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Professor Fran Tonkiss

Professor Fran Tonkiss

Professor in Sociology

Department of Sociology

Room No
OLD.M3.05
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Urban Sociology, Inequalities, Urban Economies, Spatial Divisions

About me

Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology. Her research and teaching are in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her work focuses on urban inequalities, urban design and development, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. She is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology, City and Economy and Society.

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Expertise Details

Urban Sociology; Inequalities; Urban Economies; Spatial Divisions

Selected publications

Books

(2013) Cambridge: Polity.

(2006) London: Routledge.

(2005) Cambridge: Polity.

, with Don Slater (2001) Cambridge: Polity.

Trust and Civil Society, edited with Andrew Passey (2000) London: Macmillan.

Selected Articles and Chapters 

(2024) ‘Gendering urban public space’, in L. Peake, A. Datta and G. Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (eds) Handbook on Gender and Cities. Cheltenham: Elgar. pp. 47-55.

(2024) ‘’, in N. Amorós Elorduy, N. Sinha and C. Marx (eds) Urban Informality and the Built Environment: Infrastructure, Exchange and Image. London: UCL Press. pp. 33-39.

(2023) ‘’, in T. Haas (ed.) Women Reclaiming the City: International Research on Urbanism, Architecture, and Planning. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. 23-30.

(2020) ‘’, City 24/1-2: 286-301.

(2019) ‘’, in T. Banerjee and A. Loukaitou-Sideris (eds) The New Companion to Urban Design. New York: Routledge. pp. 15-27.

(2018) ‘Gendering urban protest: politics, bodies and space’, in K. Ward, et al. (eds) The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics. London: Routledge. 518-527.

(2018) ‘’, Introduction to edited special feature, City 22/3: 321-323.

(2018) 'Focus groups', in C. Seale (ed.) Researching Society and Culture (4th edition). London: Sage. 237-256.

(2018) 'Discourse analysis', in C. Seale (ed.) Researching Society and Culture (4th edition). London: Sage. 477-92.

(2018) 'Content and text analysis' (co-authored with Clive Seale), in C. Seale (ed.) Researching Society and Culture (4th edition). London: Sage. 403-428.

(2017) '.' City, 21/6: 872-882.

(2017) ', in S. Hall and R. Burdett (eds) The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. London: Sage Publishing, pp. 187-200.

(2017) 'Commodity or commons? Knowledge, inequality, and the city'. In. T. Haas and H. Westlund (eds) In the Post-urban World. London: Taylor and Francis. pp.210-221.

(2015) ‘, City 19/2-3: 384-91.

(2015) '', in M. Bull and L. Back (eds) The Auditory Culture Reader (2nd edition). London: Routledge.

(2015) ‘Radical inclusivity: interview with Fran Tonkiss’, in K. Nawratek (ed.) Radical Inclusivity: architecture and urbanism. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona.

(2014) ‘From austerity to audacity: make-shift urbanism and the post-crisis city’, in F. Ferguson (ed.) Make_Shift City: Renegotiating the Urban Commons. Berlin: Jovis Verlag.

(2013) ‘’, City 17/3: 312-24.

(2012) 'Informality and its discontents', in M.Angélil and R.Hehl (eds) Informalize! Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form. Berlin: Ruby Press, pp. 55-70.

(2012) ‘, City, 16/1-2: 216-19.

(2011) ‘’, City, 15/5: 584-88.

(2011) '', City, 15/1: 85-86.

(2010) '', (co-authored with Jamie Keddie) City, Culture and Society 1/3: 57-67.

(2010) 'Urban poverty and gender in advanced economies: the persistence of feminised disadvantage', in S. Chant (ed.) The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: concepts, research, policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 153-8.

(2010) ‘, British Journal of Sociology, 61 (s1): 343-345.

(2010) ‘’ British Journal of Sociology, 61 (s1): 141-145.

(2009) ‘’, Intereconomics 44/4: 196-202. 

(2009) '', Sociology 43/1: 179-85.

(2008) '', New Formations 65/4: 67-77.

(2008) '' Economy and Society 37/2: 304-12.

(2008) '', Sociology Compass 2/2: 577-593.

(2007) ', in E. D. Ermath (ed.) Rewriting Democracy. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 66-81.

(2006) '' Economic Sociology The European Electronic Newsletter 7/3: 3-8. 

(2003) ''. International Journal of Cultural Studies 6/3, pp. 297-311.

Research

Fran's research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban design and development, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space.  Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006). She is the co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey). 

Fran is part of the Urban Sociology cluster.

Teaching and PhD supervision

Fran Tonkiss teaches on the MSc City Design and Social Science Programme, and convenes a graduate course on .

Fran Tonkiss supervises doctoral students undertaking research in urban and spatial sociology.