Urbánní antropologie JSM 027
Section outline
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to selected topics addressed by urban anthropology, the development and logic by which sociology and anthropology conceptualize the urban people, and their behavior in the context of the transformations of urban space and the evolution of the discipline.
1. Course completion requirements:
Course attendance and topic understanding demonstrated by completing four tasks with different scores. Total max 100 points.
Task 1 – 5points
Task 2 – 25 points
Task 3 – 30 points
Task 4 – 40 points
2. All tasks are completed in the form of original academic texts submitted to Moodle.
Task 1. – one paragraph (500 characters)
Please answer the following questions
Please answer the following questions: What motivates you to attend this course? What do you expect to learn here? What do you not find in this syllabus that an urban anthropology course should focus on?
Task 2. – two pages (3600 characters)
Discuss the schools introduced in the previous lectures and show their strengths and weaknesses.
(Chicago, Manchester, LA, Birmingham schools,)
Task 3. – three pages (Fill up the questionnaire)
Observation of a Prague public spaces and filling up the questionnaire about it.
Task 4. – five pages (9000 characters)
The future development of the cities. There are various visions of how cities will continue to evolve, what the differences will be from current urbanisation. Find literature on this topic and, based on this literature and your own inventiveness, consider scenarios for the future development of cities and urban agglomerations.
Texts are submitted in the form of "written original texts" to Moodle. The questionnaire will be distributed by an e mail. The texts (exclude the first and third one) should include the objectives of the text, the basic research question, an assessment of the state of knowledge of the subject, a description of the method used to address the research question, a conclusion, and references to sources and literature. Each of the points can be a short paragraph, but the paper should include it.
The texts are assessed from the point of view of the research rigidity, richness of thought, quality of literature and inventiveness.
The text must be written by the student being examined, and all sources must be cited. See: https://iss.fsv.cuni.cz/index.php/studium/bc-mgr-prace/plagiatorstvi
AI can be used. If it is used as a search engine, there is no need to cite it. If a sentence, part of a sentence, or a concept it directly 'created' is taken, it should be cited like any other source.
Marking:
100 - 91: A (excellent, excellent performance with small errors)
81-90: B (very good, above-average performance, but with some bugs)
71 - 80: C (good, overall good performance with some significant errors)
61-70: D (satisfactory, acceptable performance, but with significant shortcomings)
51-60: E (sufficient, performance meets minimum requirements)
50 - 0: F (did not meet the requirements for the course) -
0. Introduction, syllabus
1. . Conceptualization of urban space. The historicizing European approach, the Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles schools. The Chicago School in more detail.Literature:
•Dennis R. Judd 2011. Theorizing City. In Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson (eds), City Revisited. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 3–27. -
2. Typology of urban space, New York and LA Schools in more detail.
Hunter, M. A. 2014. Urbanism and Symbolic Economies. A Comparative Assessment of American Urban Sociology. Comparative Sociology 13: 185–199.
Recommended reading:
Dear, M., Dahmann, N. 2011. Urban Politics and the Los Angeles School of Urbanism. In: Judd, D.R., Simpson, D. (eds) The City, Revisited Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press: 65–78.
Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980: 18 - 58.
Robert Ezra Park, The City. Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916: 1 - 46. -
3. Local versus Global Approach and Holistic versus Particularist Perspective. Manchester School in contemporary assessment-
Reyes, V. 2019. Global Ethnography: Lessons from the Chicago School. In: Ocejo, R. E. Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges. NY: CUNY :44–66.
Recommended Reading:
Burawoy, M. 2000. Introduction. Reading for the Global. In: Burawoy M. (ed), Global Ethnography: Forces Connections and Imaginations of Post-modern World. Berkley: University of California Press: 1–40.
Hannerz, U. 1980 Exploring the City. NY: NY: Columbia University Press: 119–162.
Epstein, AL Senes: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
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4.
Urban dweller Robert Redfied, Louis Wirth, Kevin Lynch, Birmingham School, and Herbert Gans.
Compulsory reading:
Borer, M.I. 2018. Being in the City: The Sociology of Urban Experiences. Sociology Compass, 7: 965–983.
Recommended reading
Wirth, L. 1938. Urbanism as a Way of Life. American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 1-24.
Redfield, R. 1953. The Primitive World and Its Transformations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1953).
Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gans, H. 2013. Urbanism and Suburbanism as a Way of Life. In Rose, A.M. (1962). Human Behavior and Social Processes: An Interactionist Approach. London: Routledge: 625–648.
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5. Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Concepts of the City and an Excursus into the Functionalism in Architecture and City Planning
Compulsory reading:
Lang, J., Moleski, W., 2013. Functionalism Revisited: Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences. London, NY: Routledge 31–72.
Recommended reading:
Larice, M., Macdonald, E. (eds). 2013. The Urban Design Reader. London, New York: Routledge.
Filler, M. 2013. Markers of Modern Achitecture II. NY: NYRB: 49–74.
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a) German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a tribal community metaphor, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and mass media, German contemporaries.
b) Urban sociology and anthropology in the Interwar in the Czech lands
Literature:
Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.
Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 - 127.
6. Methodology of Studying Urban Dweller: Constructing anthropological objects, Case study, Network Analysis, Social Distance Study, Ethnography of City; Ethnography of the City; Ethnography in the City.
(Social Institutions in the City, Nordic Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Gothenburg School.
Compulsory reading:
Jensen, K., Auyero, J. 2019. Teaching and Learning the Craft: The Construction of Ethnographic Objects. In: Ocejo, R. E. Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges. NY: CUNY: 88–111.
Recommended reading:
Hunter, M. A. 2014. Urbanism and Symbolic Economies. A Comparative Assessment of American Urban Sociology. Comparative Sociology 13: 185–199.
Literature:
Douglas Mary, Think Institutions. Syracuse University Press 1986.
Ek, Sven B. Noden and Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.)
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8.
Public Space, Public Greenery, Insiders, Outsiders, Tourists
Compulsory reading
Gehl, J. 2011. Life between buildings. Using Public Space. Washington DC: Island Press.
Recommended reading:
Uherek, Z. 2017. Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy. In. Krase, J.–Uherek, Z., et al. Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration: 93–109.
Huai, S., & Van de Voorde, T. (2022). Which environmental features contribute to positive and negative perceptions of urban parks? A cross-cultural comparison using online reviews and Natural Language Processing methods. Landscape and Urban Planning, 218.
Question 3. Observation of a Prague public space. New knowledge gained from one's own academic activities.
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a) Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City.
b) Amsterdam urban anthropology, concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps ..
Literature:
Lynch, Kevin The Image of the City. MIT Press 1960-
Brunt, Lodevijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.
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11. Post-modern Cities and Edge Cities
Compulsory reading:
Day, J., Phelps, N.A., Veeroja, P., Yang, X. 2022. From Edge City to City? Journal of the American Planning Association, 88:4, 565–577.
Recommended reading:
Garreau J. 1991 Edge City: Life on the Frontiers. New York, Doubleday.
Oatley, N. 2001. L'Apparition de l'Edge (of) City: quels mots pour les nouveaux espaces urbains? In: Riviere d´Arc, H. (ed.) Nommer les nouveaux territoires urbains. Paris: UNESCO: 17–38.
Simpson, D., Kelly, T. 2011. Studying Twenty-first Century Cities. Judd, D.R., Simpson, D. (eds) The City, Revisited Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Mineapolis, London: University of Minesota Press: 356 – 366.