Michael Gentile

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Email michael.gentile@sosgeo.uio.no
Phone +47-22855150
Room 315
Available hours By appointment.
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Harriet Holters hus 0851 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1096 Blindern 0317 OSLO

Academic interests

Urban geography, geopolitics, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, housing, socio-spatial differentiation, labour migration, interviewer effects.

Research projects

Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities: Urban identity, geopolitics and urban policy (NFR/NORRUSS, project no. 287267), 2018-2022.

Project website at UiO.

Project website in Ukraine.

Courses taught

  • SGO3500 (Spring, yearly) - Urban structures and urban development (in Scandinavian)
  • HGO4201 (Fall 2019) - Urban geographical theory (in English)

Background

PhD 2004 (Uppsala University)

Post-doc 2005-2007 (Stockholm School of Economics)

Docent 2009 (Uppsala University)

Editing

Associate editor: Eurasian Geography and Economics: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rege20/current.

Tags: Human Geography, Urban development, Geopolitics, Ukraine

Publications

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=zZRuA7wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.

Articles and book chapters (2015-2019):

  1. Gentile, M. and Ö. Sjöberg (2019), Neoliberalism(s) as a guide to post-Wall urban change: explanation out of the blue? Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (forthcoming).
  2. Gentile, M. (2019), Geopolitical fault-line cities in the world of divided cities, Political Geography 71 (2019): 126-138.
  3. Borén, T. and M. Gentile (2019), "Wrestling with the Soviet State: a Life History of Housing in Leningrad", in L. Drummond och D. Young (red.), Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), forthcoming.
  4. Chan, K.W., M. Gentile, N. Kinossian, T. Oakes  and C. Young (2018), Editorial – theory generation, comparative analysis and bringing the “Global East” into play, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 59 (1): 1-6.
  5. Mezentsev, K., M. Gentile, N. Mezentseva and Iu. Stebletska (2018), An island of civilization in a sea of delay? Indifference and fragmentation along the rugged shorelines of Kiev’s newbuild archipelago, Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1503544.
  6. Gentile, M. (2018), Gentrifications in the planetary elsewhere: Tele-urbanization, Schengtrification, colour-splashing, and the mirage of "more-than-adequate" critical theory, Urban Geography 39 (10): 1455-1464.
  7. Gentile, M. (2018), Three metals and the “post-socialist city”: reclaiming the peripheries of urban knowledge, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42 (6): 1140-1151.
  8. Gentile, M. (2017), "Staden och den geopolitiska förkastningslinjen", in T. Borén (ed.), Urban Utveckling och Interaktion, YMER 2017 (Stockholm: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi), pp. 49-69.
  9. Gentile, M. (2017), "Geopolitical fault-line cities", in A. Pikulicka-Wilczewska and G. Uehling (eds.), Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two-Country Perspective (Bristol: E-International Relations), pp. 6-24.
  10. Gentile, M. (2017), "Boligsegregasjon", in D. Jordhus-Lier and K. Stokke (eds.), Innføring i Samfunnsgeografi (Oslo: Cappelen Damm), pp. 217-231.
  11. Ferenčuhová, S. and M. Gentile (2016), Introduction: Post-socialist cities and urban theory, Eurasian Geography and Economics 57 (4):483-496.
  12. Gentile, M. (2016), Neighbourhood reputation in the Soviet and early post-Soviet city: disassembling the geography of prestige in Ust’-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, European Urban and Regional Studies 23 (4): 697-715.
  13. Bernt, M., M. Gentile and S. Marcińczak (2015), Gentrification in post-communist countries: an introduction, Geografie 120 (2): 104-112.
  14. Gentile, M., J. Salukvadze and D. Gogishvili (2015), Newbuild gentrification, tele-urbanization and urban growth: placing the cities of the post-Communist South in the gentrification debate, Geografie 120 (2): 134-163.
  15. Gentile, M. (2015), The ‘Soviet’ factor: exploring perceived housing inequalities in a mid-sized city in the Donbas, Ukraine, Urban Geography 36 (5): 696-720.
  16. Gentile, M. (2015), The post-Soviet urban poor and where they live: Khrushchev-era blocks, "bad" areas, and the vertical dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105 (3): 583-603.
  17. Gentile, M. (2015), West-oriented in the East-oriented Donbas: A political stratigraphy of geopolitical identity in Luhansk, Ukraine, Post-Soviet Affairs 31 (3): 201-223.
  18. Marcińczak, S. T. Tammaru, J. Novák, M. Gentile, Z. Kovács, J. Temelová, V. Valatka, A. Kährik and B. Szabó (2015), Patterns of socioeconomic segregation in the capital cities of fast-track reforming post-socialist countries, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105 (1): 183-202.

Theme issue:

Ferenčuhová, S. and M. Gentile (2016)(guest eds.), Post-socialist cities and urban theory, Eurasian Geography and Economics 57 (4/5).

Includes contributions by Slavomira Ferencuhova & Michael Gentile; Slavomira Ferencuhová; Sonia Hirt; Tauri Tuvikene; Martin Ourednicek; Matthias Bernt; Thomas Borén & Craig Young; Oleg Golubchikov; Stefan Bouzarovski, Ludek Sykora och Roman Matousek; Jennifer Robinson.

Published Sep. 6, 2016 12:15 AM - Last modified May 13, 2019 1:31 PM

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