Geographies of Injustice

Session 1 Readings: Politics of Comparison

Our first meeting on the Politics of Comparison will be on February 12 from 6-8pm at the Casa Hispánica room 201 (612 W. 116th St. between Broadway and Riverside Dr.). We will be serving dinner. Attached, please find a set of readings that will be the springboard for our discussion. 

Vyjayanthi Rao, “Urbanism Beyond Architecture: African Cities as Infrastructure: A conversation with Felipe de Boek, and Abdou Maliq Simone,” African Cities Reader: 23-40.
 
Saidiya Hartman, "The Terrible Beauty of the Slum," Brick: A Literary Journal.

Saskia Sassen, “Land Grabs Today: Feeding the Disassembling of National Territories,” Globalizations, 10:1: 25-46.

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