IMAGINING CITIES AFTER SOCIETY
January 28
First day of class.
February 4
Reading:
Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, chaps. 1-2, 4-5.
URBAN INEQUALITIES AND (IM)MOBILITIES
February 11
Readings:
Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, chap. 3, 6.
Richard Florida, pp. 79-125 in Who's Your City? Basic Books, 2008.
SOCIETY-CENTERED URBANISM
February 18
Baynard Bailey demonstrates Moodle wiki in first 10 minutes of class.
Readings:
Robert E. Park, "The Mind of the Hobo: Reflections upon the Relation between Mentality and Locomotion." Pp. 156-160 in The City, edited by R.E. Park and E.W. Burgess. University of Chicago Press, 1925.
Jackson Toby, "Parsons' Theory of Societal Evolution." Pp. 1-23 in The Evolution of Societies, edited by J. Toby. Prentice-Hall, 1977.
L.S. Bourne, "Urban Systems: Concepts and Empirical Background." Pp. 11-39 in Urban Systems: Strategies for Regulation. Clarendon Press, 1975.
Neil Brenner, "Beyond State-Centrism? Space, Territoriality, and Geographical Scale in Globalization Studies." Theory and Society 28 (1999): 39-78.
STUDENTS CHOICE OF READING
February 25
First collaborative memo due.
Readings to be determined.
March 4
Readings:
Ulrich Beck and Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim, "Losing the Traditional: Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms'." Pp. 1-21 in Individualization. Sage, 2002.
Anthony Elliott and John Urry, "Mobile Lives: A Step Too Far?" and "The Globals and Their Mobilities." Pp. 1-23, 65-83 in Mobile Lives. Routledge, 2010.
Zygmunt Bauman, "Out of Touch Together." Pp. 71-93 in Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Polity, 2007.
March 9-24: SPRING BREAK
LIFESTYLE DESTINATIONS: BUENOS AIRES
March 25
Readings:
Michaela Benson and Karen O'Reilly, "Migration and the Search for a Better Life: A Critical Exploration of Lifestyle Migration." Sociological Review 54 (2009): 608-25.
Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, pp. 45-54.
Tim Ferriss, "How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires..."
Arlene Dávila, "Tango Tourism and the Political Economy of Space" and "Urban/Creative Expats: Outsourcing Lives in Buenos Aires." Pp. 135-88 in Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility across the Neoliberal Americas. NYU Press, 2012.
DIASPORA: THE "OVERSEAS CHINESE"
April 1
Readings:
Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, pp. 71-76.
Lawrence J.C. Ma, "Space, Place, and Transnationalism in the Chinese Diaspora." Pp. 1-49 in The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity, edited by L.J.C. Ma and C. Cartier. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Aihwa Ong, "The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits." Pp. 110-136 in Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke University Press, 1999.
Maggi W.H. Leung, "Rethinking 'Home' in Diaspora: A Family Transnationalized? A Place of Nostalgia? A Commodity for Sale?" Pp. 210-233 in Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China, edited by M. Thune. NIAS Press, 2006.
STUDENTS CHOICE OF READING
April 8
Second collaborative memo due.
Readings to be determined.
URBAN NETWORKS: GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE IN ASIAN CITIES
April 15
1-page term paper proposal due.
Readings:
Zachary P. Neal, "Global: Nylon Holds the World Together." Pp. 147-66 in The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis. Routledge, 2013.
Xuefei Ren, "Transnational Architectural Production: Firms, Cities, Trends." Pp. 19-59 in Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCan, "Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities—Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai." Pp. 182-204 in Worlding Cities, edited by A. Roy and A. Ong. Blackwell, 2011. [Available at Vassar College as a ConnectNY e-book.]
Aihwa Ong, "Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty." Pp. 205-26 in Worlding Cities, edited by A. Roy and A. Ong. Blackwell, 2011. [Available at Vassar College as a ConnectNY e-book.]
RESCALING THE STATE: THE EUROPEAN UNION
April 22
Readings:
European Union, "Working for the Regions: EU Regional Policy 2007-2013."
Gerard Delanty, "The Resurgence of the City in Europe? The Spaces of European Citizenship." Pp. 79-92 in Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City, edited by E.F. Isin. Routledge, 2000.
Jennifer Robinson, "The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality." Pp. 15-40 in Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age, edited by E. McCann and K. Ward. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
A TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE? TAHRIR SQUARE & THE "ARAB SPRING"
April 29
Readings:
Jürgen Habermas, "The Public Sphere." Pp. 143-5 in Philosophy and the City, edited by S.M. Meagher. SUNY Press, 2008.
John Urry, "Citizenships." Pp. 161-87 in Sociology Beyond Societies. Routledge, 2000.
Nancy Fraser, "Transnationalizing the Public Sphere." http://www.republicart.net, March 2005.
Said Sadek, "Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital?" Pp. 153-90 in Cairo Cosmopolitan, edited by D. Singerman and P. Amar. American Univeristy in Cairo Press, 2006.
Merlyna Lim, "Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004-2011." Journal of Communication 62 (2012): 231.48.
Simon Cottle, "Media and the Arab Uprisings of 2011: Research Notes." Journalism 12 (2011): 647-59.
May 6
Third collaborative memo due.
Readings to be determined.
May 17
Term paper due at noon.