Readings

Week 1 (January 30)

Powerpoint

Week 1 (February 1st)

The Age of Earth

Physical vs. Human Geography (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 2 (February 6)

Nature vs. Culture

Boundless Nature?

The Production of Nature (Optional)

Privatizing Public Lands (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 2 (February 8)

Biodiversity

The Origin of Species

Powerpoint

Week 3 (February 13)

Agricultural Origins

Agriculture Today

Pottery and Agriculture (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 3 (February 15)

The Future of Agriculture

Feeding 9 Billion?

Powerpoint

Week 4 (February 22)

Environmental Determinism

Environmental Determinism: Empire & Geography

Greenland: Case Study (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 5 (February 27)

The Anthropocene

A New Geological Epoch?

Silent Spring

Powerpoint

Week 5 (March 1)

Nuclear Energy

Energy in the Arctic

Mountaintop Removal & Coal Mining

Fracking (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 6 (March 6)

Industrialization in Europe

The Subterranean Forest

Industrialization in Asia (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 6 (March 8)

Time & Work in Industrial Capitalism

Urbanization (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 7 (March 13)

Trains

Space & Time in Postmodernity

Spatial Analysis (Optional)

Airplanes and Labor (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 7 (March 15)

Cars

Suburbs

Roads (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 8 (March 20)

The Purge of New York

Franklin Avenue

Gentrification

Powerpoint

Week 8 (March 22)

Gentrification & Eviction (Optional)

Money, Space, and the City (Optional)

Week 9 (March 27)

Barclay’s Center Economics

Atlantic Yards Deal

Dakota Access Pipeline

Standing Rock Protests

Powerpoint

Week 9 (March 29)

Transnationalism

Economic Mobility & Dreamer Act

Border Patrol

DACA & Government Shutdown (Optional)

Illegal vs. Undocumented (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 11 (April 10)

Neoliberalism

Paradise Papers & Off-shore Havens

Geography of Class (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 11 (April 12)

Enclosing Common Land

Week 12 (April 17)

Cartography of Globalization

Belo Monte Megadam

Powerpoint

Week 12 (April 19)

Malthusian Population Growth

Population & Resources

Powerpoint

Week 13 (April 24)

The Case of Bitcoin

Limits to Growth

Powerpoint

Week 13 (April 26)

A Safe Operating Space

Natural Infrastructures in Louisiana

Powerpoint

Week 14 (May 1)

Global Poverty

Hunger & Vulnerability

Week 14 (May 3)

Islam in France

Religion & Politics

Fundamentalism & Violence (Optional)

Powerpoint

Week 15 (May 8)

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Female Soldiers in Israel

Bangladesh’s Third Gender

Bisexuality in African Ethnography (Optional)

Week 15 (May 10)

The Highline

Greenpoint Oil Spill

Zoning in NYC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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