Welcome to the ANTH 2350 class blog!
Some of the questions that drive this course, and that your contributions will engage with:
- What makes a city a city? How do we cast the city in our imagination? How might we rethink the connection between criminality and violence in the city?
- Which social processes are defined as urban, and why? What other processes happen under the rubric “urbanization”?
- What kinds of urbanisms (as opposed to ‘organisms’) exist in the different (social) spaces of the city? In what ways might cities encourage, support, enable or suppress resistance?
- Are political cities, colonial cities, world cities, slum cities, analytically sound categories that capture the dominant processes of a particular city? What are specific colonial legacies that post-colonial cities must contend with?
- Is urbanization a form of globalization?
- The blog is a site for interaction as well as critical reflection. Engage with your classmates. Respond to their ideas. Have your posts be a dialectic. You may post inspirational photographs, short videos, links to other websites, projects, research, respond to the day’s reading, film, or ask a discussion question. Every posting you make should have an explanatory paragraph that clearly explains the analytical links to the reading or idea you have been inspired by. For you to obtain credit, there must be analysis present. Please remember to include your name in your title or post.
