Fall/Winter Timetable
SII199Y1Y L0352
First-Year Seminar
MetroMarxism
Themes
This course analyses the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels alongside secondary texts in a variety of disciplines in order to outline a critical approach to urban studies. In particular, the course follows two main inquiries: What processes shape contemporary urbanization? What possibilities exist for resistance against forms of inequality and exploitation that are cemented in urban spaces? These questions are posed in a variety of contexts, both in the global North and the global South. Potential topics include struggles over the commercialization of space, neoliberal reforms in accumulation and governance, voluntary and involuntary mobilities (ie. tourism and migrations), gentrification, ecological crises, and militarization and surveillance. Comparative cases worldwide enable students to better understand the built environment and their place within it.
Texts
TBA
Format and Requirements
Essays, seminar presentations, tests.
January 29, 2024
The winners of the 2022-2023 undergraduate awards were announced at the annual celebration, held this year on the evening of January 25. Presiding over the award ceremony were Undergraduate Director...
January 26, 2023
Congratulations to our 2021/22 undergraduate award & scholarship recipients! Following a two-year hiatus, the department was delighted to return to hosting our undergraduate awards in-person this year to celebrate our...
June 3, 2021
In a bid to motivate her students in what has been a very difficult academic year, Professor Rebecca Kingston decided to give those enrolled in the winter 2021 term of...
May 21, 2020
Congratulations to undergraduate student Cheryl Cheung who has received a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA). Going into her third year majoring in political science, with minors in visual studies...
January 29, 2020
Congratulations to all our amazing undergraduate students who picked up one the department’s twenty-three awards and scholarships at our annual undergraduate awards ceremony. In attendance were Dean of Arts &...