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Compilation of Comprehensive Reading Lists Graduate Program in Sociology York University June 2006 Edition Compilation of Comprehensive Reading Lists Graduate Program in Sociology York University June 2006 edition TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors 3 Programme Manual Directions for Preparing a Reading List 3 Culture and Identities Cultural Studies 4 “Race” and Racism 6 Sex and Gender Systems 8 Social Psychology 11 Sociology of the City / Urban Sociology Still to come Global Sociology Citizenship Studies 13 Diaspora Studies 17 International Migration, Transnationalism, and Refugee Studies 20 Latin American and Caribbean Studies 25 Social Movements 29 Sociology of Development 32 Nature / Society / Culture Critical Sexualities 34 Environmental Sociology 37 Social Studies of Science 40 Social Studies of Technology 43 Sociology of the Life Course 46 Processes, Practices & Power Class & Structural Inequalities / Stratification 49 Criminology, Corrections and Criminalization 51 Economic Sociology 53 Health Studies 55 Historical Sociology and Social History 59 Law and Justice 61 Political Sociology 63 Social Regulation 66 Sociology of Education 68 Sociology of Work and Labour 71 Critical Social Theory Classical Theory 73 Contemporary Social Theory 75 Feminist Theory 79 Marxist Theory 86 Postcolonial Theory Still to come Social Research Methods Historical and Archival Methods 88 Qualitative Methods 90 Survey Research 92 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Gamal Abdel-Shehid (Convenor) • Aliya Amarshi (Graduate Ass’t) • Anne-Marie Ambert • Paul Anisef Elizabeth Asante • Peter Baehr (Lingnan U.) • Himani Bannerji • Barbara Beardwood • Margaret Beare • Jody Berland Greg Bird (Graduate Ass’t) • Kathy Bischoping (Organizer, Convenor) • Susan Braedley • Debi Brock (Convenor for two lists) Eduardo Canel (York U. Social Science) • Don Carveth (Convenor) • Sheila Cavanagh • Beatriz Cid • Nancy Clark Karine Côté-Boucher • Gordon Darroch • Tania Das Gupta • Shane Doheny (U. of Stirling) Carol Duncan (Wilfrid Laurier U.) • Lorna Erwin • Shelley Gavigan • Wenona Giles • Luin Goldring (Convenor) Jay Goulding (Convenor) • Andil Gosine (Convenor) • Paul Grayson (Convenor) • Adam Green (Convenor) Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Convenor) • Barbara Hanson • Matthew Hayes • Julia Hemphill Graduate Programme in History (York U.) • Sarah Hornstein (Graduate Ass’t) • Jasmin Hristov • Engin Isin (Convenor) Carl James (Convenor) • Suad Joseph (UC-Davis) • Dahlia Katz (Assistant to the Program) • Lisa Kowalchuk (U. of Guelph) Kumudu Kumara • Fuyuki Kurasawa • Sam Ladner • Peter Landstreet (Convenor) • Larry Lam Michael Lanphier • Bonita Lawrence • Jos Lennards (Convenor) • Joel Lexchin • Carla Lipsig-Mumme • Yuzhen Liu Diego Llovet • Stephen Longstaff (Convenor) • David Lumsden (Convenor) • Meg Luxton • Trish Macmillan Warren Magnusson (U. Victoria) • Peter Mallory • John Mandalios (Griffith U.) • Nancy Mandell (Convenor) • Aryn Martin Janine Marchessault • Egla Martinez • Gail McCabe • Thelma McCormack • Joseph Mensah • Minoo Moallem (SFSU) Haideh Moghissi • Radhika Mongia • Ian Morrison • Eric Mykhalovskiy (Convenor) • Janice Newson (Convenor for two lists) Michael Nijhawan • Andie Noack • Marcia Oliver • Riley Olstead • John O’Neill • Aihwa Ong (UC-Berkeley) Michael Ornstein (Convenor) • Gottfried Paasche • Mojca Pajnik (Peace Institute, Llubljana) • Kate Pendakis Martin Powell (U. of Stirling) • Anna Pratt • Althea Prince • Giovanna Procacci (U. Milan) • Norene Pupo Rebecca Raby (Brock U.) • Dennis Raphael • Ester Reiter • Karen Robson • Stuart Schoenfeld James Sheptycki (Convenor for two lists) • Brian Singer • Hira Singh (Convenor) • Penni Stewart (Convenor) Mark Thomas (Convenor for two lists) • Audrey Tokiwa (Program Assistant) • Peter Vandergeest • Yota Vassou Brenda Spotton Visano (Convenor) • Livy Visano Leah Vosko • Philip Walsh (Convenor for two lists) • Richard Weisman Lorna Weir • Gerda Wekerle • Chris Williams • James Williams • Elke Winter • Lesley Wood Program Manual Directions for Preparing a Reading List “The comprehensives are intended to prepare the student for the dissertation, to do research and to teach in a field. Outside the structure of a course, the comprehensive provides the student with the challenge of examining and synthesizing a body of theory, and usually related empirical research. Comprehensiveness in a field combines breadth, depth and synthetic ability, without necessarily entailing exhaustive knowledge of the field. Students are expected to have a broad understanding of the major theoretical perspectives in the field and key debates. In most fields, comprehensiveness also requires good knowledge of the alternative approaches to relevant empirical research, key findings and their interpretation in relation to theoretical approaches, and gaps in current research. It is the responsibility of the programme to provide a list of the acceptable comprehensive fields, updated annually, and the names of available faculty with expertise in each field. With the approval of the student’s faculty group or Supervisory Committee and the Graduate Programme Director, comprehensives may be written in fields other than those designated. Any such additional field, however, must have the same generality as the designated fields. A more specialized area is better explored as part of the student’s dissertation or other research. Students usually choose comprehensive fields in which they expect to teach, but this is not a requirement.... The student and the Comprehensive Supervisory Committee will jointly decide on a reading list for each comprehensive; for comprehensive groups this will be done collectively, but will still require student-faculty agreement. The list will be equivalent to about 25 medium-sized books, with articles counting for about one-fifth of a book. Students are encouraged to make use of reading lists from completed comprehensives, filed in the program office. Cumulatively, lists of core readings will be developed in each field, and they will be updated regularly. Students might take 15-20 readings from the core list and add 5-10 to reflect their particular interests, or find a balance that suits them and is acceptable to the faculty group or committee supporting and assessing the comprehensive.” (from 2005/2006 Program Manual, emphasis added) For more information, including the programme’s list of acceptable comprehensive field(s), which includes some for which sets of core readings are not provided here, and the names of available faculty with expertise in each field, please consult the Programme Office and/or the Program Manual. CULTURAL STUDIES READING LIST JUNE 2006 Convenor Gamal Abdel-Shehid Contributors Gamal Abdel-Shehid, Himani Bannerji, Sheila Cavanagh, Andil Gosine, Jay Goulding, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Janine Marchessault, and Brian Singer Core Readings Ahmed, Sara (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge. Baker, H. (1993). Black Studies, Rap and the Academy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Barthes, Roland (1972). Mythologies. (Annette Lavers (trans.)). New York: Hill & Wang. Benjamin, Walter (1969). Illuminations. (Harry Zohn (trans.), Hannah Arendt (ed.)). New York: Schocken Books. Creed, Barbara (1993). The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge: New York, 1993. Dent, G. (1992). Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press. Dorfman, A. and Mattelart, A. (1975). How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic. London: Int’l General. Ellison, R. (1964). Shadow and Act. New York: Vintage International. Fanon, Frantz. (1967). Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press. Gan, Dina, Hong, Terry, and Yang, Jeff (1997). Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Gilroy, P. (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Gramsci, A. (1971 [1929-1935]). Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers. Grossberg, Lawrence and Nelson, Cary (eds) (1988). Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Guha, Ranajit and Spivak, Gayatry C. (eds) (1988). Selected Subaltern Studies. New York: Oxford University Press. Halberstam, J. (2005). In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York: New York University Press. Hall, S., Morley, D. and Chen, K-H. (1996). Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London: Routledge. Hammond , A. (2005). Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. hooks, bell (1992). Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press. James, C.L.R. (1993). American Civilization. Cambridge: Blackwell. Lorde, Audre. (1984). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg: The Crossings Press. Mackey, E. (2002). The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Marx, Karl. (1996). Later Political Writings. (Carver, Terrell (ed.)) Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press. [Selection: “Introduction to the Grundrisse”.] McRobbie A. (1980). “Settling accounts with subcultures”, Screen Education 34:37-49. Mercer, Kobena (1994). Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge. Morley, D. and Robins, K. (1995). Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries. London: Routledge. Mulvey, L. (1975). “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema”, Screen 16(3):6-18. Said, Edward (1993). Culture and Imperialism. London: Alfred Knopf. Shohat, Ella and Stam, Robert (1994). Unthinking Eurocentrism:
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