Ryan Centner, PhD
Sociologist, Geographer, Urbanist
London, England / Portland, Oregon
Teaching
courses taught, past & present
Urban Geography & Globalisation (undergraduate)
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Research Techniques in Geography (undergraduate)
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Development, Culture & Urban Inequality in Cuba (undergraduate, field course in Havana)
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Urban Planning & Development in Africa (undergraduate & postgraduate; field course in Cape Town)
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Urban Transformations (postgraduate)
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Research Seminar in Urbanisation, Planning & Development (postgraduate)
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The London Lab: Historical & Cultural Geographies in the City (undergraduate)
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Contemporary Debates in Human Geography & Urban Studies (postgraduate)
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Urban Development, Culture & the Postcolonial Question in Latin America
(postgraduate)
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Urban Theory & Policy in the Global South (postgraduate)
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Globalization & Social Change (undergraduate)
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Qualitative Research Methods (undergraduate)
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Urban Sociology (undergraduate)
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Political Sociology (undergraduate)
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Cities of the Global South (undergraduate)
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Sociology of Modernization & Development (undergraduate)
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Sociology of the Built Environment (undergraduate)
Published Work
Selected articles & other works
Ryan has published in a variety of leading urban venues across social-science disciplines. His work in different world regions has gained global attention and feeds into a number of projects for articles and books currently in preparation, beyond those listed here.
The Oxford Handbook of Urban Sociology (Oxford University Press)
(co-edited with Leonard Nevarez; 2023, under contract)
“A very Nordic set of concerns? Visionary circumspection & theoretical conversations with the rest of the world.” Nordic Journal of Urban Studies 1(1): 19-41.
“Geographies of entitled anger: Revanchist populism in Brazil & beyond” (special issue, and editor's introduction)
(co-edited with Mara Nogueira; under review)
“Clashing power-geometries: The transformation of centrality in Caracas”
(2020; revise & resubmit); available as working paper at http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105117
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“On not being Dubai: Infrastructures of urban cultural policy in Istanbul & Beirut”
International Journal of Cultural Policy 26(6): 722-739.
“Urban Cascadia: Distinctive, Innovative & Unequal Cities in the Pacific Northwest.”
Community & Urban Sociology Section Newsletter (American Sociological Association) 28(3): 1 & 8-14.
2016; available in PDF here
“Distinguishing the Right Kind of City: Contentious Urban Middle Classes in Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey,” in Locating the Right to the City in the Global South, edited by Tony Samara, Shenjing He, and Guo Chen. Routledge.
2013; available in PDF here
“Techniques of Absence in Participatory Budgeting: Space, Difference, and Governmentality across Buenos Aires.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 31(2): 142-159.
“Moving away, Moving onward: Displacement Pressures and Divergent Neighborhood Politics in Buenos Aires.” Environment & Planning A: Economy & Space 44(11): 2555-2573.
2012; doi.org/10.1068/a44440
“Microcitizenships: Fractious Forms of Belonging after Argentine Neoliberalism.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36(2): 336-362.
“Ways out of Crisis in Buenos Aires: Translocal Landscapes and the Activation of Mobile Resources,” pages 109-124, in Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places and Connections, edited by Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2011
“Spatializing Distinction in Cities of the Global South: Volatile Terrains of Morality and Citizenship.” Political Power and Social Theory 21: 281-298.
“Cities and Strategic Elsewheres: Developments in the Transnational Politics of Remaking Urban Space.” New Global Studies 4(1): 1-7.
“Places of Privileged Consumption Practices: Spatial Capital, the Dot-Com Habitus, and San Francisco’s Internet Boom.” City & Community 7(3): 193-223.
“Peril, privilege & queer comforts: The nocturnal performative geographies of expatriate gay men in Dubai.” Geoforum 127: 92-103.
co-authored with Manoel Pereira Neto, 2021; bit.ly/gaysindubai
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