New publication alert: UQ|UP’s Sonia Roitman and Peter Walters write on urban informality in the Global South. This chapter provides an in-depth conceptual discussion on urban informality as a logic of organisation in the Global South that requires overcoming binary conceptual approaches, interwoven with research findings on informality in cities located in the Global South.

The book – a Research Handbook on Urban Sociology published by Edward Elgar – is a very impressive collection of innovative and contemporary approaches to understanding the urban space. Bringing together expert contributors from across the world, it provides a rich overview and research agenda for contemporary urban sociological scholarship. The book can be accessed through the publisher’s webpage.

To cite:

Roitman, Sonia and Walters, Peter (2024), The logic of informality in shaping urban collective action in the Global South, in Martinez, Miguel (Ed), Research Handbook on Urban Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltentham UK, 538-551.