Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University)

Sociologist. On cities and struggles for social justice. From Spain, now based in Sweden. Author of "Squatters in the Capitalist City".

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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!
https://t.co/djTa0OGEVy

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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: https://t.co/dGVnsHAg4A

[La Villana / PAH Vallekas @lavillanavk]

⌚ Tic, tac. Se les ha acabado el tiempo.

Contra su represión: organización, lucha y resistencia.
Ni mordazas, ni deudas, ni miedo.

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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: https://t.co/C952dms2he Otherwise, check my own webpage: https://t.co/oblQds9AsI

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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). https://t.co/sF94cDpvXR

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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.
https://t.co/lnStv2kItA

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

Ahorra tu dinero en finanzas éticas como Coop57. 10 años de anticapitalismo práctico: https://t.co/XWGaVmRpQE

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

Siguen las presentaciones y debates sobre nuestro último libro :)

[Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid @InquilinatoMad]

🏆💸 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

[Lorenzo Vidal @buenaventura_v]

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 https://t.co/slK6wqUmDD

[EDICIONES AKAL @AkalEditor]

¿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.

➡️ https://t.co/Bk05ikngcY

[Research Platform: The Challenge of Urban Futures @UrbanFuturesPl]

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: https://t.co/WGzQqASqj8

📅3rd December 2025
🕛11:00 AM (CET) via Zoom

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

🚨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.

https://t.co/ZDGdtQ9r22

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

"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:
https://t.co/AhXb8Emccm

[EDICIONES AKAL @AkalEditor]

🏙️ 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

➡️ https://t.co/Bk05ikmInq

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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.

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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

[EDICIONES AKAL @AkalEditor]

🤔 ¿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'

https://t.co/IjwDF3bHo7

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

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).
https://t.co/LvlRrwJXNm

[Lorenzo Vidal @buenaventura_v]

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

[Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) @autodesplan]

Freshly arrived today! A brilliant research by Saila-Maria Saaristo that adds up lots of arguments and evidence on urban squatting/occupations. Congrats!