Readings Response Schedule

RR 1, 2-Sep

  • Marks “Origins of the Modern World, Ch. 1-3

RR 2, 4-Sep

  • Linebaugh and Reddiker, “Hydrarchy: Sailors, Pirates, and the Maritime State”

RR 3, 9-Sep

  • Marks “Origins of the Modern World”, Ch. 4

RR 4, 11-Sep

  • Marks “Origins of the Modern World”, Ch. 5
  • Marx and Engels, “Bourgeois and Proletarians” (from The Communist Manifesto)

RR 5, 16-Sep

  • Young, “Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction”

RR 6, 18-Sep

  • Steger and Roy, “A Brief Introduction to Neoliberalism,” Ch. 1
  • David Harvey, “Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction”

RR 7, 25-Sep

  • Smith, “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as a Global Urban Strategy”

RR 8, 2-Oct

  • Film: City of God

RR 9, 7-Oct

  • Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat”
  • Engels, “The Great Towns”

RR 10, 9-Oct

  • Graham, “Ubiquitous Borders”
  • Schrader, “Policing Empire”
  • Nopper & Kaba, “Itemizing Atrocity”

[*Paper on either 1) Graham, or 2) Schrader and Nopper & Kaba]

RR 11, 21-Oct

  • Camacho, “Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Narratives of the Border Crossing”
  • Gardner, “Rumour and Myth in the Labour Camps of Qatar”

RR 12, 23-Oct

  • Film: Sleep Dealer

RR 13, 28-Oct

  • Giroux, “Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide”
  • Taibbi, “Ripping Off Young American: The College Loan Scandal”
  • Hoeller, “The WalMart-ization of High Education: How young professors are getting screwed”

[*Pick 2 for the readings response]

RR 14, 30-Oct

  • Steinbrink, “’We did the Slum!’ – Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical Perspective”
  • Hartnell, “Katrina Tourism and a Take of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans”

RR 15, 4-Nov

  • Zirin, “Brazil’s Dance with the Devil”, Introduction & Ch. 1-4

RR 16, 6-Nov

  • Zirin, “Brazil’s Dance with the Devil”, Ch. 5-7 & Conclusion

RR 17, 11-Nov

  • Featherstone, “The Rich and the Super-rich: Mobility, Consumption and Luxury Lifestyles”
  • Freeland, “The Rise of the New Global Elite”

RR 18, 13-Nov

  • Edmonds, “’The poor have the right to be beautiful’: cosmetic surgery in neoliberal Brazil”
  • Nadeem, “Fair and anxious: on mimicry and skin-lightening in India”

RR 19, 18-Nov

  • Dibbell, “The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer”
  • Nakamura, “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft”

RR 20, 20-Nov

  • Novel: For the Win

RR 21, 25-Nov

  • Kelley. “Forward,” from The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture”
  • Chang. “It’s a Hip-Hop World”
  • Adi, “Leveraging Hip Hop in U.S. Foreign Policy”

[*Pick 2 for the readings response]