Alexander Ferrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Ferrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrer |
| SIGNATURE | FERRER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1321-6723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Urbicidal Economics and the Racial Geographies of Triage
The contemporary urban system in the United States is characterized by the historic dominance of a few metropolitan regions often termed ‘superstar cities’, while the national political environment is increasingly polarized along urban–rural lines. Furthermore, both inter‐urban and intra‐urban difference in the US are deeply racialized, a fact that suffuses both critical and reactionary discourses which seek to explain and address differences in …
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles
Tenants of the World, Unite! From Atomisation to Structural Power in Financialised Tenancy
Recent transformations in the political economy of housing—particularly the corporatisation, concentration, and financialisation of landlording—paradoxically intensify both the atomisation of the tenant experience and the potential for organised tenants to exercise structural power. This potential collective power, however, is not self‐actualising. Building on two years of participatory action research and one year of operational data from the Ca…
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Almost half a century ago, a profoundly radical revolution transformed Cuba. The movement that put that revolution in power in January 1959, however, was far from radical at the start. Its shared goals were ousting Fulgencio Batista, who had assumed power in a military coup in 1952, and creating a stable democratic government that respected the progressive Constitution off 1940. Yet from January 1959 to the spring of 1961, under the leadership of…
Tenants of the World, Unite! From Atomisation to Structural Power in Financialised Tenancy
Recent transformations in the political economy of housing—particularly the corporatisation, concentration, and financialisation of landlording—paradoxically intensify both the atomisation of the tenant experience and the potential for organised tenants to exercise structural power. This potential collective power, however, is not self‐actualising. Building on two years of participatory action research and one year of operational data from the Ca…
Urbicidal Economics and the Racial Geographies of Triage
The contemporary urban system in the United States is characterized by the historic dominance of a few metropolitan regions often termed ‘superstar cities’, while the national political environment is increasingly polarized along urban–rural lines. Furthermore, both inter‐urban and intra‐urban difference in the US are deeply racialized, a fact that suffuses both critical and reactionary discourses which seek to explain and address differences in …
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Almost half a century ago, a profoundly radical revolution transformed Cuba. The movement that put that revolution in power in January 1959, however, was far from radical at the start. Its shared goals were ousting Fulgencio Batista, who had assumed power in a military coup in 1952, and creating a stable democratic government that respected the progressive Constitution off 1940. Yet from January 1959 to the spring of 1961, under the leadership of…
Tenants of the World, Unite! From Atomisation to Structural Power in Financialised Tenancy
Recent transformations in the political economy of housing—particularly the corporatisation, concentration, and financialisation of landlording—paradoxically intensify both the atomisation of the tenant experience and the potential for organised tenants to exercise structural power. This potential collective power, however, is not self‐actualising. Building on two years of participatory action research and one year of operational data from the Ca…
Urbicidal Economics and the Racial Geographies of Triage
The contemporary urban system in the United States is characterized by the historic dominance of a few metropolitan regions often termed ‘superstar cities’, while the national political environment is increasingly polarized along urban–rural lines. Furthermore, both inter‐urban and intra‐urban difference in the US are deeply racialized, a fact that suffuses both critical and reactionary discourses which seek to explain and address differences in …
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (2 works) · Business (1 works) · Constitution (1 works)