Elites in Cities, Elite Cities: Processes of (dis)Affiliation, (dis)Connection and Distinction Part II

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: ASJE016 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)

Language: English

This panel gathers together work on the question of how new and existing wealth elites make social and physical places to accommodate themselves in urban settings. The papers in this dynamic ‘express’ panel format (each being allocated a strictly timed 8-minute presentation, followed by 26 minutes of roundtable discussion) will examine how elites spatially and socially integrate, or maintain social and physical distance, from the wider urban fabric and other social groups. The panel will offer a series of empirical contributions regarding the extent to which elite spaces are becoming physically bounded and withdrawn, or indeed findings methods and modes of interaction with the wider city. The presentations will also examine relations within and between new and existing urban elites in these contrasting cities.
Session Organizers:
Rowland ATKINSON, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and Sharda ROZENA, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Oral Presentations
Climate Apartheid? How Elite Adoption of Private Solar Disrupts South Africa’s Just Transition
Charlotte LEMANSKI, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Christina CULWICK FATTI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Fiona ANCIANO, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Luxury Condos and the Role of Amenity Spaces in Processes of Disconnection
Nataliya MURZENKO, Université de Tours, France; Ute LEHRER, York University, Canada
Alpha Territorialisation Venice Edition
Carla TEDESCO, Italy; Matteo BASSO, IUAV University of Venice, Italy; Valeria MOREA, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Enclaves and Villages:Tourism Spread in Goa
Shashwat VIKRAM SINGH, India
Altitude Matters. How Urban Super Rich People Make Super Elitist Alps.
Giovanni SEMI, Università di Torino, Italy; Magda BOLZONI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Marta TONETTA, University of Turin, University of Milan, Italy, Italy