Revised 30 Aug 2011 Geography 5152 – History and Theory of Geography
Fall 2011
Wednesdays 4-6:50p
Guggenheim 201E
Professor Joe Bryan
[email protected]
Office: Guggenheim 102c
Office Hours: Thursday, 1-3 or by appointment
Overview
What is geography? And what is it that geographers do? How is it that people who study, say, fossil palynology and ethnic conflict are in the same discipline? The short answer to all three questions is that everything depends on what geographers do. That includes you, the aspiring geographer. This class is designed to help you with that task by giving you a broad introduction to the themes and concepts that have concerned geographers historically. As you might have guessed, one thing that this course will not do is try to define geography as a discipline. Instead it will give you an idea of how it has come to be by way of helping you learn to think like a geographer about your own interests. Course design: A Keywords Approach
This course is designed around a “key words” approach. Instead of defining concepts or terms, a key word approach is designed to simultaneously identify terms used throughout geography (e.g. space) with a sense of how they are interpreted and used in very different ways. It combines an approach to specific meanings of concepts with an attention to how they help define geography as field of study. It is designed to give you a vocabulary rather than provide you with a dictionary or encyclopedia of the field, much less a singular history of the field. Instead, this course is designed to provide you with a genealogy of the field, tracing how its constitutive concepts have been interpreted and re-­‐interpreted over time, continually (re)producing concepts and ideas according to the varying interpretations of what it means to do geography. It is an approach aimed not only at helping you situate your research in relationship to the field of geography; it also aims to help you think through the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of your work. Goals
Since this course concerns what geographers do, it is invariably human. That is not to say that this course is not concerned with the physical world, much less different techniques for measuring and making sense of it. But the emphasis throughout the course will be on understanding how different people at different times and places have attempted to do such work in very different ways. The goals of the course are thus as follows: 1) Introduce you to themes and approaches to geographical research, 1
Revised 30 Aug 2011 2) Develop your ability to communicate your research to other geographers, regardless of their training, 3) Develop professional skills relevant to your career as a scholar, 4) Introduce you to ethical concerns regarding research, and 5) Develop a sense of collegiality among your cohort. Course structure: Part I of the course, “Introductions,” presents the varying ways in which people have sought to define the field, tell its history, and reproduce it. The bulk of the course, Part II “Key Concepts”, is devoted to introducing you to key concepts in geography through the key words approach described above. The readings for each week pairs an overview of a concept with a mix of historical and contemporary articles aimed at expanding your understanding of the key word discussed. Part III, “Practicing Geography,” considers applications of key concepts and ideas introduced in Part II. This course is designed as a seminar. In order for it to work as a class, you will need to do all the readings each week and come to class prepared to discuss them. We will begin each class meetings with a student-­‐led discussion of the preceding week’s colloquium, followed by an introduction of the week’s readings by one of you. Following the break we will resume our conversation before concluding with a brief introduction of the readings for the following week. Texts: Required texts: 1) Nicholas J. Clifford, Sarah l. Holloway, Stephen P. Rice, and Gill Valentine. 2009. Key Concepts in Geography, 2nd Edition. London, SAGE Publications. (KCG) Copies of KCG are widely available on-­‐line. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café has a number of copies available as well. They are located on The Hill at on the corner of 13th and Pennsylvania across from The Sink. 2) All other readings will be available as pdfs from the course website (link TBD). You are expected to read all assigned readings. You are strongly encouraged to do some of the “additional readings” according to your interests. There are more readings listed in the appended bibliography. Additional texts: You are strongly encouraged to consult one or more these works during the course of the semester. A complete bibliography will be posted on the course website. Overviews of the field: - N. Castree, A. Rodgers, and D. Sherman, eds. 2005. Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates. Wiley Blackwell; Malden, MA. - G. Gaile and C. Willmott, eds. 2006. Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York. - D. Livingstone. 1994. The Geographical Tradition. Blackwell: Malden, MA. Human Geography 2
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J. Agnew, D. Livingstone, and A. Rodgers, eds. 1996. Human Geography: An Essential Anthology. Wiley-­‐Blackwell: Malden, MA. D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, and S. Whatmore, eds. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition. Wiley-­‐Blackwell; Malden, MA. G. Henderson and M. Waterstone. Geographic Thought: A Praxis Perspective. Routledge: London and New York. 2009. R. J. Johnston and J. Sidaway. 2004. Geography and Geographers: Anglo-­‐American Human Geography since 1945, 6th Edition. Hodder Arnold: London and New York. Physical Geography - R. Inkpen. 2004. Science, Philosophy, and Physical Geography. Routledge: London and New York. - K.J. Gregory. 2000. The Changing Nature of Physical Geography. Hodder Arnold: London and New York. - M. Lomolino, D. Sax, and J. Brown, eds. 2004. Foundations of Biogeography. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago. GIS/Mapping - J. Crampton. 2010. Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS. Wiley-­‐
Blackwell: Malden, MA. - D. Wood. 2010. Rethinking The Power of Maps. Guilford: New York. - M. Monmonier. 1996. How to Lie with Maps. University of Chicago: Chicago. - J. Krygier and D. Wood. 2005. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. Guilford: New York. - J. B. Harley. 2002. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Johns Hopkins: Baltimore, MD. - R. B. McMaster and E. L. Usery, eds. 2005. A research agenda for geographic information science. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Websites This course will have two websites: a course homepage and a Google groups site. Use the course homepage to get assigned readings. Use the Google groups site for posting commentaries and responses. Assignments 1) Attend all department colloquia for the semester. During the course of the semester, you will be required to prepare a short presentation with one other student summarizing the previous week’s colloquia. Your summary should include a) a brief synopsis of the main argument, b) description of the methods used, c) identification of how it relates to geography as a field and d) most importantly, your analysis of the presentation. Your summary is worth 10% of your final grade. 2) Write one commentary introducing the week’s readings. You will be responsible for writing up a short analytical introduction of the readings for one class during the semester. Commentaries should be between 1200 and 1500 words total. In your work, you should analyze the readings in light of the theme or concept for that week’s readings, enumerate their differences and convergences in approaches, and identify a 3
Revised 30 Aug 2011 set of questions that will be used to organize a portion of the class. Commentaries must be posted to the class Google groups site by 4pm on the Tuesday prior to the class meeting where the readings will be discussed. Commentaries are worth 10% of your final grade. Students turning in collaborative pieces will receive the same grade. 3) Write a commentary on research ethics. During the course of the semester, you will need to write one commentary on an issue related to research ethics in your particular area of interest. As far as subject matter is concerned, you are free to pick anything that seems relevant to your work or field of interest. One strategy you may consider is to pick a particular controversy involving professional ethics. Another would be to interview an advisor, professor, or fellow grad student about an issue that they have been involved with. Your commentary should briefly state the pertinent information about your issue, highlight the ethical questions raised by it, discuss its relevance to your field of interest, and present your informed opinion about the matter. Your commentary should be between 1200 and 1500 words and must be posted to the course Google Group any time before November 18 (the last day before Fall Break). Class on November 30 will be devoted to a discussion of these commentaries. To get started you should consult the AAG’s Statement of Professional Ethics. 4) Write a “progress report” for your particular area of interest. The goal of this assignment is to help you situate your particular area of research in relation to the field of geography. This report should: a. summarize the latest developments in your particular field of study (i.e. geomorphology, political ecology, etc.) b. describe how those developments engage with and advance key concepts and debates in geography as discussed in class materials, and c. identify key questions or areas for future research. Progress reports should be 15-­‐20 pages long (excluding bibliography), double-­‐spaced, in 12 point font, and with the pages numbered. You should use a reference style appropriate for a journal in your field. Regardless of the style you use, please include a bibliography. This should be an assignment that will be useful to you for literature reviews, proposals, etc. that you will be writing further along in your studies. Similar kinds of progress reports are published in the journals Progress in Human Geography and Progress in Physical Geography. You may wish to consult those journals for examples. It is strongly recommended that you speak with your advisor if you have questions about what topic to work on, the relevant literature, etc. You are also expected to work with a partner on developing your paper. You should exchange drafts by October 26 and return comments by November 2. A hard copy of your progress report is due in my faculty mailbox by 12pm (noon) on November 18. The progress report is worth 30% of your final grade. 5) Write a research prospectus. The goal of this assignment is to give you your first effort at writing up an overview of your research project appropriate to your level of study (M.A. or Ph.D.). In it, you should state the problem/hypothesis/question that you will be researching, describe the methods you will use, and discuss how your work speaks to debates and research in the discipline. At a minimum, it should contain the following: a. Working title that describes as precisely as possible your topic 4
Revised 30 Aug 2011 b. Background on the that topic, including a short summary of the literature and previous research that your work will draw upon c. Discussion of your particular project, including methods d. Working bibliography During class on November 2, you will be asked to work with a partner on this project. It is your responsibility to get your partner a draft of your paper by November 30. Your partner will then give you comments/feedback on your proposal by December 7. You will also be expected to give a short 5-­‐minute presentation of your prospectus during the final class. A final version, in hardcopy, is due in my faculty mailbox by 12pm (noon) on December 14. The research prospectus is worth 30% of your final grade. Note that I will not accept late papers. Grading Your final grade in the course will be determined as follows: Colloquia presentation 10% Commentary 10% Ethics commentary 10% Progress report 30% Research prospectus 30% Participation 10% For written assignments, I will use the following rubric: 1) clarity of your argument/review; is your argument understandable? well organized? well written? 2) content -­‐-­‐ does your review of the literature match up the research interests that you describe? Do you draw connections between your subfield and larger concerns in geography? 3) mechanics -­‐-­‐ grammar, spelling, citations, bibliography, pagination, etc. Your participation grade will be based on your regular attendance to all seminar meetings, participation in class discussions, and general level of engagement with the course. Expectations 1. You are expected to attend all seminar meetings, unless previously discussed with me, do all assigned readings, and come to class prepared to discuss assigned materials. 2. You must show up on time for class meetings and stay until the end of class. 3. Please turn off all cell phones before entering class. 4. You are also expected to conduct your self in a respectful manner. You may disagree or even take offense to points of view expressed in readings, films, class discussions, and other course materials. Whatever your reaction, you need to remember that those perspectives are being expressed by thoughtful people like yourself and need to be engaged with respectfully. 5. Any exceptions must be cleared with me IN ADVANCE. Course Schedule – Overview I. Introductions Theme Assignments Week 1 (Aug. 24) Introductions Week 2 (Aug. 31) Interpreting the field 5
Revised 30 Aug 2011 Week 3 (Sept. 7) II. Key Concepts Week 4 (Sept. 14) Week 5 (Sept. 21) Week 6 (Sept. 28) Week 7 (Oct. 5) Week 8 (Oct. 12) Week 9 (Oct. 19) III. Practicing Geography Week 10 (Oct. 26) Paradigms and Methods Space Time Place Race Scale & Systems Nature Maps Week 11 (Nov. 2) Week 12 (Nov. 9) Week 13 (Nov. 16) Globalization and Development Geopolitics and Security Climate Change Week 14 (Nov. 30) Week 15 (Dec. 7) Week 16 -­‐-­‐ Exams (Dec. 14) FALL BREAK Policy and Ethics Future directions? Draft of progress reports to partner Return comments to partner Progress reports due, Nov. 19, 12p Draft of prospectus to partner Return comments to partner Research Prospectus due, Dec. 15, 12p 6
Revised 30 Aug 2011 Course Schedule – detailed I. Introductions Week 1, August 24 – Introductions 1) Carl O. Sauer, "The Education of a Geographer." Reprinted from The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 46 (1956): 287-­‐99. 2) Peter Kropotkin, “What geography ought to be.” 1885. Week 2, August 31 – Interpreting the field: Historical geographies of the discipline 1) KCG, pp.1-­‐82 2) David Livingstone. 1992. “Should the history of geography be x-­‐rated? telling geography’s story.” In The Geographical Tradition. Malden, MA: Blackwell. pp. 1-­‐31. 3) Noel Castree. 2005. “Is Geography a Science?” In N. Castree, A. Rodgers, and D. Sherman, eds. Questioning Geography. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 57-­‐79. 4) Stephen Harrison, Doreen Massey, Keith Richards, Francis J. Magilligan, Nigel Thrift, and Barbara Bender. 2004. “Thinking across the divide: perspectives on the conversations between physical and human geography.” Area 36(4), 435-­‐442. Additional Reading: 5) David Harvey, "On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto," Professional Geographer, Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 1984): 1-­‐11. 6) Laura Pulido, “Reflections on a white discipline.” The Professional Geographer 54(1): 42-­‐
49. 7) Mona Domosh, 1991. “Toward a feminist historiography of geography.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 16:95-­‐104. 8) Richard Aspinall. 2010. “A Century of Physical Geography Research in the Annals.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100(5), 1049-­‐1059. 9) Ronald Johnston and James Sidaway. 2004. “The trans-­‐Atlantic connection: ‘Anglo-­‐
American’ geography reconsidered.” GeoJournal 59 (1), 15-­‐22. Week 3, September 7 – Paradigms and Methods 10) John Pickles and Michael Watts. 1992. “Paradigms for Inquiry?” in Geography’s Inner Worlds: Pervasive Themes in Contemporary American Geography, pp. 301-­‐325. Abler, Marcus, and Olson, eds. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ. 11) John Pickles. 1997. “Tool or science? GIS, technoscience, and the theoretical turn.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(2), 363-­‐372. 12) Dawn J. Wright, Michael F. Goodchild, M.F., and James D. Proctor. 1997. “GIS: Tool or science.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(2), 346-­‐362. 13) Nicholas J. Clifford. 2001. “Editorial: Physical geography-­‐-­‐the naughty world revisited”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26(4), 387-­‐389. 14) James D. Brown. 2004. Knowledge, uncertainty and physical geography: towards the development of methodologies for questioning belief. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29(3), 367-­‐381. Additional Reading: 15) Thomas Kuhn, 1996 (1964). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The Univesity of Chicago Press: Chicago. 16) Bruce L. Rhoads, 1999. Beyond pragmatism: The value of philosophical discourse for 7
Revised 30 Aug 2011 physical geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (4), 760-­‐771. II. Key Concepts Week 4, September 14 – Space 1) KCG, 85-­‐118 2) David Harvey, 2006. “Space as a keyword.” In Castree and Gregory, eds. David Harvey: A Critical Reader. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 270-­‐293. 3) Fred K. Schaefer, 1953. “Exceptionalism in geography: A methodological examination.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 43 (3), 226-­‐249. 4) R. Hartshorne, 1958. “The concept of geography as a science of space, from Kant and Humboldt to Hettner.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 48 (2), 97-­‐
108. 5) William Bunge. 1962. Theoretical Geography (excerpt). Lund Studies in Geography Series C: General and Mathematical Geography. Lund, Sweden: Gleerup. Additional Reading: 1) Mike Crang and Nigel J. Thrift. 2000. Thinking Space. Routledge, New York. 2) Antonio Gramsci. 1971. Selections From the Prison Notebooks. International Publishers, New York. Pp. 447-­‐448. 3) Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Valentine, G. 2004. Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Sage Publications Ltd, Thousand Oaks, CA. 4) Henri Lefebvre. 1991. The Production of Space. Blackwell, Oxford. 5) Chris Philo, 2000. The birth of the clinic: an unknown work of medical geography. Area 32 (1), 11-­‐19. 6) Edward Said. Orientalism, 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Vintage Books. Pp. 1-­‐9, 49-­‐73. Week 5, September 21 –Time 1) KCG, pp. 119-­‐152 2) David R. Stoddart, "Darwin's Impact on Geography," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 56 (Dec., 1966): 683-­‐698. 3) Halford Mackinder. 1996 (1904). “The Geographical Pivot of History.” In J. Agnew, et al., eds. Human Geography: an essential anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. 536-­‐551. 4) Friedrich Ratzel. 1996 (1896). “The Territorial Growth of States.” In J. Agnew, et al., eds. Human Geography: an essential anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. 525-­‐535. 5) D. Brunsden and J. B. Thornes, 1979. “Landscape Sensitivity and Change” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 4(4), pp. 463-­‐484. Additional Reading: 1) Cole Harris. 1991. “Power, modernity, and historical geography.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 81(4): 671-­‐683. 2) Alan Pred. 1977. “The choreography of existence: comments on Hägerstrand's time-­‐
geography and its usefulness.” Economic Geography 53(2): 207-­‐221. 3) E.P. Thompson. 1967. “Time, work-­‐discipline, and industrial capitalism.” Past & Present 38(1): 56-­‐97. Week 6, September 28 – Place 8
Revised 30 Aug 2011 1) KCG, 153-­‐198 2) Yi-­‐Fu Tuan. “Space and place: a humanistic perspective” (1974). In Agnew, J. et al., eds. Human Geography: an essential anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 444-­‐457. 3) Richard Peet, 1985. The social origins of environmental determinism. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75 (3), 309-­‐333. 4) Doreen Massey, 1994 (1991). “A Global Sense of Place.” In Space, Place, Gender. Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 146-­‐156. 5) J. D. Phillips, 2001. “Human impacts on the environment; unpredictability and the primacy of place.” Physical Geography, 22, pp. 321-­‐332. Additional Reading: 6) S. Cummins, S. Curtis, A.V. Diez-­‐Roux, and S. Macintyre, 2007. Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach. Social Science and Medicine 65 (9), 1825-­‐1838. 7) Keith Basso, 1996. “Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape.” In Feld and Basso, eds. Senses of Place. Santa Fe, NM, School of American Research, pp. 53-­‐90. 8) Donna Haraway. 1988. “Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective.” Feminist studies 14(3): 575-­‐599. Week 7, October 5 – Race with Prof. Audrey Kobayashi, Queen’s University and President of the AAG 1) Audrey Kobayashi and Linda Peake. 2000. “Racism out of place: thoughts on whiteness and an antiracist geography in the new millennium.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90(2): 392-­‐403. 2) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 2002. “Fatal couplings of power and difference: Notes on racism and geography.” The Professional Geographer 54(1), 15-­‐24. 3) Laura Pulido. 2002. “Reflections on a white discipline.” The Professional Geographer 54(1): 42-­‐49. Additional readings: Environmental determinism? Old and New takes 1) Ellen Churchill Semple, 1901. The Anglo-­‐Saxons of the Kentucky mountains: A study in anthropogeography. Geographical Journal 17 (6), 588-­‐623. 2) Jared Diamond, 1974. “Colonization of exploded volcanic islands by birds: the supertramp strategy. Science 184 (4138), 803-­‐806. 3) Jared Diamond, 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, Norton, pp. 13-­‐32 (Prologue, “Yali’s Question) and pp. 403-­‐426 (Epilogue, “The Future of Human History as Science”). 4) James Blaut. 1999. “Environmentalism and Eurocentrism: a review essay.” The Geographical Review, 89: 391-­‐408. Week 8, October 12 – Scale & Systems 1) KCG, 199-­‐250 & 251-­‐299 2) Bruno Latour. 1999. “Circulating Reference.” In Pandora’s hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 24-­‐79 (Chapter 2). 9
Revised 30 Aug 2011 3) J.A. Wiens, and B.T. Milne, 1989. Scaling of ‘landscapes in landscape ecology, or, landscape ecology from a beetle's perspective. Landscape Ecology 3 (2), 87-­‐96. 4) T. P. Burt and G. Pinay, 2005. “Linking hydrology and biogeochemistry in complex landscapes” Progress in Physical Geography 29(3): 297-­‐316. Additional Readings: More General Overview: 5) Robert B. McMaster and Eric Sheppard. 2004. “Introduction: scale and geographic inquiry.” In Sheppard and McMaster, eds. Scale and Geographic Inquiry, Blackwell, Malden, MA. Pp. 1-­‐22. Earth System Science? 6) A.J. Pitman. 2005. “On the role of Geography in Earth System Science.” Geoforum, 36: 137-­‐148. 7) Ron Johnston. 2005. “Geography (and geographers) and earth system science. Geoforum, 37:7-­‐11. 8) Paola, C., Foufoula-­‐Georgiou, E., Dietrich, W.E., Hondzo, M., Mohrig, D., Parker, G., Power, M.E., Rodriguez-­‐Iturbe, I., Voller, V., and Wilcock, P., 2006. “Toward a unified science of the Earth's surface: Opportunities for synthesis among hydrology, geomorphology, geochemistry, and ecology.” Water Resources Research, 42(3), 3. Approaches in Human Geography 9) Neil Smith, 1992. Contours of a spatialized politics: homeless vehicles and the production of geographical scale. Social Text, 55-­‐81. 10) Sallie A. Marston, J.P. Jones III, and Keith Woodward. 2005. “Human geography without scale.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 (4), 416-­‐432 Week 9, October 19 -­‐-­‐ Nature 1) KCG, 285-­‐330 2) Raymond Williams, “Nature.” In Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society, revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 219-­‐224. 3) Clarence Glacken. Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Preface, pp. vii-­‐xii, 1967. Excerpted in Agnew, J. et al., eds. Human Geography: an essential anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. 246-­‐251. 4) Watts, M. “Nature:Culture,” In Cloke and Johnston, eds. Spaces of geographical thought. London: Sage, 2005, pp. 142-­‐174. 5) William Cronon. 1996. “The Trouble with Wilderness.” In W. Cronon, ed. Uncommon Ground: rethinking the human place in nature. New York: W.W. Norton. Pp. 69-­‐90. Week 10, October 26 – Maps 1) Jeremy Crampton, 2001. “Maps as social constructions: power, communication and visualization.” Progress in Human Geography 25 (2), 235-­‐252. 2) J.K. Wright, 1942. “Map makers are human: Comments on the subjective in maps.” Geographical Review 32(4), 527-­‐544. 3) J.B. Harley, 1989. “Deconstructing the map.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 26 (2), 1-­‐20. 4) Denis Wood and John Fels, 1986. Designs on signs/Myth and meaning in maps. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 23 (3), 54-­‐103. 10
Revised 30 Aug 2011 5) Helen Couclelis, 1992. People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): beyond the raster-­‐vector debate in GIS. Theories and methods of spatio-­‐temporal reasoning in geographic space, 65-­‐77. 6) Sarah Elwood, 2008. “Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS.” GeoJournal 72 (3), 173-­‐183. Additional reading: 7) Michael Goodchild, 2007. “Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography.” GeoJournal 69 (4), 211-­‐221. 8) Muki Haklay, Alex Singleton, and Chris Parker. 2008. “Web mapping 2.0: the Neogeography of the Geoweb.” Geography Compass 2(6), 2011-­‐2039. 9) Denis Wood, 2003. Cartography is dead (thank God!). Cartographic Perspectives 45 (45), 4-­‐7. 10) Nadine Schuurman and Geraldine Pratt, 2002. “Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 9 (3), 291-­‐
299. III. Practicing Geography Week 11, November 2 – Globalization and Growth 1) KCG, 331-­‐343 & 365-­‐391 2) The World Bank, 2009. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. The World Bank, Washington, DC 3) David Harvey. 2009. “Reshaping economic geography: the World Development Report 2009.” Development and change 40(6), 1269-­‐1277. 4) Gillian Hart. 2010. “Redrawing the Map of the World? Reflections on the World Development Report 2009.” Economic Geography 86(4), 341-­‐350. 5) Andrés Rodríguez-­‐Pose. 2010. “Economic Geographers and the Limelight: Institutions and Policy in the World Development Report 2009.” Economic Geography 86(4), 361-­‐
370. 6) Uwe Deichmann, Indermit Gill, I., and Chor Ching Goh. 2010. “World Development Report 2009: A Practical Economic Geography.” Economic Geography 86(4), 371-­‐380. 7) Harvey, D. 2010. “Crises of Capitalism,” presented by RSA Animate (video). Additional Reading: 8) Jeffrey Sachs, Andrew Mellinger, and John Gallup, 2001. “The geography of poverty and wealth.” Scientific American 284 (3), 70-­‐75. 9) Richard Peet, 2006. “The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 (2), 450-­‐453. 10) James Ferguson and Larry Lohman, 1994. “The Anti-­‐Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticisation and Bureaucratic Power in the Third World.” The Ecologist 24 (September/October), 176-­‐181. 11) Michael Watts, 2003. Development and governmentality. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24 (1), 6-­‐34. 12) Neil Smith, 2008. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. University of Georgia Press: Athens, GA. Week 12 November 9 – Geopolitics and security 11
Revised 30 Aug 2011 1) KCG, pp. 392-­‐404. 2) Trevor J. Barnes and Matthew Farish, 2006. “Between regions: science, militarism, and American geography from World War to Cold War.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 (4), 807-­‐826. 3) Derek Gregory, 2006. The black flag: Guantánamo Bay and the space of exception. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 88 (4), 405-­‐427. 4) L. Bialasiewicz, D. Campbell, S. Elden, S. Graham, A. Jeffrey, A.J. Williams, 2007. Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy. Political Geography 26 (4), 405-­‐422. 5) Robert Kaplan. 2009. “The Revenge of Geography.” Foreign Policy, May/June. 6) (Various). 2009. “Geography writes back: Response to Kaplan’s ‘The Revenge of Geography.’” Human Geography, 2(2): 33-­‐51. Additional Reading: 7) Neil Smith, 2003. American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. University of California Press: Berkeley. 8) Gerard O’Tuathail, 1996. Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space. Routledge: London and New York. Week 13, November 16 – Climate Change 1) KCG, pp. 405-­‐424. 2) Robert Kates, 1971. Natural hazard in human ecological perspective: hypotheses and models. Economic Geography , 438-­‐451. 3) W. Neil Adger, N.W. Arnell, and E.L. Tompkins, 2005. Successful adaptation to climate change across scales. Global Environmental Change Part A 15 (2), 77-­‐86. 4) Michael Hulme. 2008. “Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33(1), 5-­‐11. 5) Ian Bailey. 2008. “Geographical work at the boundaries of climate policy: a commentary and complement to Mike Hulme.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33(3), 420-­‐423. 6) Michael Hulme. 2008. “Governing and adapting to climate. A response to Ian Bailey's Commentary on ‘Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change’.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33(3), 424-­‐427. Additional Readings 7) Mike Davis. 2004. The Political Ecology of Famine: the origins of the Third World. In: R. Peet and M. Watts, eds. Liberation Ecologies, 2nd Edition. Routledge, London and New York. Pp. 44-­‐57. 8) R. Kates, 2000. Cautionary tales: adaptation and the global poor. Climatic Change 45 (1), 5-­‐17. 9) Michael Watts, 1983. “On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context.” In: K. Hewitt, ed. Interpretations of calamity from the viewpoint of human ecology. Winchester, MA; Allen & Unwin, pp. 231-­‐262. 10) R. Kates, 1985. The Interaction of Climate and Society . R.W. Kates, J.H. Ausubel, and M. Berberian, eds. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society pp. 3-­‐36 11) Mark Carey. 2010. In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society. Oxford: Oxford and New York. 12
Revised 30 Aug 2011 12) D. Demeritt. 2001. “The construction of global warming and the politics of science.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91(2): 307-­‐337. 13) S. Schneider. 2001. “A constructive deconstruction of constructionists: a response to Demeritt.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91(2): 338-­‐344. 14) D. Demeritt. 2001. “Science and the understanding of science.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91(2): 345-­‐348. Week 14 November 30 – Policy and Ethics 1) KCG, 427-­‐457 2) Read commentaries from Google groups site. Additional readings 3) Peter Herlihy, Jerome Dobson, Miguel Angel Robledo, Derek Smith, Jon Kelly, and A.R. Viera, 2008. “A Digital Geography of Indigenous Mexico: Prototype for the American Geographical Society's Bowman Expeditions.” Geographical Review 98(3), 395-­‐415. 4) Joe Bryan. 2010. “Force multipliers: Geography, militarism, and the Bowman Expeditions.” Political Geography 29(8), 414-­‐416. 5) Peter H. Herlihy. 2010. “Self-­‐appointed gatekeepers attack the American Geographical Society's first Bowman Expedition.” Political Geography 29(8), 417-­‐419. 6) John Agnew. 2010. “Ethics or militarism? The role of the AAG in what was originally a dispute over informed consent.” Political Geography 29(8), 422-­‐423. 7) Melquiades K. Cruz. 2010. “A living space: The relationship between land and property in the community.” Political Geography 29(8), 420-­‐421. Week 15 December 7 -­‐-­‐ Student Presentations 13