Richard Tardanico

Richard Tardanico

Associate Professor

Global and Sociocultural Studies


Office: SIPA 1, 312

Phone: 305.348.3344

Email: richard.tardanico@fiu.edu

Selected Publications

Tardanico, R. (2025) Mega-real estate speculation and racialized dispossession: Miami’s Little Haiti. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 49(1), 21-38.   https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13283

Tardanico, R. (2024) Fractured mobilization: Miami’s Little Haiti confronts mega-real estate speculation. Critical Housing Analysis 11(1), 127-136 (special issue “Social movements against housing financialization”). https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2024.11.1.570 

Tardanico, R. & Oslender, U. (2021) Dividing a city: Real estate mega-speculation and contention in Miami, Florida.  ASTRÁGALO. Cultura de la Arquitectura y de la Ciudad 1(29), 103-119 (special issue “Divided cities”).  https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2021.i29.05

Areas of Expertise

Local/global inequalities, struggles, and transformations

Urban and regional political economy

Households/communities confronting precarity and dispossession

Latin America, Caribbean, and Miami

Degrees

Ph.D., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, 1979

A.B., Psychology, University of California at Berkeley,1972

San Diego Mesa Community College, 1968-1970