"A powerful, sobering wake-up call that demonstrates how policy-driven approaches to urban research--supported by think tanks, philanthrocapitalists, state elites, and big business--have led urban scholarship down a perilous path for more than three decades. Essential reading for anyone interested in tackling rampant inequality, epistemic violence, and social injustice."--Tanja Winkler, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town
"A fierce, unflinching polemic against the extraction and alienation that create both urban injustices and the damaging cultures of orthodoxy so prevalent in urban scholarship today. Tom Slater's incisive analysis demonstrates with sparkling clarity how words make worlds and silence is powerful. This brave book can steel our collective resolve to refuse the subordination of knowledge, and urban life itself, to political and economic profiteering."--Libby Porter, Professor at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University,
