advanced studies in urban cultures

Schedule & required readings

JAN 9 - INTRODUCTION

Mini lecture
"Space and culture in motion"

JAN 16 - MOBILITIES

Mini lecture
"Local and global flows"

Readings
John Urry, Sociology Beyond Societies (selections)

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (selections)

JAN 23 - COMMUNITIES

Mini lecture
"Belonging"

Readings
Catherine Kellogg, “Love and Communism: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Shattered Community,” Law and Critique 16(3) 2005, pp. 339-355.

René ten Bos, “Giorgio Agamben and the community without identity”, Sociological Review 53(1), 2005, pp. 16-29.

JAN 30 - CITIZENSHIPS

Mini lecture
"Nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism"

Readings
Nick Stevenson, "Cultural Citizenship in the 'Cultural' Society: A Cosmopolitan Approach". Citizenship Studies 7(3)2003: 331-348.

Brett Bowden, "The Perils of Global Citizenship". Citizenship Studies 7(3)2003: 349-362.

FEB 6 - CONTROLS

Mini lecture
"Cities, terror and disaster"

Readings
Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen , "Zones of Indistinction: Security, Terror, and Bare Life". Space & Culture 2002, vol. 5 (3): 290-307.

David Lyon, Surveillance After September 11 (selections)

John Manzo, “Social Control and the Management of ‘Personal’ Space in Shopping Malls”, Space and Culture, 2005, 8(1): 83-97.

FEB 13 - TECHNOLOGIES

Mini lecture
“Urban networks”

Readings
Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, "The City as Sociotechnical Process" in Splintering Urbanism

Manuel Castells, "Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age" in The Cybercities Reader

Nigel Thrift, “Cities Without Modernity, Cites With Magic” in The Cybercities Reader

NO CLASSES — Feb 20-24 — Winter Break

FEB 27 - CITIES & SUBURBS

Mini lecture
"Inner cities and urban sprawl"

Readings
Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia (selections)

Mike Davis, City of Quartz and Dead Cities (selections)

Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity (selections)

RESEARCH PAPERS DUE

MAR 6 - LIVING ON THE MARGIN

Mini lecture
"Ghettos, slums and refugee camps"

Readings
Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities (selections)

Bülent Diken, "From refugee camps to gated communities: biopolitics and the end of the city" Citizenship Studies 8(1)2004:83-106.

MAR 13 - LIVING IN-BETWEEN

Mini lecture
"Moving through the city"

Readings
Mimi Sheller and John Urry, "The City and the Car". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(4) 2000:737-757.

Mitchell Schwarzer, Zoomscape (selections)

Sarah Treadwell, “The Motel: And Image of Elsewhere", Space and Culture 2005, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.214-224.

MAR 20 - THE URBAN AS COSMOPOLIS

Mini lecture
"Organising difference"

Readings
Mica Nava, "Cosmopolitan Modernity: Everyday Imaginaries and the Register of Difference". Theory, Culture & Society 2002, Vol. 19(1–2): 81–99.

Verena Andermatt Conley, "Chaosmopolis". Theory, Culture & Society 2002, Vol. 19(1–2): 127–138

Terhi Rantanen, "Cosmopolitanization – now!: An interview with Ulrich Beck”, Global Media and Communication, 2005 1(3): 247-263.

MAR 27 - THE URBAN AS TECHNOPOLIS

Mini lecture
"The wired and wireless city"

Readings
Martin Hand and Barry Sandywell, "E-topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, Toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism". Theory, Culture & Society 2002, Vol. 19(1–2): 197-225.

Anthony Townsend, "Mobile Communications in the Twenty-first Century City", in Wireless World

Federico Casalegno, “Thoughts on the Convergence of Digital Media, Memory, and Social and Urban Spaces”, Space and Culture, 2004 7(3): 313-326.

APR 3 - FUTURE URBANISM

Group discussion and/or film

INVISIBLE CITIES PROJECT DUE

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