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GEOG 701, Section 001 Geographic Thought and Theory Fall 2012 Class meets Wednesdays from 5:35 – 8:15 in HN 1004 Instructor: Christian Siener [email protected] Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30 – 5:30 in Room XXXX

Course Overview

This course examines the intellectual history and the diverse theoretical perspectives that constitute the field of American today. Given the breadth of the discipline, we focus primarily on key later developments, from to post-positivism, Marxism, feminism, and post-, while paying attention to the many contemporary theoretical intersections. We will read foundational texts illustrating these perspectives and engage with recent articles and books. We will discuss how these works employ key geographic concepts, such as place, space, territory, and time to understand the processes of class, race, gender and sexuality and uses of . By reading the literature, students will learn to differentiate between theoretical frameworks and to theoretically locate their own research. Students will lead discussions, compose weekly reaction papers, write a midterm paper and a final term paper, and present their term paper to the class.

Course Requirements

The class meets once per week, and sessions will consist of a short lecture on the weekly material as well as student presentations of the assigned readings. Each week, a different student will be responsible for presenting the readings and composing three discussion questions. Depending on the number of students enrolled in the course, each student may have to present more than once. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to read the assigned literature and post the reaction paper. Weekly topics and readings are listed beginning on page 3. Required readings are listed first. The section titled “Further Reading” in some weeks is not required, but is recommended for those who are more interested in that week‟s theoretical and epistemological framework.

This syllabus and weekly assignments are posted on Blackboard. If you do not have access to Blackboard yet, please let me know immediately. I will communicate any scheduling or syllabus changes through Blackboard. Please make sure that the email listed for you in Blackboard is current and that you change your personal settings so that you receive an email when a notification is posted. Many of the weekly readings have been placed on an eRes site at the Hunter library. Readings that are not posted on the eRes site are available through the digital journal subscriptions at the Hunter library and students will be responsible for obtaining these readings on their own. Hunter College journal subscriptions can be found by clicking on the “List of Journals / Magazines” link at: library.hunter.cuny.edu.

Reaction Papers and class participation: Each student must post a reaction paper on Blackboard by 9pm on the Tuesday evening before our weekly class. Reaction papers should be between 400 and 500 words, and consist of an analysis and discussion of the arguments and implications of each text. Reaction papers that merely summarize the readings will receive a lower grade. All papers must be proofread and clearly written. Reaction papers will assure that students have thought about each text and are prepared for weekly class Geographic Thought and Theory, Fall 2012 discussions initiated by student presenters. Reaction papers will answer questions such as: What are the main arguments of the text? What methods does the researcher use? How does the researcher present evidence to support the main argument? How is the combination of evidence and methodology either sufficient or insufficient in answering the primary research questions? The questions listed here do not exhaust the analytical questions that students can ask of each text. They should be seen as examples for students to follow in composing their own creative questions. Reaction papers will be graded according to the following system: 0 points – no paper posted; 1 point – rushed, unclear papers, or summaries of the texts; 2 points – good papers, 3 points – excellent papers.

Midterm paper: The midterm paper is due in the middle of the semester and is a short 7 page paper in which students will analyze weekly class readings to date. Midterm paper questions and requirements will be posted on Blackboard on Wednesday, October 24. The paper is due in class (in print, please do not submit electronically) two weeks later on Wednesday, November 7.

Final paper: This paper is to help you think about your research in relation to the many theoretical, philosophical, and epistemological perspectives in today‟s geography. It will include a deeper analysis of the course readings as well as a literature review in your research area. Requirements for the final paper will be posted on Blackboard. The final paper is due in my mailbox in the Geography main office (in print please, not electronically) by 5pm on Monday, December 17.

Evaluation: Grades will be calculated according to the following weights for each class requirement.

Class participation, presentations, and reaction papers 40% Midterm paper 30% Final term paper 30%

Important Course Dates: Wednesday, August 29 First class meeting. Wednesday, September 26 No class. Wednesday, October 10 No class. Wednesday, October 24 Midterm guidelines posted on Blackboard. Wednesday, November 7 Midterm papers due in class. Please do not submit electronically. Wednesday, December 12 Final paper presentations in class. Monday, December 17 Final papers due by 5pm in my mailbox. Please do not submit electronically.

Expected Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to trace the development of geography, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century, through its primary intellectual currents and shifts. They will be able to define, compare, and contrast the various , , and methodologies of coexisting research within geography in particular and the social in general. They will be able to explain where the various paradigms overlap and how they are at odds. They will have gained the skills to identify and situate academic articles within particular research paradigms, the reading proficiency to recognize the structure and main arguments of academic papers, books, and other texts, the ability to research a literature review for a thesis project, and facility leading classroom discussions and analysis. Finally, they will be able to situate their own academic interests within particular traditions of , looking toward the goal of completing the Master‟s thesis or final project. Page 2

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Hunter College Policy on Academic Integrity

Hunter College regards acts of academic dishonesty (e.g., plagiarism, cheating on examinations, obtaining unfair advantage, and falsification of records and official documents) as serious offenses against the values of intellectual honesty. The College is committed to enforcing the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity and will pursue cases of academic dishonesty according to the Hunter College Academic Integrity Procedures.

ADA Policy

In compliance with the American Disability Act of 1990 (ADA) and with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Hunter College is committed to ensuring educational parity and accommodations for all students with documented disabilities and/or medical conditions. It is recommended that all students with documented disabilities (Emotional, Medical, Physical, and/or Learning) consult the Office of AccessABILITY, located in Room E1214B, to secure necessary academic accommodations. For further information and assistance, please call: (212) 772- 4857 or (212) 650-3230.

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Weekly Reading Assignments:

Week 1 – August 29: No readings. Course overview. Scope of the course, organization, expectations, and assignment of discussion leaders. Paradigms and theories.

Week 2 – September 5: shifts in Kuhn, T. (1970). The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (pp. 92–110). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cloke, P.; Philo, C., and Sadler, D. (1991). Introduction: Changing approaches to human geography. Chapter 1 in Approaching Human Geography: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Debates. (pp. 1-27). New York & London: The Guilford Press. Johnston, R. J. 2003. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? (originally published in 1978) in Human geography: An essential anthology. Agnew J.; Livingstone, D.N.; and Rogers, A., eds. (pp. 37-53). United Kingdom: Blackwell. Guba, Egon G. (1990). The alternative paradigm dialog. Chapter 1 in Guba, Egon G., ed. The paradigm dialog (pp. 17 – 30). Newbury Park, London, New Delhi: Publications. Cadwallader, M. (1996). . Chapter 1 in Urban geography: An analytical approach (pp. 1- 19). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Knox, P. L., and S. Pinch. (2000). Social geography and the sociospatial . Chapter 1 in Urban social geography: An introduction, 4th ed. (pp. 1 – 22). London and New York: Prentice Hall. Further Reading: Creswell, J. W. (2003). A Framework for Design. Chapter 1 in Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (pp.3-26). London: Sage.

Week 3 – September 12: Geography, Enlightenment, and Empire Heffernan, M. (2003). Histories of Geography in Key Concepts in Geography. Holloway, S.L.; Rice, S.P.; and Valentine, G., eds. London: Sage. Said, E. (2000). Orientalism (originally published in 1978). Chapter 4 in The Edward Said Reader (pp. 63-113). Bayoumi, M. and Ruben, A., eds. New York: Vintage. Livingstone, D. (1992). The Geographical Experiment: Evolution and the Founding of a Discipline. Chapter 6 in The Geographical Tradition (pp. 177 - 215). Malden: Blackwell. Livingstone, D. (1992). A „Sternly Practical‟ Pursuit: Geography, Race and Empire. Chapter 7 in The Geographical Tradition (pp. 216 - 259). Malden, Blackwell. Driver, F. (2001). Geographical , Exploration and Empire. Chapter 1 in Geography Militant (pp. 1 – 23). Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Godlewska, A. (1994). Napoleon‟s Geographers (1797-1815): Imperialists and Soldiers of Modernity in Geography and Empire (pp. 31 – 35). Smith, N. and Godlewska, A., eds. Malden: Blackwell. John, G. E. (2004). Benevolent imperialism: George Catlin and the practice of Jeffersonian geography. Journal of , 30(4), 597–617.

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Pierpont, C. R. (2004). The Measure of America: How a Rebel Anthropologist Waged War on Racism. The New Yorker, March 8. Gregory, D. (2010). Seeing Red: Baghdad and the -ful city. , 29(5), 266–279. Further Reading: Livingstone, D. (1992). The Regionalizing Ritual: Geography, Place and Particularity. Chapter 8 in The Geographical Tradition (pp. 260 – 303). Malden: Blackwell. Godlewska, A. (1999). From Enlightenment Vision to Modern ? Humboldt‟s Visual Thinking in Geography and Enlightenment (pp. 236 - 280). Livingstone, D.N. and Withers, W.J., eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pratt, M.L. (1992). Alexander von Humboldt and the Reinvention of America in Imperial Eyes (pp. 111 – 143). London: Routledge. Sauer, Karl. (1974). Land and life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Week 4 – September 19: Spatial Science and post-positivist geography Cloke, Paul; Philo, Chris, and Sadler, David. Introduction: Changing approaches to human geography. Ch.1 in. Approaching Human Geography An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Debates. New York & London: The Guilford Press; 1991; pp. 1-27. Berry, B. J. L., and W. Garrison. 1958. The Functional Bases of the Central Place Hierarchy. 34: 145-54. Barnes, T. J. 2001. Lives lived and lives told: biographies of geography's quantitative revolution. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19, (4): 409-29. Knox, Paul. 1994. Urban structure: The CBD, sectors, and zones. And residential . Pp. 92- 103 and 212-216 in Urbanization: An introduction to urban geography. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Basset, K. A., and John Rennie Short. 1980. The ecological tradition. Ch.2 in Housing and residential structure., 9-24. London: Routledge. Cadwallader, Martin. 1996. The model-building approach. Chapter 2 in Urban geography: An analytical approach., 21-39. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Openshaw, S. 2003. A view on the GIS crisis in geography or, using GIS to put Humpty Dumpty back again. Originally published in 1991 in Environment and Planning A, 23, 621-8. Chapter 41 in Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 675-85. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Manson, G. A., and R. E. Groop. 2000. U.S. intercounty migration in the 1990s: People and income move down the urban hierarchy. Professional Geographer 52, (3): 493-504. **SEPTEMBER 26 – NO CLASS**

Week 5 – October 3: Marxist Geography Wolff, R. D., and S. A. Resnick. 1987. Two different theories. Chapter 1 in Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical., 1-37. Baltimore/London: The John Hopkins University Press. The importance of theoretical differences. Ch.4.

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Friedman, Milton Capitalism and freedom. Introduction. Milton Friedman is one of the intellectual founders (along with Hayek and Schumpeter) of the contemporary neoliberalism rooted in neo-classical economics. Naomi Klein‟s book on disaster capitalism examines in detail Friedman‟s impact on our day neoliberal economic policies worldwide. This is from the original Milton‟s writing that brought him to fame. Engels, F. 1997. The great towns. From The conditions of the working class in England published in 1845. Cloke, Paul; Philo, Chris, and Sadler, David. Changing times and the development of Marxist approaches to human geography since the late 1960s: Still relevant and radical after all these years? Ch.2 in: Approaching Human Geography An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Debates. New York & London: The Guilford Press; 1991; pp. 28-56. Harvey, David. Social and the City. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press; 1973. Introduction and Ch. 7. Gordon, David M. Capitalist development and the history of the US cities. Vance, J. E. 1991. Human mobility and the shaping of cities. Ch.5 in Our Changing Cities. ed J. F. Hart, 67-85. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University. Harvey, D. 2003. Accumulation by dispossession. Ch. 4 in The New Imperialism. Oxford University Press. Further Reading: Smith, N. 2004. New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy. in Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe. eds N. Brenner, and N. Theodore, 80-103. Blackwell Publishing. Weber, R. 2004. Extracting value from the city: Neoliberalism and urban redevelopment. Chapter 8 in Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe. eds N. Brenner, and N. Theodore, 172-93. Blackwell Publishing. Logan, J. R., and H. L. Molotch. 1987. The city as a growth machine. From Logan, J. R., and H. L. Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: A Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Pp 50-98. Harvey, D. 2003. On the history and present condition in geography: an historical materialist manifesto. From original publication in 1984, Professional Geographer, 3, 1-11. in Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 95-107. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Smith, N. 1989. Uneven Development and Location Theory: Towards a Synthesis. in New Models in Geography. eds R. Peet, and N. Thrift, 142-62. Vol. 1. London: Unwin Hyman. Especially pp. 142-145 on critiques of location theory. Harvey, D. 1978. The urban process under capitalism: A framework for analysis. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2, (1): 101-31. Massey, D. 1985. New directions in space. Chapter 2 in Social Relations and Spatial Structures. eds D. Gregory, and J. Urry, 9-19. New York: St. Martin's Press. See

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**OCTOBER 10 – NO CLASS**

Week 6 – October 17: Humanistic Geography Cloke, Paul; Philo, Chris, and Sadler, David. 'Peopling' human geography and the development of humanistic approaches. Ch.3 in. Approaching Human Geography An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Debates. New York & London: The Guilford Press; 1991; pp. 57-92. Cloke et al. 2004, Doing ethnography in Practising Human Geography. Discussion of methodology – how it is different from the previous paradigms. Ley, David. 2003. Geography without human : A humanist critique. From the original publication "Geography without man: a humanistic critique" School of Geography research paper 24, Oxford University, 1980. Chapter 11 in Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 192-210. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Cosgrove, D. E. 1998 (1984). The idea of landscape. Chapter 2 in Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. D. E. Cosgrove, 13-38. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. Ley, D., 1974. Introduction. The Black Inner City as Frontier Outpost: Images and Behaviour of a Philadelphia Neighbourhood. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, Monograph Series No. 7 (selections –and Ch. V). Ley, D., 1974. Ch.5 Inside the outpost. In The Black Inner City as Frontier Outpost: Images and Behaviour of a Philadelphia Neighbourhood. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, Monograph Series No. 7. Johnsen, Sarah; Cloke, Paul; May, Jon. “Day centres for homeless people: spaces of care or fear?” Social & , Dec2005, Vol. 6 Issue 6, p787-811, 25p, 1 graph; DOI: 10.1080/14649360500353004; (AN 19235664) Jones, Phil. “Performing the city: a body and a bicycle take on Birmingham, UK.” Social & Cultural Geography, Dec2005, Vol. 6 Issue 6, p813-830, 18p, 1 map, 5bw; DOI: 10.1080/14649360500353046; (AN 19235667) Further Reading: Tuan, Y.-F. 2003. Space and place: Humanistic perspective. From the original 1974 publication in Progress in Geography 6, 233-46. Chapter 28 Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 444-57. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Jacqueline Brown. 2005. “Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: of Race in Black Liverpool.” Princeton University Press. Female artistic identity in place: the studio. By: Bain, Alison. Social & Cultural Geography, Jun2004, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p171-193, 23p; DOI: 10.1080/14649360410001690204; (AN 13460875)

Week 7 – October 24: Feminist Geography Midterm Questions will be posted today on Blackboard. Completed Midterm papers are due in print in class on November 7. Janice Monk, “Time, place, and the lifeworlds of feminist geographers: the US in the 1970s.,” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 17, no. 1 (February 2010): 35-42.

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Sophie Bowlby, “Beginnings: women and geography at Northwestern in the 1960s.,” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 17, no. 1 (February 2010): 31-34. McDowell, Linda. Making a : Geography, feminism and everyday life--an interview with Susan Hanson. Journal of Geography in Higher Education; 1994, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p19, 14p Monk, Janice, and Susan Hanson. 1982. On not excluding half of the human in human geography. The Professional Geographer 34, no. 1: 11-23. Excerpted version from Feminisms in geography: Rethinking space, place, and . eds Pamela Moss, and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, 33-48. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. Hanson, Susan, and Janice Monk. 2008. "On not excluding..." redux. in Feminisms in geography: Rethinking space, place, and knowledges. eds Pamela Moss, and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, 60-67. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. McDowell, Linda. 1984. Towards an Understanding of the Gender Division of Urban Space. From original publication in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 1: 59-72. chapter 11 in The spaces of postmodernity. 2002. eds Michael J. Dear, and S. Flusty, 120-126. Blackwell. Haraway, D. 2003. Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. From Simians, cyborgs and women: The reinvention of nature, 1991. Originally published in Feminist Studies, 14, 575-600, 1988. Chapter 6 Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 108-28. United Kingdom: Blackwell. de Certeau, M. 1984. Part III: Spatial practices. The Practice of Everyday Life., Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Pages 90-91 on looking at New York from the World trade center. Rose, G. 2003. Geography as a science of : The landscape, the gaze, and masculinity. From original publication in Driver, F. and Rose, G., editors, Nature and science: Essays in the histroy of geographical knowledge, Historical Geography Research Series, Number 28, pp. 8-18, 1992. Chapter 20 Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 341-50. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Katz, C. 2006. Messing with 'the Project'. Ch. 12 in : A Critical Reader. eds N. Castree, and D. Gregory, 234-46. Blackwell. Bondi, L. “Gender Divisions and Gentrification – A Critique.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16, no. 2 (1991): 190-198. Gill Valentine, “Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography,” The Professional Geographer 59, no. 1 (February 1, 2007): 10-21. Further Reading: McDowell, L., and D. Massey. 2003. A woman's place? From Geography Matters!, editors D. Massey and J. Allen, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 128-47. Chapter 29 Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 458-75. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Isabel Dyck, “Travelling tales and migratory meanings: South Asian migrant women talk of place, health and healing,” Social & Cultural Geography 7, no. 1 (2006): 1.

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Oberhauser, Ann M. 2000. Feminism and economic geography: Gendering work and working gender. Chapter 5 in A companion to economic geography. eds Eric S. Sheppard, and Trevor J. Barnes, 60-76. Blackwell. Oswin, Natalie. 2008. Critical geographies and the uses of sexuality: deconstructing queer space. Progress in Human Geography 32, no. 1: 89-103.

Week 8 – October 31: Post-Structuralist Geography Dear, M. J., and S. Flusty. 2002. Introduction: How to map a radical break. in The spaces of post- modernity: Readings in human geography. eds M. J. Dear, and S. Flusty, 1-12. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Harvey 1989 Excerpt from The Condition of post-modernity Jameson, F. 2002. Excerpt from “Postmodernism or the Cultural of Late Capitalism.” From the original 1984 publication in New Left Review 146: 53-92. in The spaces of post- modernity: Readings in human geography. eds M. J. Dear, and S. Flusty, 142-49. Oxford, UK: Blackwell publishers. Davis, M. 2000. Fortress L.A. Excerpt from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. 1990. In The City Reader. eds R. LeGates, and F. Stout, 193-96. London and New York: Routledge. Gibson-Graham, J. K. 2000. Poststructuralist interventions. Chapter 7 in A companion to economic geography. eds E. S. Sheppard, and T. J. Barnes, 95-110. Blackwell. MA Doel, “ and geography: Settling the account,” ANTIPODE 37, no. 2 (March 2005): 246-249. Foucault, M. 1997. Preface to The history of sexuality, Volume II. Essential works of Foucault 1954-1984. Volume I. : subjectivity and . ed P. Rabinow, 199-206. New York: The New Press. Foucault, M. 1988. On power. in Michael Foucault: Politics, philosophy, culture. Interviews and other writings 1977-1984. ed L. D. Kritzman, 96-109. New York and London: Routledge. Mitchell, Timothy. 2005. The work of economics: how a discipline makes its world. European Journal of Sociology 46, no. 2: 297-320. Gibson-Graham, J. K. 1996. Class and the Politics of Identity. Chapter 3 in The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy., 46-71. Basil Blackwell. Gibson-Graham. J.K. 2006 Postcapitalist Politics, Introduction. See BB/course materials/post- structuralism Further Reading: Rabinow Introduction from Critical Foucault reader. Pratt, Geraldine. Abandoned Women and Spaces of the Exception. The 2005 AAG Antipode lecture. Antipode 37, no. 5: 1052-94. Graham, J. 2002. Anti-essentialism and overdetermination. From original publication Graham, J. 1992. Anti-essentialism and overdetermination: A response to Dick Peet. Antipode 24, (2).

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Chapter 17 in The spaces of post-modernity: Readings in human geography. eds M. J. Dear, and S. Flusty, 183-92. Oxford, UK: Blackwell publishers.

Week 9 – November 7: Geospatial Technologies and the production of knowledge Midterm Papers are due today in class. Please give me a hard copy and not a digital copy.

Harley, J. B. 1989. Deconstructing the map. Cartographica 26 (2), 1-20. Crampton, J.W. and Krygier, J. (2005) An introduction to critical . ACME: An international e-journal for critical geographies 4, 11-13. Smith 1992 History and philosophy of geography: Real wars, theory wars. Schuurman, N. (2000) Trouble in the heartland: GIS and its critics in the 1990s. Progress in human geography 24, 569-590. Schuurman N, 2009, "An interview with Michael Goodchild" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27(4) 573 – 580 Elwood, Sarah. "Geographic information science: emerging research on the societal implications of the geospatial web." Progress in Human Geography 34, no. 3 (June 2010): 349-357. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed October 27, 2011). Matthew W. Wilson, Barbara S. Poore 2009 Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS: Reports on an AAG Panel Session, Panelists: Pavlovskaya, Sheppard, Schuurman, Wilson, Poore, O‟Sullivan, Kwan, Harvey. Published in Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization Volume 44, Number 1 /2009, pp. 5-16. Kwan, M.-P. (2002a) Feminist visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a method in feminist geographic research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92, 645-661. Pavlovskaya, M.E. (2006) Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies? Environment and Planning A 38, 2003-2020. St.Martin and Wing 2007 The discipline of GIS. Pavlovskaya, M. (2002) Mapping urban change and changing GIS: Other views of economic restructuring. Gender, place and culture: A journal of feminist geography 9, 281-289. Wilson M. 'Training the eye': formation of the geocoding subject. Social & Cultural Geography [serial online]. June 2011;12(4):357-376. Phil Jones and James Evans, 2011 “The spatial transcript: analysing mobilities through qualitative GIS,” Area (n.d.), Graves 2003 Landscapes of predation. Further Reading: Dobson, J.E. and Fisher, P.F., 2003. Geoslavery. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Spring, pp. 47- 52. John Goss 1995 "We Know Who You Are and We Know Where You Live": The Instrumental of Geodemographic Systems. Economic Geography, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 171-198.

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Stephen D.N. Graham, 2005. Software-sorted geographies. Progress in Humran Geography 29, 5 (2005) pp. 562-580. Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley & Andrew Warren (2010): Geographic Information Technologies for cultural research: cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies, Cultural Trends, 19:4, 325-348. Crampton 2008 Cartography Map 2.0 M. Pavlovskaya and K. St. Martin, “Feminism and geographic information systems: from a missing object to a mapping subject,” Geography Compass 1, no. 3 (2007): 583–606.

Week 10 – November 14: Space, Time and Scale Sheppard and McMaster. 2004. Scale and geographic inquiry: contrasts, intersections, and boundaries. In Scale and geographic inquiry, Sheppard and McMaster, eds. Nystuen, J. D. 2003. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts. Originally published in 1963 in Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 48: 373-84. Chapter 36 in Human geography: An essential anthology. eds J. Agnew, D. N. Livingstone, and A. Rogers, 590- 599. United Kingdom: Blackwell. Massey, D. 1985. New directions in space. Harvey, D. 2006. Space as a keyword. In Noel Castree and Derek Gregory (eds.) David Harvey: A Critical Reader Blackwell. Marston, Sallie A., John Paul Jones III, and Keith Woodward. 2005. Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30: 416-32. Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2002. “Beyond global vs local: Economic politics outside the binary frame,” in A. Herod and M. Wright (eds) Geographies of power: Placing . Placing Scale, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Neil Smith Contours of a Spatialized Politics: Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographical Scale. Social Text, No. 33 (1992), pp. 54-81 Pavlovskaya, M.E. (2004) Other transitions: Multiple economies of Moscow households in the 1990s. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94, 329-351.

Week 11 – November 21: Nature and Society Castree, Noel. “Socializing nature: Theory, practice, and politics.” Ch1. in Castree, N. & Braun, B., 2001. Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics 1st ed., Wiley-Blackwell. Castree, Noel. “Marxism, capitalism and production of nature” Ch. 10 in Castree, N. & Braun, B., 2001. Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics 1st ed., Wiley-Blackwell. Robbins. 2003. "Beyond Ground Truth: GIS and the Environmental Knowledge of Herders, Professional Foresters, and other Traditional Communities " special issue of Human Ecology 31(1) on GIS in Cultural and Political Ecology Gerda Roelvink, JK Gibson-Graham. An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene. Also watch the presentation of this paper at AAG 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5luck_gYMk, Page 11

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St. Martin, K. 2005. “Disrupting Enclosure in New England Fisheries,” Capitalism, Nature, 16(1): 63-80. Hoeschele, W., 2010. Preface and Ch.1 “The paradox of our times” In The Economics of Abundance, Gower. Further Reading: Hoeschele, W., 2010 Ch.9 “Reclaiming self-reliance and cooperation” In The Economics of Abundance, Gower. and the entire book. Bruce Braun, “Biopolitics and the molecularization of life,” Cultural Geographies 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 6 -28. Heynen, N. et al., eds. 2007. Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences 1st ed., Routledge. Castree, N. & Braun, B., 2001. Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics 1st ed., Wiley-Blackwell.

Week 12 – November 28: Post-Colonial Geographies Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossber, eds. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988). http://www.mcgill.ca/files/crclaw- discourse/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf. Dipesh Chakrabarty 2007 Provincializing Europe. Introduction. http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8507.pdf. Gilmartin, M. and Berg, L. D. (2007), Locating postcolonialism. Area, 39: 120–124. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00724.x Raghuram, P., & Madge, C. (2006). Towards a method for postcolonial ? Possibilities and challenges. Singapore Journal Of Tropical Geography, 27(3), 270-288. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00262.x Sundberg, J., 2004. “Identities-in-the-Making: Conservation, Gender, and Race in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala,” Gender, Place and Culture, 11(1), pp. 44-66. Wainwright, J. & Bryan, J., 2009. Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize. Cultural Geographies, 16(2), pp.153 - 178. Mountz, A. (2011). The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on islands. Political Geography, 30(3), 118–128. Further Reading: Timothy Mitchell. Everyday Metaphors of Power. Theory and Society, Vol. 19, No. 5. (Oct., 1990), pp. 545-577. Sidaway, J. 2007. Spaces of post-development. Progress in Human Geography June 2007 vol. 31no. 3 345-361. Radcliffe, S. A. (2005). Development and geography: towards a postcolonial development geography? Progress In Human Geography, 29(3), 291-298.

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Yapa, Lakshman. “How the Discipline of Geography Exacerbates Poverty in the Third World.” Futures: the Journal of Forecasting and Planning, Vol. 34, 2002, pp 33-46. Postcolonial Geographies. Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan (eds.), New York and London: Continuum. Arturo Escobar 2001 Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization. Political Geography, Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2001, Pages 139-174.

Week 13 – December 5: Traveling Methodologies Mattingly, D.J. & Falconer-Al-Hindi, K. (1995). Should women count? A context for the debate. Professional Geographer, 47(4), 427. Sheppard, E.S. (2001). Quantitative geography: representations, practices, and possibilities. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19, 535-554. Brown, M. and Knopp, L. (2008). Queering the map: The productive tensions of colliding epistemologies. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98, 40-58. Schwanen, T. and Kwan, M.-P. (2009). 'Doing' critical geographies with numbers. The Professional Geographer 61, 459-464. Wyly, E. (2009). Strategic positivism. The Professional Geographer 61, 310-322. Barnes, T. (2009). 'Not only... but also': Quantitative and critical geography. The Professional Geographer, 61, 292-300. Further Reading: Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (2000). What kind of economic theory for what kind of economic geography? Antipode 32, 4-9. McLafferty, S.L. (1995). Counting for women. The Professional Geographer 47, 436-442. Moss, P. (1995). Embeddedness in practice, numbers in context: The politics of knowing and doing. The Professional Geographer, 47(4), 442. Rocheleau, D. (1995). Maps, numbers, text, and context: Mixing methods in feminist political ecology. The Professional Geographer, 47(4), 458. Lawson, V. (1995). The politics of difference: Examining the quantitative/qualitative dualism in post-structuralist. Professional Geographer, 47(4), 449. Carter, P.L. (2009). Geography, race, and quantification. The Professional Geographer , 61, 465-480.

Week 14 – December 12: No readings. Paper Presentations

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