Tom Slater
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh, 2008-
Lecturer in Urban Studies, University of Bristol, 2003-2008
Ph.D., King's College London, 2003
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Urban Studies, University of Bristol, 2003-2008
Ph.D., King's College London, 2003
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk
Intellectual Profile
I'm
an urban geographer. After being displaced from the south London
neighbourhood of Tooting in 1998 by a landlord capitalizing on a
gentrifying neighbourhood, I decided to conduct PhD research (1999-2003)
on gentrification, based at King's College London. From there I went to
my first academic post at the University of Bristol (2003-2008), where I
developed a love of teaching, and intellectual concerns with troubling
phrases such as "policy relevance", "evidence base" and "end users".
My current work is animated by the need to reinstate critical perspectives on urban processes, at a time when social justice concerns are being suppressed by the growing subservience of urban scholarship to the concerns, categories and moods of the neoliberal state.
My current work is animated by the need to reinstate critical perspectives on urban processes, at a time when social justice concerns are being suppressed by the growing subservience of urban scholarship to the concerns, categories and moods of the neoliberal state.
Research Interests
Gentrification
and displacement, with a focus on the experiences and fate of displaced
persons; Urban inequality and marginality; Territorial stigmatization
and "reputational ghettos".
Key Publications
NEW! 'Manufacturing Ignorance: the Centre for Social Justice and Welfare Reform in Britain'
See my homepage where most of my writings are downloadable: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/tslater
Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. (2008) Gentrification (New York: Routledge).
Slater, T. (2006) "The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 (4) p.737-757. See IJURR 32 (1) for a symposium on this piece.
Slater, T. (2004) "Municipally-managed gentrification in South Parkdale, Toronto", The Canadian Geographer 48 (3) p.303-325.
