International Studies 750: Topics in International Studies: The Global City
History 808: Colloquium in Comparative History: The Global City
Sociology 980: Special Topics in Sociology: The Global City
Global City Syllabus
Required Books:
J. MacGaffey and R. Bazenguissa-Gonga, Congo-Paris
Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900
V. Valle and R. Torres, Latino Metropolis
A. Bayat, Street Politics
N. Garcia Canclini, Consumers and Citizens
Judd and Fainstein, The Tourist City
V. Schwartz, Spectacular Realities
Recommended:
Z. Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences
R. Biswas, Metropolis Now!
Weekly Schedule:
May 30, Thursday—Introduction; The Global and the Local
Reading: J. MacGaffey, Congo-Paris, 1-106 and Saskia Sassen article
Video: Night on Earth and/or 100% Arabica
June 1, Saturday—Cinema and Representations of Urban Modernity
Reading: V. Schwartz, Spectacular Realities, 177-200; Wide Angle article or Natter, “The City as Cinematic Space” or Shiel and Fitzmaurice on “Playtime”
Video: clips from Film Noir, Dark City, Metropolis, Playtime, Central Station, Dodeskaden, Sans Soleil, City of Hope
Lecture: Window Shopping, reception and movie palaces
June 4, Tuesday—Public Space and the Modern City: Berlin
Reading: Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900 12-86 and 127-203
Video: Symphony of the City and Weimar street film
Lecture: Berlin as World City (D.C. Large), Simmel, Women in the Metropolis
June 6, Thursday—The Imperial City of Spectacle: Paris
Reading:V. Schwartz, 13-88
Video: Paris in the 19th Century
Lecture: W. Benjamin and the Arcades, 1930s, Night in the City
June 8, Saturday—The Colonial City: Algiers
Reading: Z. Celik
Video: Bab El-Oued City and Battle of Algiers
June 11, Tuesday—Consumption and Cultural Flows: Mexico City
Reading: N. Garcia Canclini, Consumers and Citizens, 15-107
Video: Sinking Magic or Americas on Mexico City Migrants or Border Brujo
Lecture: World Music
June 13, Thursday— The Tourist City
Reading: D. Judd and S. Fainstein, The Tourist City
Video: Julianna or Mexican sequence from “Out of the Past” or Las Vegas documentary
June 15, Saturday— The Port City: Social Control and Immigration in Shanghai
Video: The Port of Last Resort
Reading: F. Wakeman, “Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists’ Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927-1949,” Journal of Asian Studies, 54:1, February 1995, 19-42. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “Postmodern L.A. and Old Shanghai,” Contention, 5:3, Spring 1996, 70-90.
June 18, Tuesday—The Immigrant City—New York and Los Angeles
Reading: Latino Metropolis
Video: Taxi Dreams and Bread and Roses
Lecture: Sebastiao Salgado on migrations
June 20, Thursday—Shantytowns, The Homeless, and Community
Reading: Tony Guzewicz, “A New Generation of Homeless Hits Tokyo’s Streets,” Japan Quarterly, July-September 1996, 43-53. Rio Street kids in NACLA or Tobias Hecht or If You Lived Here
Video: Villa El Salvador
June 22, Saturday— The Postmodern City
Reading: Ian Chambers, “Cities Without Maps” in Migrancy, Culture, Identity, 92-114.
Video: Bladerunner and Sans Soleil
June 25, Tuesday— Islamic Revolution in the Streets: Teheran
Reading: Bayat, Street Politics
Video: The Mirror
June 27, Thursday— The Postcolonial City
Reading: Alessandro Triulzi, “African Cities, Historical Memory and Street Buzz” in Chambers and Curti, The Post-colonial Question, 78-91
SHOW: CD-ROM: Five Windows to Africa
June 29, Saturday—The Anti-Globalist Street
Reading: New Left Review?
Video: The Seattle Syndrome
Alternate Session: War and Social Collapse--Sarajevo and Beirut
Reading: Dizdarevic, Sarajevo, A War Journal (Selections)
Video: Urbicide or Welcome to Sarajevo or Once Upon a Time, Beirut or West Beirut
Situationists and the Street
Theory of the Dérive (City Lights Bookstore)
