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Questions of Method Seminars - Readings

Workshop 1

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Workshop 1 outline 

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Doreen Massey. 1994.  Space, Place and Gender. University of Minnesota Press: "General Introduction" (pp.1-9) and "A Global Sense of Place” (pp.146-156).

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Gillian Hart. 2018. “Becoming a Geographer: Massey Moments in a Spatial Education.” In Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues.  Edited by Jamie Peck, Marion Werner, Rebecca Lave & Brett Christophers.  Columbia University Press (pp. 75-87; esp. pp. 75-81).

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Gillian Hart. 2002.  Introduction to Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa.  University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (pp. 1-15).

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Andrew Sayer. 1991. “Behind the Locality Debate: Deconstructing Geography’s Dualisms.” Environment & Planning A 23: (pp.283-308; esp. pp. 297-301).

 

Doreen Massey. 1994.  Space, Place and Gender. University of Minnesota Press: “The Political Place of Locality Studies” (pp.125-145); “Politics and Space-Time” (pp.249-272).

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Andrew Merrifield. 1993. “Place and Space: A Lefebvrian Reconciliation.” Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers 18: 516-531.

Workshop 2

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Workshop 2 outline 

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Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama. 2017. Hostels in South Africa: Spaces of Perplexity. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.  “Introduction: Unveiling the Hostel’s Perplexity” (esp. pp. 1-11 & 30-34).

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Melanie Samson. 2019. “Trashing Solidarity: the  Production of Power and the Challenges to Organizing Informal Reclaimers.” International Labor and Working-Class History no. 95: pp. 34-48.

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Bridget Kenny. 2018. Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Global Economy. Palgrave McMillan: “Introduction” (esp. pp 1-22).

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Combahee River Collective Statement. 1977. https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html.

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Himani Bannerji. 2005. “Building from Marx: Reflections on Class and Race.” Social Justice 32(4):pp. 144-160.

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Stuart Hall. 1980. “Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance.” In Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism. Paris: UNESCO: (esp. pp. 25 ff.).

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Gillian Hart 2007.  “Changing Concepts of Articulation: Political Stakes in South Africa Today.” Review of African Political Economy no. 111: (esp.  pp.89-93 – summary of Hall’s concept of articulation).

Workshop 3

Workshop 3 outline 

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Henri Lefebvre. 1991. The Production of Space. Basil Blackwell: pp. 323-326. (on land and nature).

 

Fernando Coronil. (1997). The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. Chapter 1 “History’s Nature.” University of Chicago Press. (Coronil expands on the fragment on land and nature in useful ways - esp. pp. 56-65)

 

Gillian Hart. 2006. Denaturalizing Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism. Antipode 38(5): 977–1004.

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Gillian Hart. 2018. Relational Comparison Revisited: Marxist Postcolonial Geographies in Practice. Progress in Human Geography 42(3): 371-394 (esp. pp.376-387; 385-390).

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Philip McMichael.1990. Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective: An Alternative Comparative Method. American Historical Review 55 (3): 385–97.

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Shu-Mei Shih. 2015. World Studies and Relational Comparison. Publications of the Modern Languages Association 103(2): 430-438.

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Karl Marx. 1857 Introduction to the Grundrisse.
 

Stuart Hall. 2003 [1974] “Marx’s Notes on Method: A ‘Reading’ of the ‘1857 Introduction.’” Cultural Studies 17 (2): 113–49.
 

Bertell Ollman. 2003. Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx’s Method. University of Illinois Press
 

Derek Sayer. 1989. The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (esp. Chapter 6 “The Historicity of Concepts”).
 

Henri Lefebvre. 1991. The Production of Space. Basil Blackwell: pp. 65-67 (on regressive/progressive method).

 

Antonio Gramsci. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.  “Analysis of Situations.  Relations of Force” (pp. 397-411 Electronic Book). 
 

Louis Althusser. 1962. For Marx: Chapter on “Contradiction and Overdetermination”
 

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey & Michael Rustin. 2013. After Neoliberalism: Analysing the Present. (the Kilburn Manifesto).
 

John Clarke. 2019. A Sense of Loss? Unsettled Attachments in the Current Conjuncture. New Formations 96: 132-146.


Lawrence Grossberg. 2019. Cultural Studies in Search of a Method, or Looking for Conjunctural Analysis. New Formations 96: 38-68. 

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