Tom Slater on UK cities
Tom's top recommendations for reading about poverty, marginality, ethnic segregation and stigmatisation in UK cities are:
A considerable amount of Tom's own work on UK marginalisation and urban poverty is available to download from his personal webpage. Please click here if you wish to find out more.
- Finney, N. and Simpson, L. (2009) Sleepwalking to Segregation: Challenging Myths About Race and Migration. Bristol: Policy Press
- Hastings, A. and Dean, J. (2003) "Challenging images: tackling stigma through estate regeneration." Policy & Politics 31 (2) pp171-184
- Lupton, R. (2003) Poverty Street: The Dynamics of Neighbourhood Decline and Renewal (Bristol: Policy Press)
- Mooney, G. (2009) "The ‘Broken Society’ Election: Class Hatred and the Politics of Poverty and Place in Glasgow East." Social Policy and Society 8 (4) pp.437-450
- Peach, C. (1996) "Does Britain have ghettos?", Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 21 (1) pp216-235
- Peach, C. (2009) "Slippery segregation: discovering or manufacturing ghettos?", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35 (9) pp1381-1395
- Phillips, D. (2006) "Parallel lives? Challenging discourses of British Muslim self-segregation." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(1) pp25-40
- Simpson, L. (2007) "Ghettos of the mind: the empirical behaviour of indices of segregation and diversity." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 170, Part 2, pp405-424
- Watt, P. (2006) "Respectability, roughness and ‘race’: neighbourhood place images and the making of working-class social distinctions in London." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(4) pp776-797
- Watt, P. (2008) "‘Underclass’ and ‘ordinary people’ discourses: representing/re-presenting council tenants in a housing campaign." Critical Discourse Studies 5(3) pp345-357
A considerable amount of Tom's own work on UK marginalisation and urban poverty is available to download from his personal webpage. Please click here if you wish to find out more.