Universität Wien

240087 SE Cities, Belonging and Citizenship (P4) (2011W)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 11.10. 09:00 - 12:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 18.10. 09:00 - 12:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 27.10. 09:00 - 12:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 08.11. 09:00 - 12:15 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 15.11. 09:00 - 12:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 22.11. 09:00 - 12:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 29.11. 09:00 - 12:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 06.12. 09:00 - 12:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 10.01. 09:00 - 12:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 17.01. 09:00 - 12:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 24.01. 09:00 - 12:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 31.01. 09:00 - 12:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course aims to approach city as a site of politics and belonging beyond the trope of community. In times of increasing importance of cities in the context of contemporary globalization, it is important to revisit the questions of participation, claim making, citizenship, and governmentality in cities, as well as the different forms of connectivity, organization and solidarity networks, and the images of urban power in a historical context. How do claims of participation to the city life are organized, mediated, negotiated and performed by different groups, including the new comers to the city? How is the contemporary urban micro- politics entangled with the changing relations between cities and states in times of neoliberal globalization? On the basis of case studies from Africa. Asia and Europe, this course will focus on city as a performative space in which particular forms of power, rights, resistance and belonging are enacted beyond the legal status of citizenship.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Grading : Each student will be assessed through a combination of seminar contribution, oral presentation, and written work.

Oral presentation (30%) Students are expected to introduce one of the seminars. The written introduction(max. 4 pages) is due 2 days before the seminar (latest 4pm). This assignment should ideally include a succinct summary of the main thesis of the text as well as comments and questions about the readings.
Term paper (50%) about 4000 word (double-spaced) paper is due by the end of the term. Students can write their term paper on the seminar topic they introduced, but can also choose another one (after consultation with the lecturer).
Class participation 20%)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The students are expected
To have a clear view on the transformations the states and state sovereignty go through in the context of globalization and their effects on state-city and state citizen relations
To have a grasp of the different models of citizenship/membership employed to capture the changes in the state-individual relationships in the context of globalization
To develop a critical view on the concepts of 'social', 'cultural' and 'political' used in citizenship studies.
To be able to relate cities, citizenship/membership schemes and practices to different forms of governmentality
To have a critical view on the appropriation of 'right to the city' perspective by international/transnational institutions NGOs
To differentiate the specificity of the politics anchored in urban movements in the age of neoliberalism.
To reflect on the contribution of anthropology on all the topics dealt with in the seminar.

Prüfungsstoff

Seminars will begin with a short lecture by the instructor and will be followed by a presentation/introduction of that week’s topic in which student responsible for that week's topic will present the readings with critical comments and questions. This introduction will be followed by a discussion. For each seminar there will be two or three key texts (which appear in the course reader). Those preparing the introduction of the topic are expected to include the suggested readings into their presentation, in addition to the key texts. It is inevitable to prepare in advance for the seminars, as there is a strong emphasis on class participation. At the end of each meeting, the instructor will distribute questions to rethink the readings of the week further and to relate them to the readings of the previous weeks.

Literatur

Frost, J. 2004 Social Citizenship and the City. Journal of Urban History. 30: 289-298.
Juteau, D. 2008 Multicultural Citizenship beyond recognition. In E. 0rsin ed. Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp: 69-99
Kazepov, Y. 2005 Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Social Cohesion. In Y. Kazepov ed. Cities of Europe. Blackwell. Pp: 3-42.
McNevin, A. 2006 Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The Struggle of the Sans-Papiers. Citizenship Studies 10(2): 131-151.
Isin, E. 2002 Being Political. Genealogies of Citizenship. University of Minnesota Press. Pp: 1-51.
Mbembe, A. and S. Nuttale, eds. 2004 Writing the World from an African metropolis. Public Culture.16 (3): 347-372.
Zhang, L. 2002 Spatiality and Urban Citizenship in Late Socialist China. Public Culture 4(2): 311-334.
Diken, B. 2004 From Refugee Camps to Gated Communities. Biopolitics and the End of the City. Citizenship Studies 8(1): 83-106.
Hansen, T. B. 2005 Sovereigns beyond the State: On legality and Authority in Urban India. In T. B. Hansen, and F. Stepputat eds. Sovereign Bodies, Citizens, Migrants and States in Postcolonial World. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Pp: 169-191.
Hansen, T. B. and F. Stepputat 2005 Introduction. In T. B. Hansen, and F. Stepputat eds. Sovereign Bodies, Citizens, Migrants and States in Postcolonial World. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Pp: 1-38.
Massey, D. 2007 World City. Chp 9 Identity, Place and Responsibility. Cambridge: Polity Press. Pp: 177-187
Mitchell, D. 2003 The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Right for Public Space. The Guilford Press.
Sacor, A. 2003 Citizenship in the City: Identity, Community and Rights among Women Migrants to Istanbul. Urban Geography 24(2): 147-168.
Sorza, M. 2001 The Brazilian Way of Conquering the 'Right to the City' DISP 147.
Ustundag, E. 2005 Theorizing Turkish urban Studies with 'Rights to the City'. In D. Wastl- Walter, L. Straeteli and L. Dowler eds., Rights to the City.
Mayer, M. 2006 Urban Social Movements in the Era of Globalization. In N. Brenner and R. Keil eds. The Global Cities Reader. Routledge. Pp: 296-304.
Smith, M. P. 2001 Transnational Urbanism. (chapters on transnational urban politics).
Lehrer, U. R. Keil 2007 From Possible urban Worlds to the Contested Metropolis: Urban Research and Activism in the Age of Neoliberalism. In H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Shappard eds. Contesting Neolibealism. Urban Frontiers. Guilford Press.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39