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1 ANTH 285 Cities and Citizenship Summer 2018 Instructor Room No. Office Hours Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Fatima Tassadiq TBA Course Basics Credit Hours 4 Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 4 Duration 110 min Recitation/Lab (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week Duration Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week Duration Course Distribution Core Elective Open for Student Category No Yes All Course Description Over half of the world s population now lives in cities. The United Nations predicts that by 2050 this proportion will increase to 66%. This course aims to introduce students to the anthropological study of cities by familiarizing them with a range of theoretical concepts, methodological techniques, and analysis of cities and urban life. We begin with an examination of early theoretical influences on the study of cities and the identification of urban areas as sites of investigation. This is followed by an exploration of how the material and social environment of the city is shaped through different modes of governance and planning. We continue to study the formation of urban centers by attending to the relationship between cities, modernity, and development. In the second part of the class we focus on how larger historical, political, and economic processes work to (re)produce inequalities between and within cities. Finally, we end the course by examining how such inequalities impact individuals and are actively contested and negotiated in everyday urban life. This is a multi-disciplinary course that will draw upon a range of sources from anthropology, political science, urban studies, geography, and history. The course has been designed to encourage students to read original theoretical sources and ethnographies. Consequently, the reading list includes excerpts from canonical texts as well as more recent ethnographic studies. Course content also includes ethnographic films. Ethnographic cases have been drawn from across the world but with a particular 1

2 emphasis on South Asia. Objectives By the end of the course you will be familiar with: Attain familiarity with key theoretical approaches to understanding and studying urban issues. Understand the ways in which the material environment of cities both shapes and is shaped by socio-political and economic processes. Analyze how urban life and forms are structured through global and local inequalities along lines of income, class, ethnicity, religion, and gender. Think critically about urban policies. Course Evaluation Attendance: 5% Class participation: 10% Pop quizzes: 20% Exam 1 (midterm): 20% Exam 2 (Non-comprehensive final): 20% Final Essay: 25% (Presentation- 5% Paper 20%) Attendance is mandatory. Half points will be deducted for late arrival or early departure. All students are expected to come to class prepared by doing the assigned readings. There will be a total of 10 quizzes. 2 quizzes will be dropped. Quizzes will include multiple choice questions and/or short questions. There will be two exams. The second exam will only include the material covered after the midterm exam. Exams will include short questions and essay questions. The final essay will be based on an original research project or mini-ethnography. Possible topics will be introduced early in the course. Students are expected to discuss appropriate topics with me before starting their research. Research findings will also be presented to the class at the end of the course. Classroom Management Policy Cell phones to be switched off 2

3 Students walking out of the classroom in the middle of the session to be marked absent Classroom door to be closed five minutes after the session begins. Session 1: Introduction Williams, Raymond. (2014). City. Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society. Oxford University Press. United Nations (2014) World Urbanization Prospects. Session 2: Theorizing the City I Mumford, L. (2011). What is the City? The City Reader. Routledge Park, R. E. (2012). Human Ecology. The Urban Sociology Reader. Routledge Wirth, Louis. (2012). Urbanism as a Way of Life. The Urban Sociology Reader. Routledge Burgess, Ernest. (2012) The Growth of the City. The Urban Sociology Reader. Routledge Session 3: Theorizing the City II: Williams, Raymond. (2014). Capitalism. Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society. Oxford University Press. Harvey, D. (1978). The urban process under capitalism: a framework for analysis. International journal of urban and regional research, 2(1-3), Lefebvre, H. (2003). The urban revolution. U of Minnesota Press. Chapter 1. Session 4: Urban Governance & Planning I: Governmentality Foucault, M. (1984). Space, knowledge and power. The foucault reader, Joyce, P. (2002). Maps, blood and the city: the governance of the social in nineteenth century Britain. The Social in Question: New Bearings in History and the Social Sciences, Session 5: Urban Governance & Planning II: Modernist Planning Scott, J. C. (2006). Cities, people, and language. Anthropology of the State,

4 Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press. Chapter Session 6: Urban Governance & Planning III: Neoliberal governance Harvey, D. (2007). Neoliberalism and the City. Studies in Social Justice, 1(1), Caldeira, T. (2008). From modernism to neoliberalism in São Paulo: reconfiguring the city and its citizens. Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalising Age, Session 7: Urban Governance & Planning IV: The Colonial City Glover, W. J. (2005). Objects, models, and exemplary works: Educating sentiment in colonial India. The Journal of Asian Studies, 64(3), Chakrabarty, D. (1991). Open space/public place: Garbage, modernity and India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 14(1), Session 8: Urban Governance & Planning V: Ethnography Hull, M. S. (2012). Government of paper: The materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan. Univ of California Press. Chapter 1, 2 Session 9: Urban Governance & Planning VI: Ethnography Hull, M. S. (2012). Government of paper: The materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan. Univ of California Press. Chapter 4, 5 Session 10: Urban Growth Out of class film: Azem, I. (Director). (2012). Ekümenopolis: City Without Limits [Video file]. Turkey/ Germany. Session 11: Modernity and the City Ferguson, J. (1999). Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Vol. 57). Univ of California Press. Chapter 1 & 3 Session 12: Inhabiting the City De Certeau, M. (1984). Walking in the City Mrázek, R. (2002). Engineers of happy land: Technology and nationalism in a colony. 4

5 Princeton University Press. Chapter 1. Low, S. M. (1996). Spatializing culture: the social production and social construction of public space in Costa Rica. American ethnologist, 23(4), Session 13: World Cities/Global Cities Sassen, S. (2002). Locating cities on global circuits. Environment and urbanization, 14(1), Ghertner, D. Asher. (2011). Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi. Worlding cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global (Vol. 42). John Wiley & Sons Appadurai, Arjun (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Chapter Session 14: Midterm Session 15: Global inequalities Mike, D. (2006). Planet of Slums. Chapter 1, 2 & 7 Session 16: Urban Belonging Bayat, A. (2000). From Dangerous Classes' to Quiet Rebels' Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South. International sociology, 15(3), Anjaria, J. S. (2016). The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai. Stanford University Press. Chapter 3 or 4. Session 17: Gentrification Herrera, L. M. G., Smith, N., & Vera, M. Á. M. (2007). Gentrification, displacement, and tourism in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Urban Geography, 28(3), Kern, L. (2013). All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto's Junction. Gender, Place & Culture, 20(4), Session 18: Displacement & Development Harvey, D. (2008) The Right to the City. New Left Review. (53), In Class Film: Bass, W. (Director). (2014). The Urban World. USA/ India. 5

6 Session 19: Urban Violence Hansen, T. B. (2005). Sovereigns beyond the state: on legality and authority in urban India. Sovereign bodies: Citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world, Gayer, L. (2007). Guns, slums, and yellow devils : a genealogy of urban conflicts in Karachi, Pakistan. Modern Asian Studies, 41(3), Session 20: Class and the City Maqsood, A. (2017). The New Pakistani Middle Class. Harvard University Press. Chapter Zhang, L. (2012). In search of paradise: Middle-class living in a Chinese metropolis. Cornell University Press. Chapter Session 21: Theorizing Citizenship Appadurai, A., & Holston, J. (1996). Cities and citizenship. Public Culture, 8(2), Holston, J., & Caldeira, T. (1998). Democracy, law, and violence: disjunctions of Brazilian citizenship. Fault lines of democracy in post-transition Latin America, Session 22: Contesting Citizenship Chatterjee, P. (2004). The politics of the governed: reflections on popular politics in most of the world. Columbia University Press. Chapter 2 & 3 Anwar, N. H. (2014). Urban transformations: brokers, collaborative governance and community building in Karachi s periphery. South Asian History and Culture, 5(1), Session 23: Changing regimes of citizenship Ong, A. (2006). Neoliberalism as exception: Mutations in citizenship and sovereignty. Duke University Press. Chapter 9. Cross, J. (2010). Neoliberalism as unexceptional: Economic zones and the everyday precariousness of working life in South India. Critique of Anthropology, 30(4), Session 24: Urban Citizenship: Ethnography 6

7 Anand, N. (2017). Hydraulic city: Water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai. Duke University Press. Chapter 1 & 3 Session 25 : Urban Citizenship: Ethnography Anand, N. (2017). Hydraulic city: Water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai. Duke University Press. Chapter 4 & 5 Session 26: Presentations Session 27: Presentations Session 28: Final Exam 7

Lahore University of Management Sciences. MATH 210 Introduction to Differential Equations

Lahore University of Management Sciences. MATH 210 Introduction to Differential Equations MATH 210 Introduction to Differential Equations Fall 2016-2017 Instructor Room No. Office Hours Email Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Ali Ashher Zaidi ali.zaidi@lums.edu.pk Math.lums.edu.pk/moodle