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Anthropology of Planetary Urbanization
Dr. Kacper Pobłocki
Summer 2014
Anthropology Department
Room 514, 17.00-20.000
Session 1 – Introduction to planetary urbanization (17.03)
No readings assigned
Session 2 - Learning from the South (31.03)
Frederic Jameson, Future City, New Left Review, nr 21 (2003)
Andy Merrifield, The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization, IJURR,
Mike Davis Fear and Money in Dubai, New Left Review
Session 3 - Absolute, relative and relational spaces (14.04)
Laurent Fourchard, Lagos, Koolhaas and Partisan Politics in Nigeria, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 35, Issue 1, pages 40–56, January 2011
Marcus Power, Angola 2025: The Future of the “World's Richest Poor Country” as Seen through a Chinese Rear-View Mirror, Antipode, Volume 44, Issue 3, pages 993–1014, June 2012
AbdouMaliq Simone, Pirate Towns: Reworking Social and Symbolic Infrastructures in Johannesburg and Douala. Urban Studies. February 2006 vol. 43 no. 2 357-370
Session 4. Urban 'Spatial Fixes' (28.04)
David Harvey – The Enigma of Capital (chapters 1,2,3,4, pp. 166-209)
Benjamin Kunkel, How Much is too Much?
Session 5. The Right to the City (12.05)
James Holston, Insurgent Citizenship (chapters 1 and 7)
David Harvey, The Right to the City, New Left Review, Vol. 53, September-October 2008, http://newleftreview.org/II/53/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city
Margit Mayer, The 'Right to the City' in Urban Social Movements; in Mayer, Brenner, Marcuse (eds.) Cities for People, Not for Profit,
Session 6. Rescaling the Urban and the Global (26.05)
Asef Bayat, Tehran – a Paradox City, New Left Review, November-December 2010
Roger Keil, Rianne Mahon, Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale (Introduction)
Bach, Jonathan. „They Come in Peasants and Leave Citizens": Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen, China. Cultural Anthropology 25, no. 3 (2010): 421-458.
Session 7. Urban futures – post-capitalism or an apocalypse? (2.06)
Neil Smith, The Revolutionary Imperative, Antipode, Volume 41, Issue Supplement s1, pages 50–65, January 2010
Mike Davis, Who Will Build the Arc?, New Left Review, Vol. 61, January-February 2010.
Jennifer Robinson, Cities in the World of Cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 35, Issue 1, pages 1–23, January 2011
Session 8. In-between urbanism (9.06)
Thomas Sieverts, Cities witout Cities: An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, London: Routledge, 2003.
Shlomo Angel, Arterial Grid of Dirt Roads, Cities 25 (3), June 2008, p. 146-162
Assessment:
The final grade will be calculated on the basis of attendance and participation in class discussions (50%), one presentation of assigned readings (50%).
Readings for can be downloaded here:
http://goo.gl/b3AZ7U
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