"Urban Geography, Relevance, and Resistance to the "Policy Turn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Imrie (0000-0001-9866-6895, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 697-708 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2747/0272-3638.25.8.697 |
| OpenAlex | W2005518991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 35 |
Disquiet about urban geography's alleged lack of policy substance and practical relevance has resurfaced in a range of recent writings. While useful, much of the debate tends to "blame the victim," in this instance, urban geography and geographers, for the inability to generate research of relevance and interest to policy. As the paper will argue, urban geography and geographers are not "free-floating" or able to determine, without constraint, the relevance of urban geographical research to the production of public policy. Urban geographers, and geographers more generally, are, therefore, advised to resist aspects of the "new turn" to policy and practice
Blame · Constraint (computer-aided design · Economic geography · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Inequality · Political science · Relevance (law · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Urban geography · Urban planning · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning
Research relevance, ‘knowledge transfer’ and the geographies of Case studentship collaboration
Policy geographies revisited
Research training and the end(s) of the Ph.D
Sense and the city
Going bust two ways? Epistemic communities and the study of urban policy failure
Ghetto Blasting
Urban and Regional Horizons
Conceptual Vectors of African Urbanism
Applied policy research and critical human geography
Getting ‘Out There’ and Impacting
Spatial thinking and policymaking in the UK
The spatialities of actually existing neoliberalism in glasgow, 1977 to present
Recovering the politics of the city
Un-ethical review? Why it is wrong to apply the medical model of research governance to human geography
Social geography
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing
Relevance, Gentrification and the Development of a New Hegemony on Urban Policies in Antwerp, Belgium
Applied Geography and Ethics in Spatial Planning
If geography is anything, maybe it's planning's alter ego? Reflections on policy relevance in two disciplines concerned with place and space
Geographical knowledge and policy
Iterative parallelism as research praxis
Arguments in Health Geography
Legal geography, geography, and the research-policy nexus
The Promises of Collaborative Research
Participatory Geographies
Education and employment
What works?Evidence-based policy and practice in public services
Making Social Science Matter
Islands of decay in seas of renewal
Cultural justice and addressing ‘social exclusion’
Welfare policy
The Use and Abuse of Social Science
Policy Evaluation and Learning
If Only We Knew
Geographies of the agenda
Geography and public policy
Let's Have More Policy Analysis
Have We Lost a Generation of Urban Geographers
The Chicago School in Retrospect and Prospect
Challenges and Opportunities
If Only We Knew
Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance
Geography and Public Policy
What Kind of Geography for What Kind of Public Policy
Assessing the discourses and practices of urban regeneration in a growing region
Contemporary human geography
Evaluation, Policy Learning and Evidence-Based Policy Making
Transforming the Social Relations of Research Production in Urban Policy Evaluation
Policy (Re)Turns
The Uses of Relevance
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |