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Knowledge and inequality in the city

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Location: R0.03/4

Professor Fran Tonkiss, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Politics.

The lecture will consider knowledge as both a competitive and common resource in contemporary cities, and explores the ways in which inequalities are shaped in relation to knowledge and information in urban environments.
 
Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology, and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology. As an expert in urban sociology, her research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban development and design, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006). She is the co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey). She is currently managing editor of Economy and Society; she was previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology, and remains a member of the editorial board.
 
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