Cities in the Global Context
Spring 2018
Wednesday: 4:30-6:30
INTL 3200
Instructor: Berna Turam
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Office hours: Wednesday, 3:30-4:30, and by appointment (email please)
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Although cities have historically been associated with human emancipation in classical theories, most recently the affinities between urban space and democratic liberties have largely been neglected. Modern cities came largely to be regarded as spheres where economic inequalities andcultural differences that lead to ghettoization and exclusion become most visible.
Accordingly, a major locus of our analysis will be contested urban space. In which ways do these contested urban areas negotiate, and help to (re)form the principles and conducts of democratic liberties, rights andinclusion? How do cities contribute to the advancement of deeper democracies, when states and nations in both global South and North are increasingly polarized between defenders of authoritarian exclusion and advocates of democratic inclusion?
The course is designed as a seminar that has two major agendas. First, we will establish the link between cities and freedom. Under which conditions and in which ways do cities take on the role defending and advancing democratic liberties? How does urban space emancipate repressed and excluded populations under authoritarian regimes and/or conservative governments? Second, we will explore the role of cities in shaping perception and experience of fear and safety. Focusing particularly on the concept of “sanctuary cities” in a global context, we will examine how cities shape the perception and experience of (un)safety of vulnerable populations and people at risk.
Course Requirements
Attendance and participation: %20
Reflection paper and presentation: %20
Final Paper: %40
Final Presentation: %20
Reading List
Books
Walter Nicholls and Justus Uitermark. 2017. Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France and Netherlands 1970-2015. Wiley Blackwell.
Berna Turam. 2015. Gaining Freedoms, Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin. Stanford University Press.
J. Bagelman. Sanctuary City: A Suspended State
Course Schedule:
Cities and Democracy
Jan 10: Introduction and Syllabus
Jan 17: Global Urban Politics
Mustafa Dikeç and Erik Swyngedouw. 2017. “Theorizing the Politicizing City”International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,vol 41(1)
Berna Turam. 2017. Introduction, to Gaining Freedoms, Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin. Stanford University Press
Jan 24: The Resistance
SasskiaSassen. 2011. The Global Street.
Sinan Erensü and OzanKaraman. 2017. “The Work of a Few Trees: Gezi, Politics and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,vol 41(1)
Screening
Jan 31: Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Space
Berna Turam. 2015. Gaining Freedoms, Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin. Stanford University Press, Part 1 and Part 2
Feb 7: Social Mixing and Integration
Berna Turam. 2015. Gaining Freedoms, Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin. Stanford University Press, Part 3
Uitermark, J. (2014) “Integration and Control: The Governing of Urban Marginality in Western Europe,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38 (4), 1418–1436
Uitermark, J. 2003 ‘Social mixing’ and the management of disadvantaged neighbourhoods: the Dutch policy” of urban restructuring revisited. Urban Studies 40.3,
Feb 14: The Turkish Case
Berna Turam. 2012. “Turkey under the JDP: Are Civil Liberties Safe?,” Journal of Democracy, 23(1).
AyseCavdar. 2016. “Building, Marketing and Living in an Islamic Gated Community: Novel Configurations of Class and Religion in Istanbul”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,vol 40 (3)
Forthcoming. The Ambivalent Nature of Neoliberal Urban Transformation: Uncomfortable Geographic Encounters and Right to the City in an Istanbul Neighborhood ,International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Cities as Sanctuaries for Immigrants: (Un)Safe Places
Feb 21: Immigrant Activism
Walter Nicholls and Justus Uitermark. 2017. Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France and Netherlands 1970-2015. Wiley Blackwell.
Feb 28: Sanctuary Cities
J. Bagelman. Sanctuary City: A Suspended State
Spring Break: March 3-11
March 14: The Case of the USA
Jennifer Ridgley (2013) "Cities of Refuge: Immigration office, police, and the insurgent geneologies of citizenship in U.S. sanctuary cities"
J. Ridgley. 2013. The city as a Sanctuary in the United States, Lippert and Rahaag (eds) Cities in International Perspective: Migration, Citizenship and Movements, ch, 15
Mancina, Peter. 2013. “The birth of a sanctuary city: A history of governmental sanctuary in San Francisco”, Lippert and Rahaag.(eds) Cities in International Perspective: Migration, Citizenship and Movements,ch 14
March 21:Sanctuary cities in International Perspective 1
Harald Bauder. 2017. “Sanctuary Cities: Policies and Practices in International Perspective.” International Migration Vol. 55 (2) 2017, pp. 174-187
McDonald, Jean. 2012. “Building a sanctuary city: Municipal migrant rights in the city of Toronto” In Citizenship, migrant activism and the politics of movement. Eds. Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel
Julie E. Young. 2013. Seeking Sanctuary in a Border City: Sanctuary Movements across Canada-US border, Lippert and Rahaag. (eds) Cities in International Perspective: Migration, Citizenship and Movements,ch 16
March 28: Sanctuary Cities in International Perspective II
MirjamLewek. 2016. Spaces of Fear and their Exclusionary Consequences: Narratives and Everyday Routines of Sub-Saharan Immigrants in Berlin, in TaljaBlokland et al. Creating the Unequal City: The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin
Daniela Kruger .2016. The Space as Sanctuary: Finding Social Recognition among Urban Poor, in TaljaBlokland et al. Creating the Unequal City: The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin
Michael Innes. 2013. Framing Military Sanctuary Practices in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001-11, Lippert and Rahaag.(eds) Cities in International Perspective: Migration, Citizenship and Movements
April 4. 11, 18: Presentations
FINAL PAPERS DUE APRIL20