Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Faculty

James DeFilippis , Ph.D.
Associate Professor
B.A. University of Vermont; M.A., and Ph.D. Rutgers University

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 365

Phone (732) 932-3822, x734

Fax (732) 932-2253

E-mail: jdefilip@rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Urban political economy and political philosophy
  • Relationships between housing, neighborhoods and states
  • Community development theory and practice
  • Growth and proliferation of unregulated work

 

Courses

  • Introduction to Planning, Policy and Health
  • History and Theory of Planning
  • Principles of Housing
  • US Housing Policy

 

Recent Publications and Activities

  • DeFilippis, James, Fisher, Robert and Eric Shragge. Contesting Community. Under contract with Rutgers University Press. To be completed in April 2009.
  • Wyly, Elvin and James DeFilippis (forthcoming, 2009). "Mapping public housing: the case of New York City." City and Community
  • DeFilippis, James, Martin, Nina, Bernhardt, Annette and Siobhán McGrath. 2009. "On the Characteristics and Organization of Unregulated Work in American Cities." Urban Geography. 30(1): 63-90.
  • DeFilippis, James, Fisher, Robert and Eric Shragge. 2009. "What’s Left in the Community?" Community Development Journal. 44(1): 38-52.
  • McGrath, Siobhán and James DeFilippis. 2009. "Social Reproduction as Unregulated Work." Work, Employment, and Society. 23(1): 66–83.
  • DeFilippis, James. 2008. "Paradoxes of community-building: community control in the global economy." International Social Science Journal. 192: 223-234.
  • Bernhardt, Annette, Siobhan McGrath and James DeFilippis. 2008. "The State of Worker Protections in the U.S.: Unregulated Work in New York City." International Labor Review. 147(2/3): 135-162.
  • DeFilippis, James and Elvin Wyly. 2008. "Running to Stand Still: Through the Looking Glass with Federally Subsidized Housing in New York City." Urban Affairs Review. 43(6): 777-816.
  • DeFilippis, James and Susan Saegert (eds.). (2007) The Community Development Reader. New York: Routledge
  • DeFilippis, James. 2007. "Erasing the Community In Order To Save It? Reconstructing Community and Property in Community Development. in Harris Beider (ed.) Housing, Neighbourhood Renewal and Community Engagement. pp. 271-289. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • DeFilippis, James, Robert Fisher, and Eric Shragge. 2006. "Neither Romance nor Regulation: Re- evaluating Community." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 30(3): 673-689.
  • DeFilippis, James. 2005. On the Potential of Local Political Projects: A Response to Lake, Martin, and Wilson. Urban Geography. 26(4): 293-295.
  • DeFilippis, James. 2004. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York: Routledge. Winner of the American Political Science Association’s Urban Politics Section “Best Book in Urban Politics 2004”

 

Profile

James DeFilippis' research work consistently makes connections; linking disciplines and connecting academic theory and grounded political practice. He has published work in academic journals in a variety of fields, both independently and in collaboration with other authors. Professor DeFilippis has also written applied monographs and reports, and his interests extend well beyond the academy and into the practice of concrete political work and policy analyses. His research has been both empirical and theoretical, and has involved quantitative and qualitative methodologies. As a policy analyst, Professor DeFilippis has worked extensively with a variety of organizations ranging from community development credit unions to Alinsky-inspired groups to broad-based housing coalitions. 

 

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