Week One.  31 Aug.  Introduction and Orientation

 

 

Week Two.  7 Sept.  Episteme

 

Tsing, Anna. “The Buck, the Bull, and the Dream of the Stag: Some Unexpected Weeds of the Anthropocene.” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 42, no. 1 (June 26, 2017): 3–21.

 

Brand, Dionne.  A Map to the Door of No Return (excerpt).

 

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, 2016.  “A Structure, Not an Event”: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity

 

Land Matters Podcast: Addressing Structural Racism in Urban Planning, Lincoln Land Institute, 2021.

 

Woods, Clyde. Pages 1-39. Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta. Verso, 1998.     

 

Roy, Ananya. “Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association 71, no. 2 (2005): 147–58.

 

Recommended Readings

 

Sanderson, Eric. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. Abrams, 2009.

 

Bhandar, Brenna.  2018.  Colonial Lives of Property:  Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership.

 

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

 

Yi-Fu Tuan’s Space and Place.  University of Minnesota, 1977.   

 

Moore, Jason. "The Double Internality:  History as if Nature Matters." Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. New York: Verso, 2015.

 

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (September 8, 2012). Tuck and Yang (2012), Decolonization is not a Metaphor.

 

Myers, Natasha. “Ungrid-Able Ecologies: Decolonizing the Ecological Sensorium in a 10,000 Year-Old NaturalCultural Happening.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3, 2 (2017): 1–24.

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Week Three.  14 Sept.  Possession

 

Greer, Allan.  Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America.  The American Historical Review, 117, 2 (2012): 365–386.

 

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen.  Chapters Intro + 1.  The White Possessive:  Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty.  2015.

 

No Right to Own?: The Early Twentieth-Century "Alien Land Laws" as a Prelude to Internment, Keith Aoki.

 

Hirsch, Arnold. “With or Without Jim Crow: Black Residential Segregation in the U.S.” In Urban Policy in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Arnold Richard Hirsch and Raymond A. Mohl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

 

The House We Live In (short video on the mortgage and intergenerational wealth).

 

Butler, Judith and Athanasiou, Athena.  Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. Chapters 1+2 (pages 1-37).

 

Recommended Readings

 

Polanyi, Karl. "Habitation versus Improvement." The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1944.

 

Elkins, Caroline, and Susan Pedersen. Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century, 1–20. New York: Routledge, 2005.

 

Lumpkins, Charles, and Charles L. Lumpkins. American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics. 1st edition. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008.

 

Jones, Tiya. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones et al. New York: One World, 2021.

 

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Revised edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

 

Trounstine, Jessica. Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

 

McDonald, Michael J., and John Muldowny. TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.

 

The 98 Acres in Albany Project (on an urban renewal site and its history) 

https://98acresinalbany.wordpress.com

 

 

Week Four.  21 Sept.  Demarcation / Continental

 

Dispossessing the Wilderness: Yosemite Indians and the National Park Ideal, 1864-1930. Mark Spence.  Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 27-59.

 

Introduction: The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery. Gwen Bergner. American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.

 

Asian Reflections on the American Landscape, Report for the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Pages 27-57.

 

Masco, Joseph. "Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico." The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006.

 

Ball, Jeremy.  Chapter 4, "Little Storybook Town: Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola." In Marcelo Borges, ed. Company towns: labor, space, and power relations across time and continents.  New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.

 

Silva, Sued Ferreira da. “Brasilia, a Story Seen from the Roadside: Narratives of Landscape Transformation and the Technological Sublime.” In The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design, ed. Joseph Heathcott. New York: Routledge, 2022.

 

Recommended Readings

 

The Waterlines Project

 

Company Towns in the U.S. 1880s to 1935;  PBS interviews on Company Towns

 

The U.S. Land-Grant University System: An Overview.

 

Land Grab Universities.  Web Site.

 

Claborn, John. “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: Nature, History, and Race in Darkwater.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, ed.Greg Garrard. Oxford, 2014.

 

Akins, Damon B., and William J. Bauer, Jr. We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021.

 

Environmental Colonialism, Criminalization and Resistance: Puerto Rican Mobilizations for Environmental Justice in the 21st Century.  2014. José M. Atiles-Osoria

 

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.

 

Sayers, Daniel. A Desolate Place for a Defiant People. University Press of Florida, 2016.

Deutsch, Sarah, and Richard Etulain. Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940. University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

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Week Five.  28 Sept.  Demarcation / Transnational

 

Candiani, Vera S. "Living in a Fluid Landscape." Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2014.

 

Gillem, Mark. Chapter 7, "Rewarding Realignment: South Korea's Land Partnership Plan." America Town: Building Outposts of Empire.  University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 201-231.

 

Dolan, Catherine S. “Gender and Witchcraft in Agrarian Transition: The Case of Kenyan Horticulture.” Development and Change 33, 4 (2002): 659–81.

 

Cullather, Nick. "A Continent of Peasants." The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010.  Pp. 72-107.

 

Easterling, Keller.  "Zone."  From Extrastatecraft.  New York: Verso, 2016.

 

Recommended Readings

 

Kumar, Dharma. Colonialism, Property and the State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

 

Ghertner, D. Asher. “Lively Lands: The Spatial Reproduction Squeeze and the Failure of the Urban Imaginary.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44, no. 4 (2020): 561–81.

 

Vitz, Matthew. A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.

 

Rama, Angel. The Lettered City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

 

Nunes Silva, Carlos, ed. Urban Planning in Subsaharan Africa. New York: Routledge 2015.

 

Zeynep Çelik, Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.

 

Martin Murray, Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.

 

Mukherjee, Aditya. "Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain." Economic and Political Weekly 45, 50 (2010): 73–82.

 

Korieh, Chima. The Land Has Changed: History, Society, and Gender in Colonial Nigeria. Illustrated edition. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010.

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Week Six.  5 Oct.  Entanglements / Inheritance

 

Beckert, Sven. Introduction + Chapter 1.. Empire of Cotton:  A Global History. 2014.

 

Silkenat, David. Introduction + Chapter 1, "An Exhausted Soil." An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. 2022.  

 

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. "What White Folks Got From the Riot." The Arkansas Race Riot. Legare Street Press, 2021.

 

Kelley, Robin D. G. "The Sharecropper's Union."  Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary edition. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

 

Barnard, Timothy P. "Nature's Colony." Nature’s Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. National University of Singapore, 2017.

 

Lapatha, Joyce et al. “Living with the Dead: A Qualitative Study on the Social Well-Being of Filipino Families Living in Cemeteries in Cebu City.” Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 7, no. 1 (2019): 94–104.

 

Recommended Readings

 

W.E.B. DuBois’s Data Portraits:  Visualizing Black America.  Parts I and II.

 

Finney, Carolyn. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2014.

 

Peterson, V. Spike. A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy:  Integrating Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual Economies.  2003.   

 

Blues Epistemology: Episode 1 AND 2: https://thisisantipod.org/2019/08/19/episode-1/

             

Mapping Black Ecologies:  crdh.rrchnm.org/essays/v02-05-mapping-black-ecologies/

 

Woods, Clyde. Blues Epistemology:  Katrina’s world: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source.  New York: Verso, 2000.

 

Brockway, Lucile H. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Garden. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002.

 

Lowe, Lisa. The Intimacies of Four Continents.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

 

Aguilar, Adrian, and Clemencia Santos. “Informal Settlement Needs and Environmental Conservation in Mexico City.” Land Use Policy 28, no. 4 (2011): 649–62.

 

Sutton, Keith, and Wael Fahmi. “Cairo’s ‘Cities of the Dead’: The Myths, Problems, and Future of a Unique Squatter Settlement.” The Arab World Geographer 5, 1 (2011): 1–21.

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Week Seven.  12 Oct.  Valuation

 

Harris, Cheryl. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review 106, 8 (1993): 1707–91.

 

Vergès, Françoise. “Racial Capitalocene: Is the Anthropocene Racial?” In Futures of Black Radicalism, ed. Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin. New York: Verso, 2017. 

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3376-racial-capitalocene

 

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. "Let the Buyer Beware." Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

 

Simone, AbdouMaliq. “Urban Dwellers and the Changing City - Professor AbdouMaliq Simone - Knowledge Works.” Video recorded lecture, University of South Australia, June 13, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP4AQX31GUE.

 

Taylor, Doreceta.  Chapter 2, "Disproportionate Siting." Toxic Communities. Environment Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. New York: NYU Press, 2014.

 

Halprin, Orit et al. "Test-Bed Urbanism." Public Culture 25, 2 (2013): 273-306.

 

Recommended Readings

 

Pattillo, Mary. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race And Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

 

Rector, Josiah. Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit. Chapel HIll, NC: UNC Press Books, 2022.

 

Satter, Beryl. Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America. First edition. New York: Picador, 2010.

 

Mathur, Anuradha and Dilip Da Cunha. Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary. Rupa & Co, 2009.

 

Sassen, Saskia. Expulsions:  Brutality and Complexity in a Global Economy.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

 

Taylor, Dorceta. The Environment and​​ the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s, 2009. 

 

Weinstein, Liza. The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

 

Schwab, Eva. Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellin. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2018.

 

 

Week Eight.  19 Oct.  Repair

 

Treuer, David. “Return the National Parks to the Tribes.” The Atlantic, April 12, 2021.

 

Kelley, Robin D. G. “A Day of Reckoning”:  Dreams of Reparations, from Freedom Dreams. 2002.

 

Fairhead, James, and Melissa Leach. "Introduction." Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

 

Glave, Dianne. "Women and Gardening." Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2010.

 

Anderson, Elsa and Emily Minor. “Vacant Lots: An Underexplored Resource for Ecological and Social Benefits.” Urban Forestry & Greening 21 (2017): 146–52.

 

Flores Hernandez, Luis. “Revisiting the Mexican Ejido.” In Communities, Land, and Social Innovation, 181–94. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2020.

 

Recommended Readings

 

Principles of Earth Democracy + Living Economies (Intro and Chapter 1), from Earth Democracy, 2015. Vandana Shiva.

 

“Letter to John Gerassi” - George Jackson, 1971

 

“Black Commune in Focus” - Harry Quintana & Charles Jones, 1969: https://www.mediafire.com/file/i9go66fckomd1ae/theblackcommune.pdf/file

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Kom’boa Ervin, Lorenzo. The Commune: Community Control of the Black Community, 1993. http://blackautonomyfederation.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-commune.html

 

Land and sea management among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

https://www.seraustralasia.com/standards/egindigenous.html

 

FILM: Earth Wisdom for a World in Crisis

 

FILM SERIES: Standing on Sacred Ground

 

Gammell, Carrie, and Samuel Maddox. “Seeking Landed Security in (De)Industrialized Detroit and (Post)Colonial Mexican Ejidos.” Critical Planning 25, no. 0 (2022).

 

Making Livable Worlds:  Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice. 2021. Hilda llorens. Read Introduction and Chapter 1.

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Week Nine.  26 Oct.  Studio

 

Debriefing, wrapping up reading portion of the course.  Brainstorming projects.

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Week Ten.  2 Nov.  Studio

 

Students discuss their ideas in small groups, generate mutual interests and intellectual affinities.

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Week Eleven.  9 Nov.  Studio

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Brief case study: Community Land Trusts (Mia White)

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An Overview of Community Land Trusts, from Community Wealth.

 

Shepard, Cassim. “Land Power.” Places Journal, July 26, 2022.

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Students work on projects for remainder of class time, consult with instructors and each other.

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Week Twelve.  16 Nov.  Studio

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Brief case study: The Three Cities Project (Cédric Gottfried and Joseph Heathcott)

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Students can select blog posts to read from the Three Cities Project web site

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Students work on projects for remainder of class time, consult with instructors and each other.

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Week Thriteen.  23 Nov.  Thanksgiving, no class meeting
 

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Week Fourteen.  30 Nov.  Studio

 

Brief case study: Narrative and Critical Cartographies (Victor Cano Ciborro)

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“Cartographies of Gang Urbanism: La Haine.” PhD CULT: Ongoing Research in Advanced Architectural Design.
 

 "Escape from Auschwitz." LOBBY No.5, Published by: The Bartlett School of Architecture.

"Modern Fictions. Subaltern Realities. A Sensitive Cartography of Tensta’s Housing." Displacements: An X’SCAPE Journal.

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Students work on projects for remainder of class time, consult with instructors and each other.

 

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Week Fifteen.  7 Dec.  Studio

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Students work on projects, consult with instructors and each other. 

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First group of presentations.

 

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Week Sixteen. 14 Dec.  Studio

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Second group of presentations.

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Debriefing and celebration!