EES 79903 – Urban Space &
Social Power: New struggles and possibilities |
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Instructor: |
Dr. Marianna Pavlovskaya |
Office location: |
HN 1003F and GC TBA |
Office hours: |
F 16-17 (at GC) and by appointment |
Email: |
mpavlovAThunter.cuny.edu (See Email rules) |
BlackBoard login page: |
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Syllabus page: |
http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~mpavlov/
and click on
course link EES79903 Urban Space and Social Power |
YOU MUST HAVE WORKING
BB ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE COURSE.
This
course examines the processes that rapidly reshape cities around the world. In
particular, we will focus on the most pertinent struggles over urban space and
urban futures in the neoliberal era. We will examine how relations of class,
race, and gender affect production of urban space, the role of urban space in
the political economy of capitalism, causes and consequences of the many forms
of gentrification, expansion of surveillance regimes, displacement of low
income and slum residents, and digital urban landscapes and politics. Equally
importantly, we will examine how cities are being reclaimed as shared spaces
through the “right to the city” and other urban movements as well as through
theorizing the urban as a site for post-capitalism that already contains urban
commons, solidarity economy, and other non-capitalist economic, cultural and
political practices. Several class sessions will be combined with the course in
the Anthropology program taught by Dr. Ida Susser in order to host lectures
from the ARC speaker series “Inequality and the commons.”
Students will learn to differentiate between theoretical frameworks and theoretically locate urban research. They will lead discussions, write weekly response papers, a midterm paper and a final paper, and present their final paper in class at the end of the semester.
BlackBoard: http://bb.hunter.cuny.edu (syllabus, course schedule, grades, discussion board, digital readings)
The class meets once a week. Each session will begin with my
short lecture to introduce a topic and/or presentation of the readings by the
students assigned to lead the discussion. The rest of the class will be devoted
to the discussion. Last week will include final paper presentations to the
class.
If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to read the assigned literature and post the reaction paper.
Reaction papers |
20% |
Class participation |
20% |
Midterm paper |
25% |
Final paper |
35% |
Short reaction papers (300-500 words) to weekly readings. Please do not
summarize but discuss what you found to be most important, engaging, or
troubling. All papers must be proofread and clearly written. They should be posted to the discussion board on BB no
later than 5pm Thursday evening. They will be read not only by me but by
all the students. The papers will be 2 point each (0 if you do not post it).
Late submissions will earn lesser points. Please print these papers as well and
hand them in, in addition to posting to BB.
Class discussions are essential. You must read ALL the assigned readings and
be ready to talk about them. Discussion leaders will briefly introduce the
readings (5 min for all readings) and formulate two questions for discussion.
A midterm paper is due in the middle of the semester.
It is a short 5 page research paper that analyzes class readings to date.
Midterm paper questions and requirements are posted on BB.
This paper will provide you with a chance to examine an
urban topic of your choice in greater depth. The topic should be related to the
class content. It will include the analysis of the class readings as well as
literature from your research area. Requirements for the final paper are posted on BB.
CUNY and
PLAGIARISM will not be tolerated and all university rules regarding its occurrences will be strictly followed.
Please email questions regarding the course. I usually respond by the next day (excluding weekends). Please specify EES709 in the subject line and sign your full name.
In compliance with the American Disability Act of 1990 (ADA) and with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Hunter College is committed to ensuring educational parity and accommodations for all students with documented disabilities and/or medical conditions. It is recommended that all students with documented disabilities (Emotional, Medical, Physical, and/or Learning) consult the Office of AccessABILITY, located in Room E1214B, to secure necessary academic accommodations. For further information and assistance, please call: (212) 772- 4857 or (212) 650-3230.
All Graduate Center students have personal e-mail accounts, BlackBoard and internet access. The current class schedule with the assigned readings and discussion schedule will be on Black Board.
While libraries provide access to many on-line publications, only articles
and books published by academic press should be used as a source for your
papers. This means that they went through a review process and their academic
quality is guaranteed.
Please contact EES CEO Prof. Cindi Katz (ckatzATgc.cuny.edu) and secretary Ms. Lina McClain (lmcclainATgc.cuny.edu) for help with BB and library access.
F, Jan 29 T Feb 9 F Feb 12 W Mar 23 F Mar 25 Apr 22, 29 May 13 |
First class Class, Friday schedule Class, Friday schedule No class No classes, Spring recess Last class |
Please see BB for updated Class Schedule. This schedule is subject to change. Readings will be articles and selections from the books below. Some of these readings are recommended.
Weeks |
Dates |
Topics |
1 |
1/29 |
Introduction
and logistics |
2 |
2/5 |
Post-modernism
and neoliberal urbanism Soja, Edward W. 1996. Thirdspace:
Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. 1 edition.
Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Publishers. Logan, John,
and Harvey Molotch. 2007. Urban Fortunes: The
Political Economy of Place. 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
edition. University of California Press. Brenner,
Neil, and Nik Theodore, eds. 2003. Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban
Restructuring in North America and Western Europe. 1 edition.
Wiley-Blackwell. Hackworth,
Jason. 2006. The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in
American Urbanism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Peck, Jamie.
2013. Constructions of Neoliberal Reason. Reprint edition. Oxford
University Press. Peck, Jamie.
2014. “Entrepreneurial Urbanism: Between Uncommon Sense and Dull Compulsion.”
Geografiska Annaler
Series B: Human Geography 96 (4): 396–401. doi:10.1111/geob.12061. Peck, Jamie,
and Nik Theodore. 2015. Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the
Thresholds of Neoliberalism. Minneapolis: Univ
Of Minnesota Press. Weber |
3 |
2/9 |
Race, class,
and cities Davis, Mike.
2006. Planet of Slums. London ; New York: Verso. Wacquant, Loïc. 2007. Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of
Advanced Marginality. Polity. Dikec, Mustafa. 2007. Badlands of the Republic: Space,
Politics and Urban Policy. 1 edition. Malden, MA ; Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell. |
4 |
2/19 |
Rebel
cities. Speaker - David Harvey. Joint class. Harvey,
David. 2012. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban
Revolution. Verso Books. |
5 |
2/26 |
Confronting
neoliberal urbanism. Joint class? Speaker TBA. IS away. Ferguson,
James. 2010. “The Uses of Neoliberalism.” Antipode 41 (January):
166–84. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00721.x. Peck, Jamie,
Doreen Massey, Katherine Gibson, and Victoria Lawson. 2014. “Symposium: The
Kilburn Manifesto: After Neoliberalism?” Environment and Planning A 46
(9): 2033–49. doi:10.1068/akilburn. Marcuse,
Peter, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, and Justin Steil, eds. 2011. Searching for the Just City: Debates
in Urban Theory and Practice. 1 edition. Routledge. Soja, Edward W. 2010. Seeking Spatial Justice.
Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. (digital at
CUNY) Ghertner,
Asher. 2015. Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi. 1
edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. |
6 |
3/4 |
Commons –
Joint class. Speaker TBA. MP away. Readings TBA |
7 |
3/11 |
Constructing
the commons in the global North. Joint class. Speaker TBA. IS away. Huron,
Amanda. 2015. “Working with Strangers in Saturated Space: Reclaiming and
Maintaining the Urban Commons.” Antipode 47 (4): 963–79.
doi:10.1111/anti.12141. Harvey, D.
The creation of the urban commons. Ch 3 in Rebel
Cities. “Urban
Commons: Rethinking the City (Space, Materiality and the Normative):
Christian Borch, Martin Kornberger:
9781138017245 Dellenbaugh, Mary, Martin Schwegmann,
Markus Kip, Agnes Katharina Muller, and Majken Bieniok, eds. 2015. Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State
and Market. Birkhauser. St. Martin,
Kevin. 2009. “Toward a Cartography of the Commons:
Constituting the Political and Economic Possibilities of Place.” Professional
Geographer 61 (4): 493–507. doi:10.1080/00330120903143482. Other
readings TBA. |
8 |
3/18 |
Joint class.
Speaker Michael Blim (Anthropology). IS away Readings TBA |
9 |
3/23 |
Midterm
paper is due Gentrification
and citizenship Lees,
Loretta. 2012. “The Geography of Gentrification: Thinking through Comparative
Urbanism.” Progress in Human Geography 36 (2): 155–71. doi:10.1177/0309132511412998. Lees,
Loretta, Tom Slater, and Elvin K. Wyly. 2007. Gentrification.
1 edition. Routledge. Smith, Neil.
2002. “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy.”
Antipode 34 (3): 427–50. doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00249. Freeman,
Lance. 2006. There Goes the ’Hood: Views of
Gentrification from the Ground Up. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University
Press. Peck, Jamie.
2005. “Struggling with the Creative Class.” International Journal of Urban
& Regional Research 29 (4): 740–70.
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00620.x. Sites,
William. 2003. Remaking New York : Primitive Globalization and the
Politics of Urban Community. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of
Minnesota Press. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10194405. Chatterjee, Ipsita. 2014. Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban
Condition: Theories and Case Studies. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications Pvt.
Ltd. Film “My
Brooklyn” |
10 |
4/1 |
AAG in SF,
no class |
11 |
4/8 |
Architecture/Militarization/Techno Weizman, Eyal. 2012. Hollow
Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. 1 edition. London ; New
York: Verso. Lees,
Loretta, and Richard Baxter. 2011. “A ‘building Event’ of Fear: Thinking
through the Geography of Architecture.” Social & Cultural Geography 12
(2): 107–22. doi:10.1080/14649365.2011.545138. Graham,
Stephen. 2011. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.
London ; New York: Verso. Graham,
Stephen, and Simon Marvin. 2001. Splintering Urbanism: Networked
Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. First
Printing edition. London ; New York: Routledge. |
12 |
4/15 |
Liberating
the city Peake,
Linda, and Martina Rieker, eds. 2013. Rethinking
Feminist Interventions into the Urban. 1 edition. London: Routledge. Easterling,
Keller. 2014. Critical Spatial Practice 4 - Subtraction. Edited by Nickolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen.
Sternberg Press. Roelvink,
Gerda, Kevin St Martin, and J. K. Gibson-Graham, eds. 2015. Making Other
Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. Hubbard,
Phil. 2011. Cities and Sexualities. London ; New York:
Routledge. Solidarity
economy Other
readings TBA |
13 |
5/6 |
Urban
political ecology Heynen, Nik, Maria Kaika, and
Eric Swyngedouw, eds. 2006. In the Nature of
Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. New
Ed edition. London ; New York: Routledge. Kaika, Maria. 2004. City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and
the City. 1st ed. Routledge. Article on
Flint, MI |
14 |
5/13 |
Topic TBA |
15 |
5/20 |
Mini-conference. Final paper presentations. Joint class. |
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5/23 |
Final paper
due |