400015 SE Social Science Approaches to the Built Environment (2021W)
SE Theory for Doctoral Candidates
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 01.09.2021 08:00 to Fr 24.09.2021 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 24.10.2021 23:59
Details
max. 15 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes
MI 20.10.2021 13.15-16.30
MI 10.11.2021 13.15-16.30
MI 01.12.2021 13.15-16.30
MI 15.12.2021 13.15-16.30 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
MI 12.01.2022 13.15-16.30 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
MI 26.01.2022 13.15-16.30
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
While the natural environment has received its fair share of social science attention in recent years, primarily due to environmentalist concerns surrounding climate change and other alarming ecological processes, the notion of the built environment has often been limited to discussions of architecture and design in urban settings. This course will encourage a broad reading and discussion of social science approaches to the built environment, ranging from critical infrastructure studies to political ecology to actor-network-theory and dwelling perspectives.
Assessment and permitted materials
A mandatory seminar paper will count for 50% of the grade. The rest of the grade will be determined by short oral presentations and data collection and analysis assignments, as well as by course participation.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
In order to receive a passing grade, you need at least 60 points. A sehr gut requires at least 90 out of 100 points (a gut at least 80 points, etc.). Attendance is required throughout the semester.
Examination topics
There will be no exams.
Reading list
Ashworth, Gregory
2011 Preservation, Conservation and Heritage: Approaches to the Past in the Present through the Built Environment. Asian Anthropology 10(1):1-18.Cao, Xinyu (Jason)
2016 How Does Neighborhood Design Affect Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Twin Cities. Travel Behaviour and Society 5:68-76.Carse, Ashley, and David Kneas
2019 Unbuilt and Unfinished: The Temporalities of Infrastructure. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 10:9-28.Easterling, Keller
2014 Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. London: Verso.Edwards, Paul N., et al.
2009 Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies. Journal of the Association for Information Studies 10(5):365-374.Heckenberger, Michael J.
2005 The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000. New York: Routledge.Heidegger, Martin
1971 [1951] Building, Dwelling, Thinking.Hillier, Bill
2008 Space and Spatiality: What the Built Environment Needs from Social Theory. Building Research and Information 36(3):216-230.Howe, Cymene, et al.
2016 Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41(3):547-565.Hughes, Thomas P.
2004 Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Ingold, Tim
2000 The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge.Kincaid, Andrew
2006 Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Larkin, Brian
2013 The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology 42:327-343.Lawrence, Denise L. and Setha M. Low
1990 The Built Environment and Spatial Form. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 453-505.Mumford, Lewis
1964 The Highway and the City. New York: The New Amertican Library.
2010 [1934] Technics and Civilization. With a new foreword by Langdon Winner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Peyton, Jonathan
2017 Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press.Rapoport, Amos, ed.
1967 The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.
1969 House Form and Culture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
1976 Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies.
1982 The Meaning of the Built Environment: A Nonverbal Communication Approach. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications.Schweitzer, Peter, Olga Povoroznyuk, and Sigrid Schiesser
2017 Beyond Wilderness: Towards an Anthropology of Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Russian North. The Polar Journal 7(1):58-85.Schwenkel, Christina
2020 Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Star, Susan Leigh
1999 The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist 43(3):377-391.Star, Susan Leigh, and Karen Ruhleder
1996 Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Complex Problems in Design and Access for Large-Scale Collaborative Systems. Information Systems Research 7(1):111-134.Venkatesan, Soumhya, et al.
2018 Attention to Infrastructure Offers a Welcome Reconfiguration of Anthropological Approaches to the Political. Critique of Anthropology 38(1):3-52.White, Richard
2011 Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W.W. Norton.
2011 Preservation, Conservation and Heritage: Approaches to the Past in the Present through the Built Environment. Asian Anthropology 10(1):1-18.Cao, Xinyu (Jason)
2016 How Does Neighborhood Design Affect Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Twin Cities. Travel Behaviour and Society 5:68-76.Carse, Ashley, and David Kneas
2019 Unbuilt and Unfinished: The Temporalities of Infrastructure. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 10:9-28.Easterling, Keller
2014 Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. London: Verso.Edwards, Paul N., et al.
2009 Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies. Journal of the Association for Information Studies 10(5):365-374.Heckenberger, Michael J.
2005 The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000. New York: Routledge.Heidegger, Martin
1971 [1951] Building, Dwelling, Thinking.Hillier, Bill
2008 Space and Spatiality: What the Built Environment Needs from Social Theory. Building Research and Information 36(3):216-230.Howe, Cymene, et al.
2016 Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41(3):547-565.Hughes, Thomas P.
2004 Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Ingold, Tim
2000 The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge.Kincaid, Andrew
2006 Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Larkin, Brian
2013 The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology 42:327-343.Lawrence, Denise L. and Setha M. Low
1990 The Built Environment and Spatial Form. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 453-505.Mumford, Lewis
1964 The Highway and the City. New York: The New Amertican Library.
2010 [1934] Technics and Civilization. With a new foreword by Langdon Winner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Peyton, Jonathan
2017 Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press.Rapoport, Amos, ed.
1967 The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.
1969 House Form and Culture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
1976 Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies.
1982 The Meaning of the Built Environment: A Nonverbal Communication Approach. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications.Schweitzer, Peter, Olga Povoroznyuk, and Sigrid Schiesser
2017 Beyond Wilderness: Towards an Anthropology of Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Russian North. The Polar Journal 7(1):58-85.Schwenkel, Christina
2020 Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Star, Susan Leigh
1999 The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist 43(3):377-391.Star, Susan Leigh, and Karen Ruhleder
1996 Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Complex Problems in Design and Access for Large-Scale Collaborative Systems. Information Systems Research 7(1):111-134.Venkatesan, Soumhya, et al.
2018 Attention to Infrastructure Offers a Welcome Reconfiguration of Anthropological Approaches to the Political. Critique of Anthropology 38(1):3-52.White, Richard
2011 Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W.W. Norton.
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