the space lab

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• 1Contemporary EgyptWeek 12 materials
  • ‘Cairo has started to become ugly’: why Egypt is building a new capital cityMichaelson, R. (2018, May 8). The Guardian.
  • Understanding Cairo: The logic of a city out of controlSims, D. (2012). Oxford University Press.
• 2Conceptualizing the Colonially Mediated Modern CityWeek 21 material
  • Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French ruleCelik, Z. (1997). University of California Press.
• 3Neoliberal UrbanismWeek 32 materials
  • Paris, capital of modernityHarvey, David. Psychology Press, 2003.
  • Tale of two cities: the origins of modern CairoAbu-Lughod, Janet. Comparative Studies in Society and History 7.4 (1965): 429-457.
• 4Neoliberal Interventions to African CitiesWeek 45 materials

  African Cities Reader III:

  • Urban Sahara from the Sky: how Global Capitalism Fixes the Dunes (Nouakchott, Muaritania)African Cities Reader III, pp 19-21.
  • High Class Shanty Towns (Dakar, Senegal)African Cities Reader III, pp 22-26.
  • This Sea Shall Be Uprooted (Lagos, Nigeria)African Cities Reader III, pp 27-35.
  • City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda: Burying the past with phantasmagorias of the future (Luanda, Angola)African Cities Reader III, pp 121-133.
  • Dispossessed Vigils: Mourning and Regeneration in Inner-City Johannesburg (Johannesburg, South Africa)African Cities Reader III, pp 134-147.
• 5Production of SpaceWeek 51 material
  • Social SpaceLefebvre, H (1991), in The Production of Space, ch. 2, pp 68-168.
• 6African UrbanismWeek 63 materials
  • Invisible Urbanism in AfricaRao, V., DeBoeck, F., and Simone, A. (2007). Perspecta, 39, 78-91.
  • Framing themes and questions for an engagement with African urbanismPieterse, E. (2009).
  • The Right to the CityHarvey, D. (2008). New Left Review 53: 23-53.
• 7Urban Lifeworlds from BelowWeek 74 materials
  • Inhabiting Ocular Ground: Kinshasa’s Future in the Light of Congo’s Spectral Urban PoliticsDeBoeck, F (2011). Cultural Anthropology, 26 (2) pp. 263-286.
  • The Bantustan Sublime: Reframing the Colonial in RamallahAbourahme, N. (2009). City, 13(4) pp. 499-509.
  • Spectral housing and urban cleansing: Notes on millennial MumbaiAppadurai, A. (2000). Public Culture, 12(3), pp. 627-651.
  • Bypassing the squalor: New towns, immaterial labour and exclusion in post-colonial urbanisationBhattacharya, R., & Sanyal, K. (2011). Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI(31), pp. 41-48.
• 8House Crisis and New LandWeek 82 materials
  • Egypt's Housing Crisis. The Shaping of Urban SpaceShawkat, Yahia, and David Sims. American University in Cairo Press, 2020.
  • Egypt's desert dreams: development or disaster?Sims, David. American University in Cairo Press, 2015.
• 9The Politics of “Informality”Week 93 materials

  Gautam Bhan’s text In the public's interest: evictions, citizenship, and inequality in contemporary Delhi. Please focus on the following chapters:

  • Introduction ‘How did we get here’Gautam Bhan, In the public's interest: evictions, citizenship, and inequality in contemporary Delhi, pp.1-43.
  • Unmaking Citizens: Spatial Illegality, Urban Citizenship and the Challenges for Inclusive Politics (Chapter 3)Gautam Bhan, In the public's interest: evictions, citizenship, and inequality in contemporary Delhi, pp. 146-187.
  • ‘You can’t Just Walk into a Court’: Notes on the Judicialisation of Resistance (Chapter 4)Gautam Bhan, In the public's interest: evictions, citizenship, and inequality in contemporary Delhi, pp. 188-232.
• 10Security and FearWeek 102 materials
  • Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence: Exploring the gender dimensionsKern, L. and Mullings, B. (2013). In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, pp. 23-40.
  • A Tale of Two Walled Cities: Neoliberalization and Enclosure in Johannesburg and JerusalemClarno, A (2008). Political Power and Social Theory, 19, pp. 159-205.
• 11InfrastructureWeek 112 materials
  • Governing three-wheeled motorcycle taxis in urban Ethiopia: States, markets, and moral discourses of infrastructureMains, D., & Kinfu, E. (2017). American Ethnologist, 44(2), 263-274.
  • The politics of open defecation: informality, body, and infrastructure in MumbaiDesai, R., McFarlane, C., & Graham, S. (2015). Antipode, 47(1), 98-120.
• 12Crisis and Urban FutureWeek 122 materials
  • Ruinous city, ruinous time: Future suspended and the science fiction of the presentAbourahme, N. (2014). City, 18(4-5), 577-582.
  • The Pandemic, Southern Urbanisms and Collective LifeGautam Bhan, Teresa Caldeira, Kelly Gillespie, and AbdouMaliq Simone (2020). Socity&Space.