Session 1 Readings: Politics of Comparison
- 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.