas in Athens, focusing on drop‐out rates from secondary education, access to higher education and to particular degrees within it. The unequal socio‐spatial distribution of educational attainment is linked to antagonistic middle class education strategies centred on school choice. Different forms of such strategies are identified broadly corresp…
Socio-Economic Classification Models and Contextual Difference: The ‘European Socio-economic Classes’ (ESeC) from a South European Angle
The paper provides a critical overview of a new socio-economic classification model, the 'European Socio-economic Classes' (ESeC), which aspires to become the classification standard for the European Union (EU). After a brief presentation of its basic features and theoretical foundation, the paper focuses on the compatibility of this model with the South European context. The main issue is that the central classifying principle of the model is th…
Segregation, Social Polarization and Immigration in Athens during the 1990s: Theoretical Expectations and Contextual Difference
This article investigates trends in segregation, polarization and inequality in Athens during the 1990s, and focuses on what may seem a paradoxical coexistence of decreasing segregation with increasing social polarization and inequality. To explain this coexistence, the article examines the distinction between social polarization in specific contexts and the dominant assumptions about social polarization, which derive from the global city thesis,…
Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe
The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe - there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing …
The glass menagerie of urban governance and social cohesion: Concepts and Stakes/Concepts as Stakes
Social goals and social action are increasingly framed by a host of ambiguously egalitarian notions. The ambiguity of notions like 'social cohesion' originates principally in the tentative accommodation of competition and social justice that former radical approaches considered in fundamental contradiction. The social cohesion terminology has become part of political realism and the question is whether such notions are or could be fuelling practi…
Promoting social sustainability The case of Athens
The extension of the European Community has led to the application of policies and strategies (and their underlying concepts and assumptions) generated in one set of national and historical contexts to quite other situations. This paper examines the idea of 'sustainability’—and especially social sustainability—arguing that it is an imperative which has been first de‐socialized and then re‐socialized. It is de‐socialized in that the pursuit of equ…
Vertical Social Differentiation in Athens: Alternative or Complement to Community Segregation
Vertical social differentiation is presented in the recent literature as an important element of reduced segregation in South European cities, and the supporting evidence originates mainly from Athens. The authors of this article question the claim about the common form and function of vertical social differentiation across South Europe, as well as its opposition to community segregation, and try to reveal the specificity of the processes leading…
Contextual Diversity in Gentrification Research
This article argues against the allegedly inter-contextual character of gentrification within the new gentrification research agenda. The main argument is that gentrification is a concept highly dependent on contextual causality and its generalized use will not remove its contextual attachment to the Anglo-American metropolis. The second argument is that looking for gentrification in increasingly varied contexts displaces emphasis from causal mec…
Segregation, Social Polarization and Immigration in Athens during the 1990s: Theoretical Expectations and Contextual Difference
This article investigates trends in segregation, polarization and inequality in Athens during the 1990s, and focuses on what may seem a paradoxical coexistence of decreasing segregation with increasing social polarization and inequality. To explain this coexistence, the article examines the distinction between social polarization in specific contexts and the dominant assumptions about social polarization, which derive from the global city thesis,…
The glass menagerie of urban governance and social cohesion: Concepts and Stakes/Concepts as Stakes
Social goals and social action are increasingly framed by a host of ambiguously egalitarian notions. The ambiguity of notions like 'social cohesion' originates principally in the tentative accommodation of competition and social justice that former radical approaches considered in fundamental contradiction. The social cohesion terminology has become part of political realism and the question is whether such notions are or could be fuelling practi…
Middle class education strategies and residential segregation in Athens
This paper uses census data to investigate educational inequality in different types of residential areas in Athens, focusing on drop‐out rates from secondary education, access to higher education and to particular degrees within it. The unequal socio‐spatial distribution of educational attainment is linked to antagonistic middle class education strategies centred on school choice. Different forms of such strategies are identified broadly corresp…
Vertical Social Differentiation in Athens: Alternative or Complement to Community Segregation
Vertical social differentiation is presented in the recent literature as an important element of reduced segregation in South European cities, and the supporting evidence originates mainly from Athens. The authors of this article question the claim about the common form and function of vertical social differentiation across South Europe, as well as its opposition to community segregation, and try to reveal the specificity of the processes leading…
Socio-Economic Classification Models and Contextual Difference: The ‘European Socio-economic Classes’ (ESeC) from a South European Angle
The paper provides a critical overview of a new socio-economic classification model, the 'European Socio-economic Classes' (ESeC), which aspires to become the classification standard for the European Union (EU). After a brief presentation of its basic features and theoretical foundation, the paper focuses on the compatibility of this model with the South European context. The main issue is that the central classifying principle of the model is th…
Promoting social sustainability The case of Athens
The extension of the European Community has led to the application of policies and strategies (and their underlying concepts and assumptions) generated in one set of national and historical contexts to quite other situations. This paper examines the idea of 'sustainability’—and especially social sustainability—arguing that it is an imperative which has been first de‐socialized and then re‐socialized. It is de‐socialized in that the pursuit of equ…
Urban Outcasts: A Contextualized Outlook on Advanced Marginality
This comment on Urban Outcasts appreciates Wacquant's awareness of contextual difference and his effort to theorize advanced marginality. Two critical remarks are formulated regarding the use of the polarization thesis as the backdrop for analyzing advanced marginality (which, in my view, goes against the contextual sensitivity of the analysis), and the neglect of the neighbourhood effect literature, which is summarily discarded. The second half …
Vertical Social Differentiation in Athens: Alternative or Complement to Community Segregation
Vertical social differentiation is presented in the recent literature as an important element of reduced segregation in South European cities, and the supporting evidence originates mainly from Athens. The authors of this article question the claim about the common form and function of vertical social differentiation across South Europe, as well as its opposition to community segregation, and try to reveal the specificity of the processes leading…
Promoting social sustainability The case of Athens
The extension of the European Community has led to the application of policies and strategies (and their underlying concepts and assumptions) generated in one set of national and historical contexts to quite other situations. This paper examines the idea of 'sustainability’—and especially social sustainability—arguing that it is an imperative which has been first de‐socialized and then re‐socialized. It is de‐socialized in that the pursuit of equ…
Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe
The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe - there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing …
The glass menagerie of urban governance and social cohesion: Concepts and Stakes/Concepts as Stakes
Social goals and social action are increasingly framed by a host of ambiguously egalitarian notions. The ambiguity of notions like 'social cohesion' originates principally in the tentative accommodation of competition and social justice that former radical approaches considered in fundamental contradiction. The social cohesion terminology has become part of political realism and the question is whether such notions are or could be fuelling practi…
Middle class education strategies and residential segregation in Athens
This paper uses census data to investigate educational inequality in different types of residential areas in Athens, focusing on drop‐out rates from secondary education, access to higher education and to particular degrees within it. The unequal socio‐spatial distribution of educational attainment is linked to antagonistic middle class education strategies centred on school choice. Different forms of such strategies are identified broadly corresp…
Socio-Economic Classification Models and Contextual Difference: The ‘European Socio-economic Classes’ (ESeC) from a South European Angle
The paper provides a critical overview of a new socio-economic classification model, the 'European Socio-economic Classes' (ESeC), which aspires to become the classification standard for the European Union (EU). After a brief presentation of its basic features and theoretical foundation, the paper focuses on the compatibility of this model with the South European context. The main issue is that the central classifying principle of the model is th…
Segregation, Social Polarization and Immigration in Athens during the 1990s: Theoretical Expectations and Contextual Difference
This article investigates trends in segregation, polarization and inequality in Athens during the 1990s, and focuses on what may seem a paradoxical coexistence of decreasing segregation with increasing social polarization and inequality. To explain this coexistence, the article examines the distinction between social polarization in specific contexts and the dominant assumptions about social polarization, which derive from the global city thesis,…
Urban Outcasts: A Contextualized Outlook on Advanced Marginality
This comment on Urban Outcasts appreciates Wacquant's awareness of contextual difference and his effort to theorize advanced marginality. Two critical remarks are formulated regarding the use of the polarization thesis as the backdrop for analyzing advanced marginality (which, in my view, goes against the contextual sensitivity of the analysis), and the neglect of the neighbourhood effect literature, which is summarily discarded. The second half …
Mobilité sociale et ségrégation à Athènes: Formes de séparatisme social dans un contexte de mobilité spatiale réduite
La ségrégation est une forme de séparatisme social produite par la discrimination ouverte ou par l’agrégation des choix de localisation résidentielle. Un environnement de haute mobilité sociale et de régulation libérale de l’allocation du logement favorise la ségrégation à travers la mobilité résidentielle induite par la mobilité sociale et le triage spatial qui en résulte. L’exemple d’Athènes montre que, même quand ces conditions ne sont pas réu…
Contextual Diversity in Gentrification Research
This article argues against the allegedly inter-contextual character of gentrification within the new gentrification research agenda. The main argument is that gentrification is a concept highly dependent on contextual causality and its generalized use will not remove its contextual attachment to the Anglo-American metropolis. The second argument is that looking for gentrification in increasingly varied contexts displaces emphasis from causal mec…
Residential Segregation
Segregation is a particular residential distribution of the city's population whereby members of a particular population category are not distributed uniformly across space in relation to the rest of the population. Research has focused on groups whose spatial separation was perceived as a social or political problem, such as racial or ethnic minorities, the poor, and the lower categories in established social hierarchies. The levels and patterns…
Segregation/Desegregation
Desegregation is a process bringing different social groups and ethnicities into greater proximity. New waves of international migration have initiated a process of ethnic and racial desegregation in many cities, and social class desegregation has been halted by growing economic inequality, the financial crisis, and the housing crash. Civil rights and social justice movements have historically contributed to shaping policies for desegregation, es…
Athens
Athens is a Mediterranean metropolis developed following push rather than pull factors. Its weakly developed industry and welfare services are reflected in the haphazard shape of its urban tissue. The low level of social and ethnic segregation corresponds to much higher levels of inequality among social and ethnic groups. The structure and property relations in the bulk of the housing stock, the importance of family networks for residential locat…
Athens: A Rapidly Changing Metropolis in the European South
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Politics (5 works)