LAW SPACE AND POWER

Spring Term 2019/2020

Lectures Guide

Dr Gian Giacomo Fusco

g.g.fusco-3@kent.ac.uk
Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4 pm
Room: N4 N3
 CLASS 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE MODULE

Required:
First Task. Watch the Video Lecture by Paul Hirst on the politics of space (make notes of
things you find interesting or difficult to understand and bring them with you): Click to
watch.
Second Task. Walk around in town (whether it is Canterbury or wherever you live) and take
2 photos (with your phone or a camera): 1 photo that depicts, in your view, “power” and 1
photo that depicts “law” (or the intersection of law and power if you prefer); then write down
1-2 lines as to the things that come to mind for each of them (it can be a series of words, a
sentence, a description or whatever really comes to mind – you should not over-think this, it
is not a test!) Once you have done so send them to my mailbox: g.g.fusco-3@kent.ac.uk
Third Task. Attempt to write down your own definition of ‘space’, ‘law’ and ‘power’ (if you
can’t think of a definition in full, write down the words that come to mind when you think of
‘space’, ‘law’ and ‘power’).

Optional Reading:
Paul Hirst, Space and Power: Politics, war and architecture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005)
(DB)
Paul Hirst, extract on the city (DB)
Carl Schmitt, extract on the notion of nomos (DB)
 CLASS 2: LAW AND THE JUST CITY

Required:
Walk around in town (whether it is Canterbury or wherever you live) and take 2 photos (with
your phone or a camera): 1 photo that depicts, in your view, “power” and 1 photo that depicts
“law” (or the intersection of law and power if you prefer); then write down 1-2 lines as to the
things that come to mind for each of them (it can be a series of words, a sentence, a
description or whatever really comes to mind – you should not over-think this, it is not a
test!) Once you have done so send them to my mailbox: g.g.fusco-3@kent.ac.uk

Read: Jean-Francois Pradeau’s Plato and the City: A New Introduction to Plato’s Political
Thought, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2002. Chapter 5 [Extracts]: 139-166. Make
notes and include your own reflections. The question that should guide your reading is:
what is a city? What would an ideal city or state be like in your view?

Further optional reading:

 David Harvey, see extract on the notion of space (DB)

 James Finlayson’s Urban Devastation – a solidarity pamphlet. (DB)
 Madanipour, extract on public space and the city (DB)
 Lefebvre, H [1974] (1991), The production of space. Translated by Donald
Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell (see extract on the notion of space in DB as well
as the book).
 Soja, E. W. (2010), Seeking spatial justice Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press.
 Christine Habbard, (2011) “Lines of Fiction, Spaces of Power”, Cahiers de Logique et
d’Epistémologie, Paris, November.
 Pierre Bourdieu (1990), “Structures, Habitus, Practices” (pp. 52-65), and 'Modes of
Domination” (pp. 122-134), in [Pierre Bourdieu] The Logic of Practice, Polity.
  Bertrand De Jouvenel (1962), On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth,
Beacon Press.
 Steven Lukes (2005), Power: a radical view, Palgrave.

CLASS 3: SOVEREIGN LAW, TERRITORY & POWER

Required:

Read: Stuart Elden’s “Territory/Territoriality” from the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Urban and Regional Studies, ed. Anthony M. Orum.

Watch the video lecture by Elden at Click to watch.

Watch the video short: The concept of sovereignty by Bourke at: click to watch.

Read Agamben, G., (1998). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press. Pp.15-30 – this may be tough going at times, please do not worry,
keep reading and try to find something interesting to think about as to any aspect of this text.
Make notes as to these and include your own reflections.

Further Optional Readings:

 Thanos Zartaloudis, Giorgio Agamben – Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism
(Routledge, 2011), Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
 Paye, extract chapter on sovereignty and the war on terror (DB)
 Gregory D. (2006) “The black flag: Guantánamo Bay and the space of exception”,
Geografiska Annaler: Series B 88 405–427.
 John Agnew, (2005) “Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in
Contemporary World Politics”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
Vol. 95, No. 2, Jun., pp.437-461.
 Carl Schmitt, (2003) The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus
Publicum, trans. G.L. Ulmen, Telos, New York, Chapter 4: On the Meaning of the
Word Nomos, pp. 67-79.
 Branch, J. (2011). “Mapping the Sovereign State: Technology, Authority, and
Systemic Change.” International Organization, 65(1), 1-36.
 John Agnew, (1994) “The Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of
International Relations Theory”, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 1,
Issue 1, pp. 53-80.
 Elden, S., (2007), “Governmentality, Calculation, Territory”, Environment and
Planning D, 25(3), pp. 562-80.
 Elden, Stuart, (2013), The Birth of Territory, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 Foucault, M. (2009), Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de
France 1977-1978, Senellart, M., Ewald, F., & Fontana, A. eds. Translated by G.
Burchell. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
 Agamben, Giorgio. (2005) State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell. Chicago & London:
University of Chicago Press.
 Dehart, Paulr. (2013) “Leviathan Leashed: The incoherence of absolute sovereign
power”, Critical Review, vol. 25(1), 1-37.
 Giorgio Agamben, (1998) Homo Sacer, Power and Bare Life, SUP, Chapter 1 & 2,
especially 15-38, and 71-90 and 166-180.
 Reid-Henry S (2007) “Exceptional sovereignty? Guantánamo Bay and the re-colonial
present”, Antipode 39 627-648.
 Ramadan A (2009) “Destroying Nahr el-Bared: sovereignty and urbicide in the space
of exception” Political Geography 28 153-163.
 Hobbes, T., 1986, Leviathan, reprint ed. Penguin, New York.
 J. Agnew and S. Corbridge (1996) Mastering space: hegemony, territory and
international political economy, Routledge, London
 Malcolm Anderson (1996) Frontiers: territory and state formation in the modern
world, Polity Press, Cambridge
 Klaus Dodds (2000) Geopolitics in a changing world, Prentice Hall, Harlow
 E.J. Hobsbawm (1990) Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth,
reality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
 John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith [ed.s] (1994) Nationalism, Oxford University
Press, Oxford
 David Storey (2001) Territory: the claiming of space, Prentice Hall, Harlow
 Biersteker, T & Weber, C (1996) State sovereignty as a social construct, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge
 Stuart Elden (2009) Terror and territory: the spatial extent of sovereignty, University
of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
 David Newman [ed.] (1999) Boundaries, territory and postmodernity, Frank Cass
publishers, London
 James Crawford (2006 [second edition]) The creation of states in international law,
Oxford University Press, Oxford
 R.Y. Jennings (1963) The acquisition of territory in international law, Manchester
University Press, Manchester.
 CLASS 4: BORDERS

Required:
Watch Bridget Anderson’s video short on borders Click to watch.
Watch the video short on ‘complex borders’ Click to watch.
Watch Sandro Mezzandra’s video lecture ‘Border’ Click to watch.
Read Mezzadra, S. and Nielson, B. (2012) “Between inclusion and exclusion: On the
topology of global space and borders”. Theory, Culture & Society, 29 (4–5), 58–75.

Make notes as to these and include your own reflections.

Further Optional Readings:

 James Akerman, (1995) “The Structuring of Political Territory in Early Printed

Atlases”, Imago Mundi, Vol. 47, pp. 138-154.
 Vaughan-Williams, Nick. (2009) Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power.
Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh ⁄ Columbia University Press.
 J.B. Harley, (1988) Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe”, Imago
Mundi, 40, pp. 57-76.
 John Pickles, (2005) “’New Cartographies' and the Decolonization of European
Geographies”, Area, Vol. 37, No. 4, Dec., pp. 355-364.
 David Turnbull, (1996) “Cartography and Science in Early Modern Europe: Mapping
the Construction of Knowledge Spaces”, Imago Mundi, Vol. 48, pp. 5-24.
 Nicholas Blomley,(2003) “Law, Property, and the Geography of Violence: The
Frontier, the Survey, and the Grid”, Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, Vol. 93, No. 1, Mar., pp. 121-141.
 Anne Griffiths et al (eds), (2013) Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of
Law in Society, Ashgate.
 Victor Prescott and Gillian D. Triggs (2008) International frontiers and boundaries:
law, politics and geography, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden
 Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy‐Warr (2007) [ed.s] Borderscapes: hidden
geographies and politics at territory’s edge, University of Minnesota Press,
MinneapolisDennis Rumley and Julian Minghi [ed.s] (1991) The geography of border
landscapes, Routledge, London
 John Williams (2006) The ethics of international borders: drawing shifting lines in
the sand, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
 David Newman (2000) “Boundaries, territory and postmodernity: towards shared or
separate spaces” in M.A. Pratt and J.A. Brown [ed.s] Borderlands under stress,
Kluwer, Dordrecht, 17‐34
 Anssi Paasi (1998) “Boundaries as social processes: territoriality in the world of
flows” in Geopolitics, 3 (1), 69‐88
 Victor Prescott (1999) “Borders in a ‘borderless’ world” in Geopolitics, 4 (2), 262‐
273.
 FitzGerald, S. A. (2012). “Vulnerable bodies, vulnerable borders: Extraterritoriality
and human trafficking”. Feminist Legal Studies, 20(3), 227-244.
 Gill, N. (2009). “Governmental mobility: The power effects of the movement of
detained asylum seekers around Britain’s detention estate.” Political Geography,
28(3), 186-196.
 Gill, N. (2013) “Mobility versus Liberty? The punitive uses of movement within and
outside carceral environments” in and Moran, D., Gill, N. and Conlon, D. (eds)
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention,
Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 19-36
 Hyndman, J. (2012). “The geopolitics of migration and mobility”. Geopolitics, 17(2),
243-255.
 Jones, R. (2012). “Spaces of Refusal: Rethinking Sovereign Power and Resistance at
the Border.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(3), 685-699.
 Mountz, A. (2015). “In/visibility and the Securitization of Migration Shaping Publics
through Border Enforcement on Islands”. Cultural Politics, 11(2), 184-200.
 Mountz, A. (2011). “The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum
on islands”. Political Geography, 30(3), 118-128.
 Johnson, C., Jones, R., Paasi, A., Amoore, L., Mountz, A., Salter, M., & Rumford, C.
(2011). Interventions on rethinking “the border” in border studies. Political
Geography, 30(2), 61-69.
 Rumford, C. (2006). “Theorizing borders”. European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2),
155-169.
 Salter, M. B. (2006). “The global visa regime and the political technologies of the
international self: borders, bodies, biopolitics”. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political,
31(2), 167-189.
 Salter, M. B. (2008). “When the exception becomes the rule: borders, sovereignty,
and citizenship”. Citizenship studies, 12(4), 365-380.
 Silvey, R. (2004). “Power, difference and mobility: feminist advances in migration
studies”. Progress in human geography, 28(4), 490-506.
 Van Der Ploeg, I. (1999): “Written on the Body: Biometrics and Identity”, Computers
and Society 29: 37-44.
 Verstraete, G. (2001): “Technological Frontiers and the Politics of Mobilities”, New
Formations: 26-43.
 Walters, W. (2002): “Mapping Schengenland: denaturalizing the border”,
Environment and Planning D 20: 561-580.
 Walters, W. (2006): “Border/Control”, European Journal of Social Theory 9: 187-
203.
 See the excellent Society and Space forum edited by Lauren Martin and Martina
Tazzioli (2016) “Governing Mobility Through the European Union’s ‘Hotspot’
Centres, A forum http://societyandspace.org/2016/11/08/governing-mobility-through-
the-european-unions-hotspot-centres-a-forum/%5D
 Andrijasevic, R. (2006). “Lampedusa in focus: Migrants caught between the Libyan
desert and the deep sea”. Feminist Review, 120-125.
 Andrijasevic, R. (2010). “DEPORTED: The Right to Asylum at EU’s External Border
of Italy and Libya”. International Migration, 48(1), 148-174.
 Bialasiewicz, L. (2012). “Off-shoring and Out-sourcing the Borders of EUrope: Libya
and EU Border Work in the Mediterranean”. Geopolitics, 17(4), 843-866.
 Cuttitta, P. (2014). ““Borderizing” the Island Setting and Narratives of the Lampedusa
“Border Play””. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(2),
196-219.
 Dines, N., Montagna, N., & Ruggiero, V. (2015). “Thinking Lampedusa: border
construction, the spectacle of bare life and the productivity of migrants”. Ethnic and
Racial Studies, 38(3), 430-445.
 Ferrer-Gallardo, X., & van Houtum, H. (2014). “The Deadly EU border control”.
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(2), 295-304.
 Heller, T., Pezzani, L., & Studio, S. (2012). Report on the “Left-To-Die Boat”. part of
the European Research Council project “Forensic Architecture,” Centre for Research
Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, available online at:
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/fo-report
 Horsti, K. (2015) “Remains of Rescue and Confinement: Humanitarian Bordering in
Lampedusa”. Available at: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-
criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/09/remains-rescue
 Horsti, K. (2014) “Psychogeographies of Lampedusa: Race and gender in
exploration” http://reconfiguringruins.blogs.sas.ac.uk/ruins-elsewhere-otherwise/
psychogeographies-of-lampedusa-race-and-gender-in-exploration/
  Pezzani, L., & Heller, C. (2013). “A disobedient gaze: strategic interventions in the
knowledge (s) of maritime borders”. Postcolonial Studies, 16(3), 289-298.
 Pugliese, J. (2009). “Crisis heterotopias and border zones of the dead”. Continuum:
Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 23(5), 663-679.
 Puggioni, R. (2015). “Border politics, right to life and acts of dissensus: voices from
the Lampedusa borderland”. Third World Quarterly, 36(6), 1145-1159.
 Raeymaekers, T. (2014). “Introduction: Europe’s Bleeding Border and the
Mediterranean as a Relational Space”. ACME: An International E-Journal for
Critical Geographies, 13(2), 163-172.
 Reid-Henry, S. M. (2013). “An incorporating geopolitics: Frontex and the geopolitical
rationalities of the European border”. Geopolitics, 18(1), 198-224.

CLASS 5: PRISON AND DISCIPLINARY POWER

Required:
Read Michel Foucault, (1995) Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, NY: Vintage
Books, Chapter 3: Panopticism, pp. 195-228. [DP]
Read Angela Davis, “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex”
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/masked-racism-reflections-prison-industrial-complex
Listen to Foucault speaking on disciplinary power in two parts:

a. Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk9ulS76PW8
b. Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EsEgwYdzlA

As ever please come prepared with your notes on these to raise questions and discuss.
Further Reading (Indicative, Optional):
 Taylor, D. (2010) Michel Foucault: Key Concepts. Routledge, Part I - Disciplinary
power, pp. 27-40.
 Robin Evans, (1982) The fabrication of Virtue, English Prison Architecture 1750-1840,
Cambridge: CUP.
 Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon and Other Prison Writings (Verso, 1995).
 Colin Dayan, The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
(Princeton University Press, 2011).
 Norval Morris and David Rothman, eds., The Oxford History of the Prison (Oxford
University Press, 1995).
 Mark Philp, (1983) “Foucault on Power: A Problem in Radical Translation?” Political
Theory, Vol. 11. No. 1, pp.29-52.
 N Sim, J. (2009) Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State. London: Sage
Publications.
 Garland, D. (1990) Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
 Davis, Angela Y. (2011) Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.
 With reference to the US prisons but not only you will find a good collection of essential
material here: http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/essential-pic-reading-list/
CLASS 6: SURVEILLANCE AND THE CITY OF
CONTROL

Required:

Read David Lyon, “Surveillance, Power and Everyday Life”, Oxford Handbook of
Information and Communication Technologies, 1-37. Oxford: OUP.

Further Optional Reading:

 Anne Bottomley and Nathan Moore, “From Walls to Membranes…”, Law and Critique
(2007) 18: 171-206.
 David Garland, The culture of control: crime and social order in contemporary society,
Oxford University Press, 2002
 Eyal Weizman, “Walking through walls” 2007, EIPCP,
http://eipcp.net/transversal/0507/weizman/en
 Nathan Moore, “Diagramming Control” [DB]
 Dion Dennis, “Policing the Convergence of Virtual and Material Worlds”, ctheory.net,
http://ctheory.net//articles.aspx?id=567
 Flusty, S., 2001, “The Banality of Interdiction: Surveillance, Control and the
Displacement of Diversity”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25,
3, 658-664.

CLASS 7: SEMINAR 1 - CASE STUDY: THE GHETTO

Required Reading:

Read Benjamin C.I. Ravid, “From Geographical Realia to Historiographical Symbol: The
Odyssey of the Word Ghetto” in David B. Ruderman, ed., Essential Papers on Jewish Culture
in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (New York, 1992). You can read it here:
http://faculty.history.umd.edu/BCooperman/NewCity/Geographical.html
Read Loïc Wacquant, (2000) “The new ‘peculiar institution’ – on the prison as surrogate
ghetto”, Theoretical Criminology, vol.4(3), pp.377-389.
[if time allows] Read Eduardo Mendieta, (2007) “Penalized spaces: The ghetto as prison and
the prison as ghetto”, City, vol.11, no.3, December, pp.384-390.
As ever please come prepared with your notes on these to raise questions and discuss.

Further Optional Reading:

 Mitchell Duneier, 2016. Ghetto: the invention of a place, the history of an idea, New
York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 Wirth, L. (1969) The Ghetto Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press.
 Loïc Wacquant (2014), “Marginality, ethnicity and penality in the neoliberal city: An
analytic cartography”, Ethnic & Racial Studies, vol. 37, no 10, pp. 1687-1711,
 Lynn Hancock & Gerry Mooney (2013) “Welfare Ghettos and the Broken Society:
Territorial Stigmatization in the Contemporary UK”, Housing, Theory and Society,
30:1,46-64,
 Agier, M. (2009) “The ghetto, the hyper-ghetto and the fragmentation of the world”.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33.3, 854-857.
 Carling, A. (2008) The curious case of the mis-claimed myth claims: ethnic segregation,
polarisation and the future of Bradford. Urban Studies 45.3, 553- 589.
 Diken, B. (2004) From refugee camps to gated communities: biopolitics and the end of
the city. Citizenship Studies 8.1, 83-106.
 Flint, J. (2009) 'Cultures, ghettos and camps: sites of exception and antagonism in the
city', Housing Studies, 24(4), pp.417-431.
 James, Z. Policing marginal spaces: Controlling Gypsies and Travellers, Criminology
and Criminal Justice, 7(4), pp.367-389.
 Marcuse, P. (1997) 'The enclave, the citadel, and the ghetto: what has changed in the
post-Fordist US city', Urban Affairs Review, 33(2), pp.228-264.
 Peach, C. (1996) 'Does Britain have ghettos?' Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, New Series, 21, pp.216-235.
 Sibley, D. (1981) Outsiders in Urban Societies. Oxford: Blackwell.
 Sibley, D. (1998) 'Problematizing exclusion: reflections on space, difference and
knowledge', International planning studies, 3, pp. 93-100.
 Wacquant, L. (2008a Ghettos and anti-ghettos: An anatomy of the new urban poverty,
Thesis Eleven, 94, pp.113-118.
 CLASS 8: CAMPS (AND BIOPOLITICAL POWER)

Required:
Read Richard Ek “Giorgio Agamben and the Spatialities of the Camp: An Introduction.”
Geografiska Annaler 88 (2006): 363-386.
Read Claudio Minca (2015) “Geographies of the camp” Political Geography 49: 74-83.

Further Optional Reading:

 Giorgio Agamben, “The Camp as the Nomos of the Modern”, in Hent De Vries, Samuel
Weber, Violence, Identity and Self-Determination, HAFTAD. 1997. [DB]
 Manuel Herz “Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara” in Herz, Manuel, From Camp to
City. Refugee camps of the Western Sahara – Manuel Herz (ETH Studio Basel, 2012).
[DB]
 Turner, S. What is a refugee camp? Explorations of the limits and effects of the camp
Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2015.
 Diken, B & Laustsen, CB 2002, 'Zones of indistinction: camps of security and terror.'
Space and Culture, vol 5, no. 3, 290-307.
 G. Agamben, "Beyond Human Rights," trans. Vincenzo, in: Means Without End: Notes on
Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000): 15–26.
 H. Arendt, “We Refugees,” In: Marc Robinson, ed., Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on
Exile (Boston-London: Faber and Faber, 1994): 110–119.
 M. Agier, “The Desert, The Camp and The City,” in: On the Margins of the World
(Malden: Polity Press 2008): 39–72.
 Betts, “Global Governance,” in: Forced Migration and Global Politics (Malden: John
Wiley and Sons. 2008): 99-126.
 Sanyal, R. (2014) “Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement”.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38.2 (3). p.558-572.
 Claudia Aradau (2007) “Law transformed: Guantánamo and the ‘other’ exception”, Third
World Quarterly, 28:3, 489-501.

CLASS 9: SEMINAR 2 - CASE STUDY: CAMPS AND SLUMS

Required:
Watch the documentary, “City Slums – Megacity Problems”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fcDF3PESXI
Read Alan Mayne, “The War on Slums” in Mayne, A. Slums – The history of a global
injustice, London: Reaktion Books, 2017. pp.89-130. [DB]

Further Optional Reading:

 Watch Mike Davis’ lecture “Planet of Slums”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=VUqlANApPgQ
 Katherine Boo, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai
Undercity
 Davis, M. (2006) Planet of slums. London: Verso.
 Musterd, S. and Osterndorf, W. (eds) (1998) Urban segregation and the welfare state :
inequality and exclusion in western cities, London: Routledge.
 Soja, E. W. (2010), Seeking spatial justice, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 Wacquant, L (2008), Urban outcasts: a comparative sociology of advanced marginality.
Cambridge: Polity Press.
 Richard Pithouse, “Thinking Resistance in the Shanty Town”
http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/thinking-resistance-shanty-town
 Nuissl, Henning and Dirk Heinrichs, 2013, “Slums: perspectives on the definition, the
appraisal and the management of an urban phenomenon” – DIE ERDE 144 (2): 105116
 Ananya Roy, “Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism”, International journal of
Urban and Regional Research, vol.35(2) March, pp.223-238

CLASS 10 - Q&A AS TO THE ESSAY AND TIPS

In this lecture we are going to discuss together your plans and concerns about your essays. I
will preface the session with some tips as to how to improve your writing, analysis and
argument as well as as to how to locate good material. Please come prepared to raise
questions and any issues that are of concern as to the essay.

CLASS 11: SEMINAR 3 - CASE STUDY: MILITARIZATION:

CITIES UNDER SIEGE
Required:

Read Stephen Graham, Cities Under Siege – The New Military Urbanism, London and
NY: Verso, 2010. Read: 60-88.
Watch Stephen Graham speak on the notion of control and the Smart City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxA8nScqiqk

Further Optional Reading:

 Mike Davis, “Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space”, 154-180
[DB].
 Watch Graham on Cities under Siege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MtRc30dk2wk
 Interesting blog with various short pieces on militarization of urban spaces:
http://subtopia.blogspot.co.uk/
 Michel Foucault, Lecture 11 in Foucault, M., 2003, Society Must be Defended:
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976, Bertani, M., Fontana, A., & Ewald, F.
eds. Translated by Macey. Picador, New York, 239-264.
 Douglas Spencer, “The Architecture of Managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the
post-political”, in Nadir Lahiji, ed., Architecture Against the Post-Political,
Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project, Routledge, 2014, 151-166.
 Giorgio Agamben, “Security and Terror”, Theory and Event 5.4 (2002)
 Bauman, Z., City of fear, city of hope, 2003
 Foucault, M., 2009, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France
1977-1978, Senellart, M., Ewald, F., & Fontana, A. eds. Translated by G. Burchell.
Palgrave Macmillan, London.
 Benton-Short, L. 2007, “Bollards, bunkers and barriers: Securing the National
Mall in Washington, D.C.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25: 424-
46
 Coaffee, J. 2009. Terrorism, risk and the global city —Towards urban resilience.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

CLASS 12 (SEMINAR 4) NOTE: OPTIONAL ESSAY

TUTORIALS

If necessary, those among you that have further particular concerns as to your essay writing
and planning can come to this seminar to discuss them with me. This class is optional.