Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis

Zusatztext

Provides a specific focus on class and ethnicity as elements of urban marginality and demonstrates the importance of a spatial understanding of these processes.  Provides critical engagement with Loic Wacquants work challenging them and developing them in innovative and ground-breaking ways Takes a genuinely international and interdisciplinary approach, utilising a range of national and policy contexts and combining robust empirical data with new theoretical and conceptual frameworks Includes contributions from both established and emerging leading urban scholars at the cutting edge of urban studies

Autorenportrait

John Flint is Professor of Town and Regional Planning and Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was previously Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK. Ryan Powell is Reader in Urban Studies in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK, with research interests in the broad areas of urban marginality, urban governance and the stigmatisation of outsider groups.  His academic background and orientation is multidisciplinary and cuts across urban studies, sociology, geography, politics and criminology.  

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