David Harvey: the Condition of Postmodernity

Breadth Exam Reading List Proposal: Space, Place and Globalization

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Appiah, Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W.W.

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Baudrillard, Jean. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. Bloomington: Indiana University

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Beck, Ulrich. World Risk Society. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1999.

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Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.

Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York:

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Escobar, Arturo. "Culture Sits in Places: Reflections on Globalism and Subaltern

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García Canclini, Néstor. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving

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Giddens, Anthony. The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy. Malden, Mass:

Polity Press, 1999.

Glissant, Édouard, and J. Michael Dash. Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays.

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Habermas, Jürgen, and Max Pensky. The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays.

Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural

Change. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989.

Harvey, David. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Cambridge, Mass:

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Heise, Ursula K. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of

the Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House,

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Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Post-

contemporary interventions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.

Langston, Nancy. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES. New

Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, OX, UK: Blackwell, 1991.

Pratt, Geraldine. "Geographies of Identity and Difference: Marking Boundaries." Human

Geography Today. Eds. Doreen Massey, John Allen, and Phil Sarre. Oxford: Polity Press, 1998.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zone.” Profession 91. New York: MLA, 1991.

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Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People

and Money. New York: New Press, 1998.

Smith, Neil. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. New

York, NY: Blackwell, 1984.

Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social

Theory. London: Verso, 1989.

Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the

Environment. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1997.

Tuan, Yi-fu. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham:

Duke University Press, 2004.

Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. New York: Oxford University Press,

1973.

Williams, Raymond. Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays. London:

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