The Anthropology of Cities
ANTH 230
Spring 2007 not offered
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This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of urban anthropology. The first part of the course focuses on the city, broadly understood, and on attempts to theorize and write about its unwieldy, increasingly disjointed realities. Readings or urbanism, the politics of space and place, and transnationalism include perspectives form Marxism, the Avant Garde, feminism, post-structuralism, and globalization theory. The second part of the course focuses on the study of cities as they are experienced, imagined, and made every day by those who live in them. We consider how cities become foremost spaces for the exercise and contestation of power, for social cohabitation and conflict, for cultural creation and repression. Themes include class and race; postcoloniality and migration; "informality" and its cultures; the carnival; public and "sacred" spaces; crime, violence, and policing; and storytelling in the city. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Lecture/Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ANTH)(CGST-MN)(HRAD-MN)(STS) |
Major Readings:
Tomas Sugrue, THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS: RACE AND INEQUALITY IN POSTWAR DETROIT
Brett Williams, UPSCALING DOWNTOWN: STALLED GENTRIFICTION IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Philippe Bourgois, IN SEARCH OF RESPECT: SELLING CRACK IN EL BARRIO
MARIE MIRANDA, HOMEGIRLS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
SETHA LOW. BEHIND THE GATES, LIFE SECURITY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN THE FORTRESS AMERICA
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly response papers, two 7-9 page papers or a final 15-20 page research paper. |
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