This week’s episode will be a review of previous episodes we have shared on concepts in urban studies and spatial theories. The principle that space is not a container but a symptom and producer of social relations is central to urban studies. Concepts such as chronotopes, spatial traversal, and means of locomotion will be explored as vantage points from which to interpret urban space and the idea of spatiality in general. Also important as an analytical focus is that urban studies is fundamentally interdisciplinary, thus also raising questions about how we define the term and the methods by which we undertake spatial analysis.

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Suggested Readings

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 50th Anniversary Edition, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2012).

Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007)

Christopher Norris, Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics (2000)

Gillian Beer’s Darwin, Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2009)

Julie Thompson Klein, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (1990),

Ato Quayson, Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).

Lindesy Green-Simms, Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa, (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2017).

Jesse Weaver Shipley, Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013)

John Parker, Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra, (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000).

Nat Nuno Amarteifio, Visions of the City: Accra in the 21st Century, (Accra: Woeli Publishers, 2002).

Jenna Burrell, Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012).

Christopher Grau, ed., Philosophers Explore The Matrix, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Farah Mendleshon, Rhetorics of Fantasy, (Wesleyan University Press, 2014).

Edward James and Farah Mendleshon, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Edward James and Farah Mendleshon, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Robin Winks and Gail McGrew “Eifrig, Spy Fiction – Spy Reality: From Conrad to le Carré,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Genre 76: 2/3 (1993): 221-224.

David Seed, “Spy Fiction,” in The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction, edited by Martin Priestman, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 115-134.

Allan Hepburn, “Detectives and Spies,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel, edited by Robert L. Caserio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 210-222.

Clive Bloom, Spy Thrillers: From Buchan to le Carré, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990).

David Trotter, “Women Spies,” in The Literature of Connection: Signal, Medium, Interface, 185-1950, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).

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