Tom SlaterTom Slater is Reader in Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He has research interests in the institutional arrangements producing and reinforcing urban inequalities, and in the ways in which marginalised urban dwellers organise against inustices visited upon them. He has written extensively on gentrification (notably the co-authored Gentrification, 2008 and the co-edited The Gentrification Reader, 2010), displacement from urban space, territorial stigmatisation, welfare reform, and social movements for housing justice. He is currently co-editing (with Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University) a major book entitled The Sociology of Stigma (Blackwell). He has edited 6 special issues of major international journals on these research themes, and since 2010 he has delivered lectures in 18 different countries on these issues. His work has been translated into 8 different languages and circulates widely to inform struggles for urban social justice. Read More Read Less