Readings & Weekly Assignments
Week 1: January 12 – Introduction & Power
Valverde, M. 2009. Laws of the Street. City & Society 21 (2):163–181.
Week 2: January 19 – Power, continued
Critical Essay #1 due
Painter, Joe. 2008. Geographies of Space and Power in Cox, K., M. Low, and J. Robinson The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography.
Allen, John 2003. Power (Chapter 7) in A Companion to Political Geography. US: Blackwell Publishers
Week 3: (Lecture in class 1/19, Tutorials 1/26) - Borders
Newman, D. (2006). The lines that continue to separate us: borders in our “borderless” world. Progress in Human Geography, 30(2), 143–161. doi:10.1191/0309132506ph599xx
Week 4: February 2 – Mapping and Territory
Critical Essay #2 due
Crampton, J. W. (2011). Cartographic calculations of territory. Progress in Human Geography, 35(1), 92–103. doi:10.1177/0309132509358474
Week 5: February 9 – Property & Rights
no class - reading break
Readings: Blomley, N. 1998. Landscapes of Property. Law & Society Review 32(3) 567-612.
Week 6: February 16 - property & rights, public space
critical essay #3 due
Blomley, N. 2005. Flowers in the bathtub: boundary crossings at the public–private divide. Geoforum 36 (3):281–296.
Mitchell, Don (1995) ‘The end of public space? People's Park, definitions of the public, and democracy', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85, 1, 108-133
Week 7: February 23 – Public Space, Rights, Mobility
Critical Essay #4 due
Delaney, D. (2002). The Space That Race Makes. The Professional Geographer, 54(1), 6–14. doi:10.1111/0033-0124.00309
Coutin, S. B. (2005). Being en route. American Anthropologist, 107(2), 195–206.
Week 8: March 2
Midterm Exam
Week 9: March 9 – Conflicts in the City
Blomley, N. 2004. Unsettling the City. (2)
Egan, Brian. 2012. Sharing the colonial burden: Treaty-making and reconciliation in Hul’qumi’num territory. Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien
Week 10: March 16 - Mobility
Critical Essay #5 due
Mitchell, K. (1998). Reworking democracy: contemporary immigration and community politics in Vancouver's Chinatown. Political Geography, 17(6), 729–750.
Muller, B. J. (2010). Unsafe at any speed? Borders, mobility and “safe citizenship.” Citizenship Studies, 14(1), 75–88. doi:10.1080/13621020903466381
Week 11: March 23 - Gender
Critical Essay #6 due
Dowler, et. al. “Don’t let the bastards see you sweat”
Secor, A. (2002). The Veil and Urban Space in Istanbul: Women's dress, mobility and Islamic knowledge. Gender, Place & Culture, 9(1), 5–22. doi:10.1080/09663690120115010
Week 12: March 30 – Security, Mobility, and the Post-9/11 State
Mountz, A. 2011. The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on islands. Political Geography 30 (3):118–128.
Coleman, M. (2009). What Counts as the Politics and Practice of Security, and Where? Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity after 9/11. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99(5), 904–913. doi:10.1080/00045600903245888
Week 13: April 6
NO CLASS - EASTER MONDAY
Critical Essay #7 due
Painter, J. 2006. Prosaic geographies of stateness. Political Geography 25 (7):752–774.
Week 14: April 13 –Biometrics, Security at the Body (Race, Gender, Class)
Critical Essay #8 due
Gilbert, E. (2007). Leaky borders and solid citizens: governing security, prosperity and quality of life in a North American partnership. Antipode, 39(1), 77–98.
Amoore, L., & Hall, A. (2009). Taking people apart: digitised dissection and the body at the border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(3), 444–464. doi:10.1068/d1208