
אבנר דה-שליט, אבנר דה שליט, avner de-shalit, avner de shalit, civicism, human rights, democracy, environmental politics, equality, socialism, urban politics, political science, political philosophy, political theory,
Most of my publications are in English, although Hebrew speakers might enjoy my books Socialism (Misrad Habita’chon publications) and Red-Green (Adom Yarok, Babel publications). I like reading both academic papers and academic books but when it comes to writing - it seems to me that I have enjoyed writing books much more. In particular I enjoyed writing some of my recent books with two great friends, Jo Wolff (Disadvantage, OUP; CIty of Equals, OUP) and Daniel Bell (The Spirit of Cities, PUP).
I have recently finished two research projects:
1. How should inequality in the city be measured?
This is another joint project with Jonathan Wolff (Oxford University) and it addresses methodological and philosophical issues of constructing an index for measuring inequality in cities. The book (City of Equals, OUP) can be downloaded for free from Oxford UP.
2. Artists and the city.
This is a joint research project with Volker Kirchberg (Leuphana University), Nir Barak (Ben Gurion University), Merav Kadar (Erasmus University Rotterdam). We studied various models of ways in which artists try to make social and political impact in the city where they live. A comparative study in Hamburg, Hanover, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.