Cities of the Global South

This course covers key phenomena and concepts of social life in cities through a transnational comparison of cases that span beyond the typical focus on the US. Instead, we focus on cities as global phenomena – the world population now being mostly urban for the first time ever – with issues of urban structure, connections, and subjectivities only fully comprehensible through perspectives that surpass a domestic lens. To do this, we will focus on cities in the “global South.” Our goal is to understand many of the key issues that mediate the urban experience, including inequalities, infrastructure, security, violence, and citizenship.