Studying the institutionalisation of urban studies: Fragmentation, the place of disciplines, organisational form

Abstract

In my original paper for Dialogues in Urban Research, I mapped the publication output of a set of multi-disciplinary urban studies centres across the world. The aim was to provide first insights into the (uneven) geographies of urban knowledge production and circulation. In this reply to the five commentaries on my paper, I will develop three observations in some more detail: urban studies as a fragmented field of research, urban studies as a place-based articulation of multiple disciplines and urban studies centres as a contested organisational form within university hierarchies.