Collaborative Research - Working Groups

Local Worlds

Discussion of Vinay Gidwani, Capital, Interrupted, chapter 3, 'Machine'

(Reading for May 19, 2009 meeting)
Vinay Gidwani. 2008 Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India, Chapter 3, 'Machine'. [PDF]

“Thinking Africa in the Neoliberal World Order with James Ferguson's Global Shadows”

discussion led by Rohit Negi, OSU Department of Geography (Readings for January 22, 2008 Meeting)

Ferguson, James. 2008. Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, Intro & Chap 1. [PDF]

Ferguson, James. 2008. Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, Chaps 5 & 8. [PDF]

Silk Road City of Exchange: Idioms of Societal Transformation in Urban Place (Readings for Oct 6, 2008 Meeting)

Liu, Morgan: book bibliography. [PDF]

Spivak and Critical Regionalism (Readings for March 2008 Meeting)

Spivak, Gayatri C. 2008. Other Asias, Forward and Chap 3, "(1994) Will Postcolonalism Travel?" [PDF]

Spivak, Gayatri C. 2008. Other Asias, Chap 7, "(2003) Our Asias: How to be a Continentalist" [PDF]

Region in the Critical International Relations Literature (Readings for Feb 27, 2008 Meeting)

Bieler, Andreas 2002. "The Struggle over EU enlargement: a historical materialist analysis of European integration", J. of European Public Policy 9(4):575-97. [PDF]

Higashino, Atsuko 2004. "For the Sake of 'Peace and Security'?: The role of security in the EU enlargement eastwards", Cooperation and Conflict 39(4):347-68. [PDF]

Linguistic Local Worlds: Region and Distinction in Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (Readings for Jan 30, 2008 Meeting)

Labov, William. 1963. The social motivation of a sound change. In Sociolinguistic Patterns, ed. William Labov, 1-42. [PDF]

Hill, Jane. 1996. The grammar of consciousness and the consciousness of grammar. In The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology. ed. by Don Brenneis and RJ Macaulay. Boulder: Westview Press. [PDF]

Basso, Keith. 1993. Wisdom Sits in Places. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. Chapter 2. [PDF]

Concept of Region in Human Geography (Readings for Nov 29, 2007 Meeting)

This week we will read chapters IX and X of Richard Hartshorne's 1939 text, The Nature of Geography, which concern the concept of the region. To print chapters IX and X (which comprise pages [250] to [365] of the original text), open the PDF file called "Hartshorne 1939 part 2" and print PDF pages 15 to 130. (Ignore the page numbers that are in the upper right corner of the pages. Original pagination is given in the [brackets] at the bottom of each page.)

Richard Hartshorne 1939

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"The Nature of Geography: A Critical Survey of Current Thought in the Light of the Past" &
"The Nature of Geography: A Critical Survey of Current Thought in the Light of the Past (Conclusion)"

Power, Space & Culture in Cultural Anthropology (Readings for Nov 7, 2007 Meeting)

Akhil Gupta 1998

"Postcolonial Developments", Chapter 5, "Peasants and global enviromentalism, a new form of governmentality?" [PDF]

Gupta & Ferguson 1997

"Beyond Culture: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference" [PDF]

Liisa Malkki 1997

"National Geographic: Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity" [PDF]

John Peters 1997

"Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture" [PDF]

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