School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Kirsteen Paton

  • Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Class (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

Research interests

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Class at the University of Glasgow. My work explores the complex relationship between urban restructuring and class restructuring, with a focus on housing accumulation, dispossession and resistance. This includes analyses of the changing urban political economy and class and everyday life in neighbourhoods and cities. My research offers conjunctural analyses of gentrification, evictions, and large-scale sporting events (Commonwealth Games 2014) and their impacts on working-class communities, with a strong focus on local community resistance and counter-hegemonic movements.

Research groups

Publications

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2026

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2026) Breaking down the walls of Partick: tracing cycles of urban neoliberalism and resistance. In: Bates, Charlotte and Jackson, Emma (eds.) Walking: A sociological field guide. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526184917 (In Press)

2025

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 and Jackson, Emma (2025) Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: the roots and conjuncture of Live Methods. Sociological Review, 73(5), pp. 941-952. (doi: 10.1177/00380261251335432)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2025) Book symposium: Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations. Sociological Review, 73(3), pp. 714-715. (doi: 10.1177/00380261251335151)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2025) Introduction to Special Section: Palestine: A Sociological Issue. Sociological Review, 73(2), pp. 237-240. (doi: 10.1177/00380261251321332)

2023

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2023) Class and Everyday Life. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138927353 (doi: 10.4324/9781315682716/) (In Press)

2021

Cooper, Vickie and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2021) Accumulation by repossession: the political economy of evictions under austerity. Urban Geography, 42(5), pp. 583-602. (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2019.1659695)

2018

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2018) Beyond legacy: Backstage stigmatisation and ‘trickle-up’ politics of urban regeneration. Sociological Review, 66(4), pp. 919-934. (doi: 10.1177/0038026118777449)

2017

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427, McCall, Vikki and Mooney, Gerry (2017) Place revisited: class, stigma and urban restructuring in the case of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games. Sociological Review, 65(4), pp. 578-594. (doi: 10.1111/1467-954x.12423)

Cooper, Vickie and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2017) The new urban frontier of everyday evictions: contemporary state practices of revanchism. In: Albet, Abel and Benach, Núria (eds.) Gentrification as a Global Strategy: Neil Smith and Beyond. Routledge, pp. 142-150. ISBN 9781138234253 (doi: 10.4324/9781315307510-12)

2016

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 and Cooper, Vickie (2016) It's the state, stupid: 21st gentrification and state-led evictions. Sociological Research Online, 21(3), pp. 134-140. (doi: 10.5153/sro.4064)

Monaghan, Mark, Hamilton, Ian, Lloyd, Charlie and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2016) Cannabis matters? Treatment responses to increasing cannabis presentations in addiction services in England. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 23(1), pp. 54-61. (doi: 10.3109/09687637.2015.1090398)

2015

Mooney, Gerry, McCall, Vikki and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2015) Exploring the use of large sporting events in the post-crash, post-welfare city: a ‘legacy’ of increasing insecurity? Local Economy, 30(8), pp. 910-924. (doi: 10.1177/0269094215602201)

2014

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2014) Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective. Routledge, pp. 1-223. ISBN 9781472418500

Hamilton, Ian, Lloyd, Charlie, Monaghan, Mark and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2014) The emerging cannabis treatment population. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 14(3), pp. 150-153. (doi: 10.1108/DAT-01-2014-0005)

2013

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2013) HSA special issue: housing in “hard times”: marginality, inequality and class. Housing, Theory and Society, 30(1), pp. 84-100. (doi: 10.1080/14036096.2012.683296)

2012

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427, Mooney, G. and McKee, K. (2012) Class, citizenship and regeneration: Glasgow and the Commonwealth Games 2014. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 44(4), pp. 1470-1489. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00966.x)

2011

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2011) Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research. In: Bridge, Gary, Butler, Tim and Lees, Loretta (eds.) Mixed Communities: Gentrification By Stealth? Policy Press, pp. 251-271. ISBN 9781847424938 (doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781847424938.003.0016)

2010

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2010) Creating the neo-liberal city and citizen: Use of gentrification as urban policy in Glasgow. In: Davidson, N., McCafferty, P. and Miller, D. (eds.) Neo-Liberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 1443816752

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2010) Making working-class neighbourhoods posh? Exploring the effects of gentrification strategies on working-class communities. In: Taylor, Y. (ed.) Classed Intersections : Spaces, Selves, Knowledges. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 137-158. ISBN 9780754675624

2009

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2009) Probing the symptomatic silences of middle-class settlement: a case study of gentrification processes in Glasgow. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 13(4), p. 432. (doi: 10.1080/13604810903298524)

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Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections
Number of items: 20.

Articles

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 and Jackson, Emma (2025) Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: the roots and conjuncture of Live Methods. Sociological Review, 73(5), pp. 941-952. (doi: 10.1177/00380261251335432)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2025) Book symposium: Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations. Sociological Review, 73(3), pp. 714-715. (doi: 10.1177/00380261251335151)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2025) Introduction to Special Section: Palestine: A Sociological Issue. Sociological Review, 73(2), pp. 237-240. (doi: 10.1177/00380261251321332)

Cooper, Vickie and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2021) Accumulation by repossession: the political economy of evictions under austerity. Urban Geography, 42(5), pp. 583-602. (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2019.1659695)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2018) Beyond legacy: Backstage stigmatisation and ‘trickle-up’ politics of urban regeneration. Sociological Review, 66(4), pp. 919-934. (doi: 10.1177/0038026118777449)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427, McCall, Vikki and Mooney, Gerry (2017) Place revisited: class, stigma and urban restructuring in the case of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games. Sociological Review, 65(4), pp. 578-594. (doi: 10.1111/1467-954x.12423)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 and Cooper, Vickie (2016) It's the state, stupid: 21st gentrification and state-led evictions. Sociological Research Online, 21(3), pp. 134-140. (doi: 10.5153/sro.4064)

Monaghan, Mark, Hamilton, Ian, Lloyd, Charlie and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2016) Cannabis matters? Treatment responses to increasing cannabis presentations in addiction services in England. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 23(1), pp. 54-61. (doi: 10.3109/09687637.2015.1090398)

Mooney, Gerry, McCall, Vikki and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2015) Exploring the use of large sporting events in the post-crash, post-welfare city: a ‘legacy’ of increasing insecurity? Local Economy, 30(8), pp. 910-924. (doi: 10.1177/0269094215602201)

Hamilton, Ian, Lloyd, Charlie, Monaghan, Mark and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2014) The emerging cannabis treatment population. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 14(3), pp. 150-153. (doi: 10.1108/DAT-01-2014-0005)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2013) HSA special issue: housing in “hard times”: marginality, inequality and class. Housing, Theory and Society, 30(1), pp. 84-100. (doi: 10.1080/14036096.2012.683296)

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427, Mooney, G. and McKee, K. (2012) Class, citizenship and regeneration: Glasgow and the Commonwealth Games 2014. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 44(4), pp. 1470-1489. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00966.x)

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2009) Probing the symptomatic silences of middle-class settlement: a case study of gentrification processes in Glasgow. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 13(4), p. 432. (doi: 10.1080/13604810903298524)

Books

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2023) Class and Everyday Life. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138927353 (doi: 10.4324/9781315682716/) (In Press)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2014) Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective. Routledge, pp. 1-223. ISBN 9781472418500

Book Sections

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2026) Breaking down the walls of Partick: tracing cycles of urban neoliberalism and resistance. In: Bates, Charlotte and Jackson, Emma (eds.) Walking: A sociological field guide. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526184917 (In Press)

Cooper, Vickie and Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2017) The new urban frontier of everyday evictions: contemporary state practices of revanchism. In: Albet, Abel and Benach, Núria (eds.) Gentrification as a Global Strategy: Neil Smith and Beyond. Routledge, pp. 142-150. ISBN 9781138234253 (doi: 10.4324/9781315307510-12)

Paton, Kirsteen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2011) Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research. In: Bridge, Gary, Butler, Tim and Lees, Loretta (eds.) Mixed Communities: Gentrification By Stealth? Policy Press, pp. 251-271. ISBN 9781847424938 (doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781847424938.003.0016)

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2010) Creating the neo-liberal city and citizen: Use of gentrification as urban policy in Glasgow. In: Davidson, N., McCafferty, P. and Miller, D. (eds.) Neo-Liberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 1443816752

Paton, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-7427 (2010) Making working-class neighbourhoods posh? Exploring the effects of gentrification strategies on working-class communities. In: Taylor, Y. (ed.) Classed Intersections : Spaces, Selves, Knowledges. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 137-158. ISBN 9780754675624

This list was generated on Thu Mar 5 20:34:47 2026 GMT.

Supervision

I am currently supervising

Terry Hill (ESRC, University of Glasgow)

Meg Bishop (University of Edinburgh)

  • Brewerton-Harper, Dylan
    'Comparing Working-Class Cultural Responses to Deindustrialisation in Glasgow and Leipzig'

 

Completed PhD supervision

Abi O'Connor (ESRC, University of Liverpool) 

Emma Bimpson (ESRC, White Rose, University of Leeds)

Michael Simon (University of Liverpool)

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2025: Visiting Research Fellow (University of Gothenburg)
  • 2019: Award for Outstanding Scholarship (The Sociological Review)

Research fellowships

  • 2025 - 2026: Royal Society of Edinburgh / Scottish Executive Personal Research Fellowship

Editorial boards

  • 2021: The Sociological Review

Professional & learned societies

  • 2017 - 2019: Cities and Mobilities Study Group Convenor, British Sociological Association

Selected international presentations

  • 2025: Keynote: Class, City and Everyday Life (Institute for Urban Research, University of Malmo, Sweden)
  • 2019: Nordic Geographers Meeting, conference paper:‘Rent Cap, Revanchism and Living in the Gap’ (Trondheim, Norway)
  • 2016: Invited Talk: ‘Everyday Evictions in the 21st Century’, (University of Limerick, Ireland)
  • 2016: Invited Urban Public Lecture: Gentrification in the post-crash city: austerity, stigma and evictions’ (Erasmus University College, Rotterdam)
  • 2015: Espais Critics: ‘The new urban frontier everyday evictions: contemporary state practices of revanchism’ (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain)
  • 2014: ESA RN37 Urban Sociology:‘Private Spaces/Public Lives: Performing neoliberal value as the new urban frontier? Keynote: Private Spaces/Public Lives: Performing neoliberal value as the new urban frontier? (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 2014: Invited Public Lecture: ‘Living with Gentrification: A working-class perspective’, (Göteborgs Stadsmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Supplementary

  • 2026 Editorial Board Member, The Sociological Review 2023 Deputy Editor-In-Chief, The Sociological Review 2021 General Editor, The Sociological Review 2019- Trustee and Secretary, Interchange Charity https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/interchange/about/ 2017 Senior Fellowship, AdvancedHE Academy.

Dr Kirsteen Paton on Bluesky