GGR313H5 Lecture 9: GGR313 Lecture 9 (June 4, 2013).docx
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Fear, public space and the right to the city. It will also include participation on june 6 and 13 (however, if you don"t come those days, your actual mark will be lower) Read closely the pulido reading for thursday"s class and consider how you would organize an urban social movement and what issues you would organize around. Fear and public space: bringing many things together, tying them together i"ll talk about fear and its role in constructing difference in cities. Going back: public spaces as full of moral and social pollution", public/private, spaces themselves are gendered and racialized, the idealized citizen". Desirable and right person in the public spaces. Part 1: the right to the city: the right to the city is an idea that suggests all urban dwellers should have access to the public. And that people should see themselves reflected in their city.