Graduate Courses
Themis Chronopoulos

Globalization and the City

This graduate theme seminar examines how global processes have affected world cities and their populations in the post-World War II period. The readings and discussions focus on citizenship, democracy, global political economy, public space, neoliberalism, urban representation, spatial fortification, as well as race and class. The cities explored include Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, and São Paulo.


Neoliberalism in History and Theory

This research seminar examines the political economy of
international relations since the 1960s with an emphasis on
neoliberalism. The course provides an overview of the following
topics:
(1) The challenges that nation states have been facing as a result of
globalization, neoliberalism, and trade blocs.
(2) The relationship of democracy, neoliberalism, and civil society.
(3) Policies that involve border control in an era of growing
migrations.
(4) The emerging racial orders that neoliberal policies and
globalization have created.

Books (used in the past):

Globalization and the City

Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004).

Arlene Dávila, Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).

David William Foster, Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002).

Matthew Gutmann, The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico (Berkeley: University of California Press 2002).

Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

Martin J. Murray, Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).

Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World (New York: Routledge, 2005).

Peter Newman and Andy Thornley, Planning World Cities (New York: MacMillan-Palgrave, 2005).

Susana Rotker, ed., Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).

Richard Tomlinson, Robert Beauregard, Lindsay Bremmer, and Xolela Mangcu, Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Postapartheid City (New York: Routledge, 2003).

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Neoliberalism in History and Theory

Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (New York: Anchor Books, 2004).

James Ferguson, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy: Understanding the Political Economic Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).

Alejandro Grimson and Gabriel Kessler, On Argentina and the Southern Cone (New York: Routledge, 2005).

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Marcus Taylor, From Pinochet to the 'Third Way': Neoliberalism and Social Transformation in Chile (London: Pluto Press, 2006).

 

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