Tom Slater is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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. * Ethnic and Racial 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. * Urban Studies *