Tuesday, Oct. 7

Topics: Slums

Read:

• Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” New Left Review 26, March/April 2004. [DOWNLOAD]
• Friedrich Engels, “The Great Towns” from Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)

Thursday, Oct. 9

Topics: militarization of urban spaces; militarization of US police

Read:

• Stephen Graham, Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism (2010); Ch. 4 [Download]
• Stuart Schrader, “Policing Empire,” Jacobin, Sept. 5, 2014.
• Tamara K. Nopper & Mariame Kaba, “Itemizing Atrocity,” Jacobin, Aug. 15, 2014.

Recommended:

• Mapping the Spread of Military Surplus Gear, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2014.
• The Black Panther Party’s 10 Point Program (1966)