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1 Social Production of the Built Environment Spring 2011 room 5383 Wednesdays 4:15-6:15 Setha Low Prerequisites: Ethnography of Space and Place or Environmental Social Science III (Social and Cultural Theory) or permission of the instructor Introduction This seminar builds upon the Ethnography of Space and Place course that provides an overview of the anthropology of space and place and spatial methodologies appropriate for students working in this sub field. This advanced seminar focuses more specifically on theories and ethnographies that address the social production of built environment including the social, economic, ideological, and technological forces and processes that result, or seek to result, in the physical creation of the material setting. As part of an overall anthropological theory of space and place it refers to a materialist emphasis on historical emergence and the political and economic formation of space. Henri Lefebvre (1991) is best known for his theorization of this area, however, there are other theorists who have contributed, including many anthropologists who use ethnographic research to uncover cultural, historical, and sociopolitical processes that produce spatial configurations and meanings. The seminar includes readings and discussions on five major topics: 1) the social and cultural history of the production of spaces and spatial relations; 2) the political economy of space; 3) landscapes of power and resistance; 4) spaces of social reproduction and social control; and 5) the production of global space. Theoretical and ethnographic readings in each of these areas will be assigned and discussed in class. At the conclusion of this theoretical orientation, a second set of topics will be selected based on student interests and their ongoing research projects. These sessions provide an opportunity for students to develop their own research and theoretical thinking through presentations and supplementary readings that bridge the student research project and the broader theoretical and ethnographic literature. Requirements include: 1) leading one or more class discussions, 2) presentation of research project or research area in class, 3) review and presentation of one or more ethnographies, and 4) a final paper due one week after the last class. Course materials: Some of the articles have been placed on ereserves under the course name, while the rest are available through the library databases or anthrosource. All of the ethnographies have been placed on reserve, however, since they are required reading, students should also try other libraries or buy used books if possible. If a book can not be located, I can lend a copy to the class leader for that day to scan and circulate the pdf. There are a few books that we will read only one chapter, and those will be scanned and circulated the week before class (or placed on ereserves). We have experienced problems with getting materials on ereserve and if this continues, we will organize a way to circulate the materials through our own network.

2 Syllabus 2/2 Introduction Overview of the history of the anthropology of space and place Recommended reading for those who did not take the Anthropology of Space and Place: Low, Setha and Denise Lawrence-Zu iga The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pps Low, Setha On the Plaza: The Politics of Space and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press. Chapters 6,7 and 8. (Or see Spatializing Culture in ereserves). 2/16 Social and Cultural History of the Production of Space and Spatial Relations: Foundational Readings (Emily, Andreina) King, Anthony A Time for Space and a Space for Time: The Social Production of the Vacation House. In Buildings and Society: Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment. A. King, Ed. London: Routledge and Kegan. Pps There are other selections in this volume that might match your interests better including chapters on the department store, the hospital, the mental asylum, the Hindu temple and others, and you might want to substitute one of these for the required reading. Peattie, Lisa (1968). The View From the Barrio. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Chapters 2 and 3, Pps A classic and although the language is out of date, it is one of the first production of space ethnographies focused on this disjunction between planners and residents. Kuper, Hilda The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space. American Anthropologist 74(3) Another classic in which the production of space is underplayed, but the importance of space is clear in terms of political meaning. Chose one: Rosenweig, Roy Middle-Class Parks and Working-Class Play: The Struggle Over Recreational Space in Worcester, Massachusetts, Radical History Review 21: Blackmar, Betsy Re-walking the Walking City : Housing and Property Relations in New York City, Radical History Review 21: There are other articles in this special issue that might match your interests including markets and charity hospitals. Chose one:

3 Pellow, Deborah The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo. Ethnohistory 5(4) (Also in The Anthropology of Space and Place). Low, Setha Indigenous Architectural Representations: Mesoamerican and Caribbean Foundations of the Spanish American Plaza. American Anthropologist, 97(4): /23 Monday schedule 3/2 Ethnographic example: The Production of the Modern City Holston, James The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 3/9 The Political Economy of Space: Foundational Readings (Benjamin, Manissa) Logan, John and Harvey L. Molotch Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapters 2 and 3. Pps Harvey, David Monument and Myth. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 69(3) Harvey, David Labor, Capital and Class Struggle around the Built Environment in Advanced Capitalist Societies. Politics and Society 6(3) Smith, Neil (1984). Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Chapter 3, Pps in 2008 edition. 3/16 Ethnographic example: Political Economy and the Production of Community/Neighborhood Gregory, Steven Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 3/23 Landscapes of Power and Resistance: Foundational Readings (Hillary, Matt) Lefebrve, Henri English edition. The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell. Chapter 1, Pps If you have read Chapter 1, then read Chapter 2, Pps De Certeau, Michel The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. General Introduction, xi-xviii, Part III, Pps If you have read Part III, Chapter VII Walking in the City, then read Chapters VIII and IX.

4 Czeglédy, André Getting Around Town: Transportation and the Built Environment in Post-apartheid South Africa. City and Society 16(2) /30 Ethnographic example: The Production of Urban Space and Middle Class Resistance Zhang, Li In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 4/6 Spaces of Social Control and Spatial Governance: Foundational Readings (Joanna, Owen) Foucault, Michel (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage. Chapters 3 and 4, Pps Mitchell, Timothy Colonializing Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2, Pps Rabinow, Paul Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulations: Some Reflections on Urbanism. Humanities in Society 5(3-4) (Also in Anthropology of Space and Place) Smart, Alan Agents of Eviction: The Squatter Control and Clearance Division of Hong Kong s Housing Development. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 23(3) If you have not read this article, it is also recommended. Low, Setha The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear. American Anthropologist 103(1). (Also in The Anthropology of Space and Place). 4/13 Ethnographic example: The Social Production of Space and Memory (Monica, Mathias) Sawalha, Aseel Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City. Austin: University of Texas Press. 4/20 Break week 4/27 The Production of Globalized Space (Pengfei, Einat) Castells, Manual The Space of Flows. In The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell. Pps (Also in the The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, edited by Ida Susser.)

5 Hannerz, Ulf Notes on the Global Ecumene. Public Culture 1(2) Appadurai, Arjun Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pps (Also in The Anthropology of Globalization). Bestor, Theodore (2001) Supply-side Sushi: Commodity, Market and the Global City. American Anthropologist 103: Recommended Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson Beyond Culture : Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference. In Culture, Power, Place: Exploration in Critical Anthropology. A. Gupta and J. Ferguson, Eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Pps (Also in The Anthropology of Globalization). 5/4 Presentations: Manissa, Jacob, Einat and Matt 5/11 Presentations: Ben, Emily, Owen, and Pengfei 5/18 Presentations: Martin, Andreina, Hillary, Monica 5/25 Papers due

Critique of Everyday Life Summer 2013

Carleton University Institute of Political Economy PECO 5501A/PSCI 5501A/SOCI 5504A Room 215 Paterson Hall Critique of Everyday Life Summer 2013 Instructor: Mathew Coleman Email: coleman.373@osu.edu Office: