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Lehrende: Martin Valdés-Stauber
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Urban Studies
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
6,0
Hinweis: In Ihrer Prüfungsordnung können abweichende Credits festgelegt sein.
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 24
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte:
Ever since humans became sedentary their settlements are becoming more and more agglomerated. This process is usually described as urbanization. However, the distinction between cities and their environment is often blurry. Rather a multiplicity of spatial arrangements can be observed throughout history and across space. Thereby, spatial ordering is the result of social operations inscribing themselves in physical space. A prominent example therefor is gentrification: social (symbolic) distinctions alongside economic market mechanisms define the setup and ordering of urban areas. Eventually people are being crowd out from their neighborhood, while the city becomes increasingly clustered. The city is therefor the place, where a multiplicity of different encounters take place - or where mismeeting is spatially organized.
Cities and their setup are a site of struggle. For instance, the creation of public space has often been described as a democratic project. In the neoliberal city, however, public space is shrinking, becomes a commodity or becomes surveilled space (securitization of public space). As a counter development, ecological discourses on liveability and smart cities are emerging.
Social differentiation and spatial differentiation tend to mirror each other. Increasing economic inequalities within cities, within countries and across the globe are expressed by the emergence of impoverished neighborhoods (e.g. banlieue) of by the rampant growth of slums in Mega Cities. Nowadays a majority of the world`s population is living in urban agglomerations. These centers are connected among each other within circuits of exchange (information, capital, goods, people etc.) unfolding an interconnected World Society.
The seminar will be strucutred like a conference in which all of us engage:
a) The first session (teaching agreement and introductory keynote) will be devoted to clarify analytical vocabulary (e.g. space and city) and to the interconnections of economic, political, cultural and sociological perspectives in urban studies.
b) The following six sessions will be organised along different expert panels (each students presents one paper). Topics will be, for instance: 1) global cities and the unfolding geographies of world society 2) gentrification 3) ecology and liveability (green city) 4) smart cities 5) public space and its transformation (commodification, securization etc.) 6) advanced marginality 7) slums and extrem poverty 8) arrival cities (migration and agglomeration) 9) informal urbanism
+ we will also deal with how arts depict these topics (theatre, movies, literature)
c) The concluding sesstion will be held as the closing session of a conference (in which we also discuss the individual term papers, which should be based on the contributions throughout the seminar)
International Students are highly encouraged to take part in this seminar!
Lernziele:
Students learn to observe settlements intertwining different perspectives (economic, political, sociological etc.) and to analyze varying spatial orderings. Moreover, students learn to recognize the strategic use of concepts (e.g. privileged "cities" versus stigmatized "countryside", "periphery" or "banlieue"). Ultimately urbanization should be discussed in regard to globalization and the geographies of an emerging world society.
Weitere Informationen zu den Prüfungsleistungen:
Each student will contribute by presenting one text (or artwork) within a panel.These oral contributions will not be marked, however the term paper can based on them.
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