Urban Confab

New Orleans and disaster capitalism

urbanconfab — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:15 +0000

The second meeting considering New Orleans and disaster capitalism will be Wednesday 21st May at 5pm

We’ll screen the fourth act of Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke: A requiem in Four Acts (2006) and then have a discussion of the following four texts:

As usual we’ll be in Room 108 on the First Floor of UCL Geography, Bedford Way.
www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/

Readings:
Klein, N. 2007: The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism, Introduction and Chapter 19 ‘Blanking the Beach: the Second Tsunami’
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/excerpt

Gandy, M. 2006: The Drowned World: J. G. Ballard and the Politics of Catastrophe
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/9/1/86
(there are a range of other very short articles from this special issue on New Orleans here: http://sac.sagepub.com/content/vol9/issue1/)

Cornell West 2005: Exiles from a city and a nation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/11/hurricanekatrina.comment/print

Peck, J. 2006: Liberating the city: between New York and New Orleans. Urban Geography, 2006, 27, 8, pp. 681-713.
http://bellwether.metapress.com/content/yr22270716276t63/fulltext.pdf

3. New Orleans and disaster capitalism (Caz)

urbanconfab — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:15:09 +0000

7th May, 4:30pm

Room 108 on the First Floor of UCL Geography, Bedford Way.

www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/

Spike Lee (2006) When the Levees Broke: A requiem in Four Acts

2. Paris: from utopian architectures to dystopian social landscapes (Leo)

urbanconfab — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:06:26 +0000

Thursday 13th March

Dikeç, M., 2007 “State’s Statements: Urban Policy as Place-Making” in Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy, London: Blackwell, pp. 16-34.
Pinder, D., 2000 “Old Paris is no more: Geographies of spectacle and anti-spectacle”, Antipode 32:4, pp. 357-386.

2. Paris: from utopian architectures to dystopian social landscapes (Leo)

urbanconfab — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:09:56 +0000

29th February

Film: Alphaville (1965)

John Armitage: Escape from Alphaville (2005)

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/cpij/2005/00000001/00000003/art00005

1. Mumbai: urban infrastructure and violence (Andrew)

urbanconfab — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:05:53 +0000

7^th February

Satya (1998) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0195231/

Mehta, S. 2005: Maximum City, pgs 207-224
Hansen, TB.2001: Wages of Violence. pgs 216-226
Pendse, S. 2003: Satya’s Mumbai, Mumbai’s Satya, pgs 312-321 and 324-329
Zizek, S. 2008: Violence, pgs, 63-68

1. Mumbai: urban infrastructure and violence (Andrew)

urbanconfab — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:05:04 +0000

24^th January

Black Friday (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400234/

Rao, V. 2007: How to Read a Bomb: Scenes from Bombay’s Black Friday. Public Culture 19 (3) http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/3/567