In today’s episode, we examine the interdependence between urban displacements, surplus populations and surplus capital in Susanne Soederberg’s recent book “Urban Displacements. Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism” published in late 2020 with Routledge. We explore the links between surplus money and surplus workers, social and rental housing, precarious work and urban poverty under capitalism, but also the political role of state actors in the reproduction of surplus capital and surplus populations producing cycles of urban displacements.
Check out Susanne's book "Urban Displacements. Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism"
Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Displacements-Governing-Surplus-and-Survival-in-Global-Capitalism/Soederberg/p/book/9780367236199
You can follow Susanne on Twitter @soederberg1
Susanne's departmental webpage: https://www.queensu.ca/devs/susanne-soederberg
Susanne's publications on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susanne-Soederberg/research
For a sample of Susanne's previous work
Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781315761954/debtfare-states-poverty-industry-susanne-soederberg
Evictions: A Global Capitalist Phenomenon
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dech.12383
Other readings recommended by Susanne
The Financialization of Housing by Manuel Aalbers
https://www.routledge.com/The-Financialization-of-Housing-A-political-economy-approach/Aalbers/p/book/9781138092907
In Defence of Housing by David Madden and Peter Marcuse
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2111-in-defense-of-housing