Breadth Exam Reading List Proposal: Space, Place and Globalization
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. London: Verso, 2003.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Appiah, Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W.W.
Norton & Co, 2006.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1994.
Baudrillard, Jean. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1995.
Beck, Ulrich. World Risk Society. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1999.
Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.
Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York:
Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Escobar, Arturo. "Culture Sits in Places: Reflections on Globalism and Subaltern
Strategies of Localization." Political Geography. 20. 2 (2001): 139.
García Canclini, Néstor. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving
Modernity. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
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.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.
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:
Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
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,
1961.
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.
33-40.
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:
Verso, 1980.