Mensen en hun leefomgeving. Steden, verstedelijking en het natuurlijke milieu Jan Rath pp. 317-348 in N. Wilterdink, D. Weenink, K. Rusinovic, en Bart van Heerikhuizen (eds), Samenlevingen. Inleiding in de Sociologie. Negende druk. Groningen: Noordhoff Uitgevers, 2022 Samenleven heeft een ruimtelijke component: het sociale leven speelt zich immers af in een bepaalde fysieke omgeving, op [...]

Like many other great port cities, Istanbul has re-vamped its waterfront so as to make it fit for today’s cognitive‐creative economy. Old and dirty manufacturing industries originally located at the Haliç — a small river that splits the European side in two — moved to different parts of the city, making space for a narrow [...]

Understanding Migration: Metropolis Project Jan Rath. Paul Spoonley and Mihaela Vieru IQ Konkret. Journal on Migration and Labour Market, 2: 40-43. The aim of Metropolis International is to enhance policy through empirical research and to support societies and organizations that are managing the many effects of migration and diversity > Reprinted as ‘Migration verstehen’,  IQ [...]

Wijkaanpak: bewoners steigeren als ze niet mogen meedenken Wetenschappers & professionals over maatschappelijke kwesties door Jan van Dam Wie heeft er eigenlijk baat bij een wijkaanpak? Dat was de kernvraag bij een evenement in Rotterdam over leefbare wijken. Stadssocioloog Jan Rath: ‘De verantwoordelijkheid voor kommer en kwel en voor de oplossing ervan zijn verschoven van [...]

Rath, J. (2022) Hippe ondernemingen, culturele consumptie en nieuwe stedelijkheid. Effecten van commerciële gentrificering. Essay in het kader van de prof. Dr. J.A.A. van Doorn leerstoel & NIAS_KNAW Van Doorn Fellowship. Rotterdam: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam: Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB). In de Vijfde Van Doornlezing wordt de opkomst en het vertoon van nieuwe [...]

Riots Erupt in Sweden After Planned Quran Burning Violent clashes erupted in Sweden after anti-Muslim activists held rallies that planned to include burning Islam's holy book, the Quran. Counter protests broke out against the far-right rallies, which eventually turned violent. Dozens were injured in scuffles as cars were set on fire. Condemnation against the planned [...]

Lodewijk Brunt: Flaneur in toga Frank Bovenkerk en Jan Rath 2022 Er is al een tijdje niks verschenen op de blog van onze vader Lo die in 2020 uit ons leven verdween. Dat vinden wij soms zonde van zo’n omvangrijk en divers document. Lodewijk’s oude studievriend en collega Frank Bovenkerk heeft samen met Jan Rath [...]

'Born and raised in the southern part of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in a poor and deprivileged neighbourhood Jan Rath studied anthropology and urban studies and eventually became a professor of urban sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He still holds this position today, while he is also affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam and Koç University [...]

Transportation of smaller goods in Istanbul, Turkey, has always been a marked feature in the urban landscape. The unique urban morphology contributed to the development of idiosyncratic ways of transportations. In the myriad of steep and narrow streets in old town Fatih, for example, notably in the artisanal enclave between Mısır Çarşısı (‘the spice bazaar’) [...]

Multifocality and opportunity structure: towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship, by Solano, G., V. Schutjens and J. Rath (2022) Comparative Migration Studies, 10(3): 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12934 This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship, which refers to migrants involved in cross-border entrepreneurial activities. Previous models and concepts in migrant entrepreneurship studies have not fully succeeded [...]