It has taken me weeks to write this post because the discussions about modernist architecture are so politically complicated and politically important. I hope that this post conveys this. By Johanna Bockman. In my R...
Cultural Capital and the City: reflections on Manchester “This chapter reflects on how we can register the relationship between the city of Manchester, its cultural institutions, and the wider social and cultural s...
As Walter Benjamin writes in his memoir Berlin Childhood Around 1900, “not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, ...
By Johanna Bockman. I wrote a post for my own blog “Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward 6” about the television show “The Wire.” While I mostly discuss American cities, the problems mentioned he...
By Nazia Hussain. The Syrian conflict that has been raging since the past three years has generated debate in the international community for many reasons. However, one story that sheds some light on the emergence of an ...
By Jo-Marie Burt. After the verdict against former de facto president José Efraín Ríos Montt was vacated by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, the debate over whether or not there was genocide in Guatemala is playing out ...
“How American Urban Segregation Outlived Apartheid and Other Tales from a World History of Divided Cities” Cities and Globalization Working Group Spring Lecture Professor Carl H. Nightingale, University of Buffalo Thursd...
The Cities & Globalization Working Group is a group of faculty and graduate students at George Mason University. Interest in the study of cities in global context, and of cities as transnational spaces where globalization is produced, experienced, and challenged, has grown dramatically in recent years. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines have turned their attention to urban spaces, which for the first time in history are home to a majority of the urban population. The purpose of the working group is to both contribute a distinctive voice to this interdisciplinary inquiry and to develop a collaborative space, drawing from the considerable expertise that exists within the university. More