Reading Schedule for Representations of Place and Space (HUM 3394)

Fall 2007

All reading should be done for the beginning of the section for which they are listed. Most of the papers listed below can be found in on reserve in the library, although a couple might be linked directly to the text below. "S&P" refers to Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977; PSI refers to Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction. Blackwell, 2004. "LL" refers to Lucy Lippard's The Lure of the Local, W. W. Norton, 1997. Some papers are linked to their pdf versions. You may have to be on campus to access the readings, or be logging in to the library. Some of the books are on reserve in the library - these are marked with an asterisk *. This list is subject to revision.

Part 1: Introduction: Theory and History of Representation, Place, and Space

Week 1: Aug. 21, 23
Week 2: Aug. 28, 30

• PSI: Ch. 1, 2, 5.
• S&P: Ch. 1-3.
• LL: Introduction, Ch. 1-3
• Curry, Michael R. "Discursive Displacement and the Seminal Ambiguity of Space and Place." Lievrouw, Leah & Sonia Livingstone, eds. The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICT. London: Sage Publications, 2002: 502-517.

Part 2: Being In Place(s), Representing the Places We Are In.

Week 3: Sept. 4, 6
Week 4: Sept. 11, 13
Week 5: Sept. 18, 20

• *Martin Heidegger. "Building Dwelling Thinking" in Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. Harper and Row, 1971: 145-161.
• Interview with Shaun Gallagher
• James Gibson, Purple Perils on embodiment and affordances:
  • "A Preliminary Description and Classification of Affordances"
  • "More on Affordances"
  • "What is Perceived? Notes for a Reclassification of the Visible Properties of the Environment"
  • "On the Difference Between Perception and Proprioception"
• Hubert Dreyfus, "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment"
• S&P: Ch. 4-10.

Part 3: Building Place

Week 6: Sept. 25, 27
Week 7: Oct. 2, 4
Week 8: Oct. 9, 11

• *Henri Lefebvre. The Production of Space. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991: 26-53.
• Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces"
• Bruce Janz, "Walls and Borders: The Range of Place" City and Community 4:1 (March 2005)
• Bruce Janz, "Whistler's Fog and the Aesthetics of Place" Reconstruction 5:3 (Spring 2005) or here.
• PSI: Ch. 3.

Part 4: Imagining Place

Week 9: Oct. 16, 18
Week 10: Oct. 23, 25

• LL - rest of the book
• *Martin W. Lewis & Kären E. Wigen, "The Architecture of Continents" in The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. 21-46.

Part 5: Navigating, Understanding, Connecting with Place

Week 11: Oct. 30, Nov. 1
Week 12: Nov. 6, 8
Week 13: Nov. 13, 15

• Bruce Janz, "Artistic Production as Place-Making Imagination"
• Bird, S. Elizabeth, "It Makes Sense to Us: Cultural Identity in Local Legends of Place" Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 31:5 (October 2002): 519-547.
• Jennifer Cross, "What is Sense of Place?"
• PSI: Ch. 4.
• S&P: Ch. 11-14.