GPHY 229
Place, Space, Culture, and Social Life
Winter 2027
Topics
- Place, Space, Culture, and Social Life
- colonialism
- diaspora
- ecology
- capitalism
- identity
Readings
- Orozco, Elva Fabiola. (2019). Mapping the trail of violence: The memorialization of public space as a counter-geography of violence in Ciudad Juárez. Journal of Latin American Geography 18(3): 132-157.; Rosenberg, Rae & Oswin, Natalie. (2015). Trans embodiment in carceral space: Hypermasculinity and the US prison industrial complex. Gender, Place & Culture 22(9).; Trotz, Alissa. (2011). Bustling across the Canada-US border: Gender and the remapping of the Caribbean across place. Small Axe 15(2): 59-77.; Shabazz, Rashad (Nov 2021). Prince & Place: A primer on the geography of music. Places Journal.; Blood Quantum [film]; Liboiron, Max. (2021). Pollution is Colonialism. Duke University Press. [selections]; Chariandy, David. (2017). Brother. Random House. [novel]; Mountz, Alison. (2011). The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on islands. Political Geography 30: 118-128.; Said, Edward. (1978). Orientalism (Introduction). Pantheon Books.; Freire-Medeiros, Bianca (2009). The favela and its touristic transits. Geoforum 40: 580-588.; Walia, Harsha (2021). Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Fernwood Publishing
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Winter 2027
- Topics condensed from the course title, topic headings and terms in the published description. Source labels these as course materials; required versus recommended status is not specified. Public departmental HTML description; not necessarily a complete syllabus. Separate source variants are retained.