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 105 World Geography
GEO 171 Introduction to Human Geography (Winders)
GEO 272 World Cultures (Mitchell)
GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity (Western)
GEO 311 The New North Americas (Winders)
GEO 313 The United States (Mosher)
GEO 323 Latino USA (Robinson)
GEO 325 Colonialism in Latin America (Robinson)
GEO 331 The European Union (Western)
GEO 362 Cities of Europe (Western)
GEO 363 Cities of North America
GEO 372 Political Geography (Mountz)
GEO 491 Senior Seminar in Geography (Western)

Graduate/Undergraduate
GEO/ARC/WSP 500 City of Syracuse: Gender, Geography, Architecture (Brown/Mountz)
GEO 500 Geographies of Memory (Mosher)
GEO 500 Globalization, Caribbean & City
GEO 500 Race and Geography (Winders)
GEO 563 The Urban Condition (Mountz)
GEO 564 Urban Historical Geography (Mosher)
GEO 570 Research on Cultural Geography
GEO 572 Landscape Interpretation in Cultural Geography
GEO 573 The Geography of Capital (Mitchell)

Graduate
GEO 602 Research Design in Geography (Mountz)
GEO 700 Border Theory/Migration (Mountz)
GEO 770 Seminar in Cultural Geography
GEO 774 Seminar in Historical Geography (Mosher)
GEO 763 Interdisciplinary Theories of Space and Place (Mosher)
GEO 815 Seminar in Urban Geography (Winders)
GEO 876 Seminar in Feminist Geography (Mountz)