About the Book
Tom Slater is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Shaking Up the City
Ignorance
Price: $29.95 / £25.00
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 258
ISBN: 9780520386228
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 8 photos
About the Author
and the Urban Question
Table of Contents
"A powerful, sobering wake-up call that demonstrates how policy-driven approaches to urban research—supported by think tanks, philanthrocapitalists, state elites, and big business—have led urban scholarship down a perilous path for more than three decades. Essential reading for anyone interested in tackling rampant inequality, epistemic violence, and social injustice."—Tanja Winkler, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town
"A fierce, unflinching polemic against the extraction and alienation that create both urban injustices and the damaging cultures of orthodoxy so prevalent in urban scholarship today. Tom Slater’s incisive analysis demonstrates with sparkling clarity how words make worlds and silence is powerful. This brave book can steel our collective resolve to refuse the subordination of knowledge, and urban life itself, to political and economic profiteering."—Libby Porter, Professor at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne
"A brilliant critique of contemporary urban injustices and a powerful call for a more critically reflexive approach to urban social science. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with superseding mainstream ideologies of urban renewal and developing modes of analysis to facilitate the pursuit of more democratic, equitable urban futures."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago
“Completes and expands the legacy of what we can consider, now, as classic research in the general field of urban studies."—Virgílio Borges Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Porto
"A fierce, unflinching polemic against the extraction and alienation that create both urban injustices and the damaging cultures of orthodoxy so prevalent in urban scholarship today. Tom Slater’s incisive analysis demonstrates with sparkling clarity how words make worlds and silence is powerful. This brave book can steel our collective resolve to refuse the subordination of knowledge, and urban life itself, to political and economic profiteering."—Libby Porter, Professor at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne
"A brilliant critique of contemporary urban injustices and a powerful call for a more critically reflexive approach to urban social science. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with superseding mainstream ideologies of urban renewal and developing modes of analysis to facilitate the pursuit of more democratic, equitable urban futures."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago
“Completes and expands the legacy of what we can consider, now, as classic research in the general field of urban studies."—Virgílio Borges Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Porto
Reviews
— Ethnic and Racial Studies"Slater’s broad approach and global lens grant this book great potential to help scholars, especially younger ones, to rethink the logic behind research questions and approaches."
— Urban Studies"Sitting down with Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question is like pulling up a chair with Tom Slater to talk about the state of play of urban studies. . . .Yet the highlight of this work is the intellectual contribution, which I see as holding the idea of epistemology – that is, the production of knowledge – and the idea of agnotology – that is, the production of ignorance – in tension with each other."
— Antipode"Shaking Up the City sets a new direction of critical urban geography."
— Journal of the American Planning Association"Slater offers important insight for urban scholars and practitioners by showing how ideology, politics, and institutional arrangements interact to narrow urban policy choice sets."
"A detailed and very well-written account of several important concepts in critical urban theory."— Housing Studies
"A powerful, sobering wake-up call that demonstrates how policy-driven approaches to urban research—supported by think tanks, philanthrocapitalists, state elites, and big business—have led urban scholarship down a perilous path for more than three decades. Essential reading for anyone interested in tackling rampant inequality, epistemic violence, and social injustice."—Tanja Winkler, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town
"A fierce, unflinching polemic against the extraction and alienation that create both urban injustices and the damaging cultures of orthodoxy so prevalent in urban scholarship today. Tom Slater’s incisive analysis demonstrates with sparkling clarity how words make worlds and silence is powerful. This brave book can steel our collective resolve to refuse the subordination of knowledge, and urban life itself, to political and economic profiteering."—Libby Porter, Professor at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne
"A brilliant critique of contemporary urban injustices and a powerful call for a more critically reflexive approach to urban social science. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with superseding mainstream ideologies of urban renewal and developing modes of analysis to facilitate the pursuit of more democratic, equitable urban futures."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago
“Completes and expands the legacy of what we can consider, now, as classic research in the general field of urban studies."—Virgílio Borges Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Porto
"A fierce, unflinching polemic against the extraction and alienation that create both urban injustices and the damaging cultures of orthodoxy so prevalent in urban scholarship today. Tom Slater’s incisive analysis demonstrates with sparkling clarity how words make worlds and silence is powerful. This brave book can steel our collective resolve to refuse the subordination of knowledge, and urban life itself, to political and economic profiteering."—Libby Porter, Professor at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne
"A brilliant critique of contemporary urban injustices and a powerful call for a more critically reflexive approach to urban social science. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with superseding mainstream ideologies of urban renewal and developing modes of analysis to facilitate the pursuit of more democratic, equitable urban futures."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago
“Completes and expands the legacy of what we can consider, now, as classic research in the general field of urban studies."—Virgílio Borges Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Porto