Culture, Justice and Urban Space
Description: Urban geographers at Syracuse join the study of urban landscapes, politics, and processes to broader struggles for racial and gender equality, social justice, and political transformation. Through projects that range from constructing urban geographies of memory to deconstructing new spatial strategies of refugee containment in settler societies, Syracuse geographers draw on a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, particularly social theory, to interrogate the production of urban spaces and experiences. With connections to historical, feminist, cultural, and Marxist geographies, urban geographers in this research cluster focus their scholarship and teaching on North America, Europe, southern Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. In doing so, they pay particular attention to the ways that gender, class, and race/ethnicity are drawn into the creation and negotiation of the urban built environment and social systems. Current research topics include struggles over urban public spaces, operations of borders across scales, Latino migration’s impacts on racial formations and politics, the feminization of professionalized work, and geographies of memory in postindustrial cities in Central New York and border cites in eastern France.
Faculty
Don Mitchell (Cultural geography, historical geography, labor, social theory, Marxist approaches to geography)
Anne Mosher (Historical geography, urban geography, social geography, United States)
Alison Mountz (Social geographies of transnational migration; cultural geographies of power, the nation-state, and the border; feminist and urban geography; research methodologies)
David Robinson (Historical geography of Latin America; colonial urban space; documentary sources)
John Western (Social geography, cultural geography, urban geography, France, Southern Africa)
Jamie Winders (Race/ethnicity, gender, migration, social theory, US South, urban and historical geography, research methods)
Related Courses
Undergraduate
GEO 219 American Diversity & Unity (honors)
GEO 272 World Cultures
GEO 273 World Political Economy
GEO 311 The New North Americas
GEO 313 The United States
GEO 353 Environmental Justice
GEO 362 The European City
GEO 363 Cities of North America
GEO 367 Gender in a Globalizing World
GEO 372 Political Geography
GEO 415 Food: A Critical Geography
GEO 440 Race and Space
GEO 463 Geography of Homelessness
Graduate/Undergraduate
GEO 500 Borders in Syracuse
GEO 500 Geography of Memory
GEO 500 Sexuality and Space
GEO 563 The Urban Condition: Life and Struggle in the Contested City
GEO 564 Urban Historical Geography
GEO 572 Landscape Interpretation
GEO 573 Geography of Capital
GEO 576 Gender, Space, & Place
Graduate
GEO 602 Research Design in Geography
GEO 700 Border Theory/Migration
GEO 770 Seminar in Cultural Geography
GEO 774 Seminar in Historical Geography
GEO 763 Interdisciplinary Theories of Space and Place
GEO 815 Seminar in Urban Geography
GEO 876 Seminar in Feminist Geography