SGO4401 - Syllabus/achievement requirements

Course literature for SGO4401 is only available in electronic format. Most of the material can be accessed through internet links provided below, but much of the access requires that you use a UiO computer. Some of the course literature is available on the course's homepage in Fronter (this requires that you are registered as a SGO4401 student).

Introduction: Human Geography and Political Representation

@ Stokke, K. and Sæther, E. (2009). Political Geography in Norway. Current State and Future Prospects. Norwegian Journal of Geography 64(4): 211-215. (5 pages).

Democratization Dynamics

@ Barnett, C. and Low, M. (2004). Geography and Democracy: An Introduction. In C. Barnett and M. Low (eds.), Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation. London: Sage. pp. 1-22. (22 pages)

@ Carothers, T. (2002). The end of the transition paradigm. Journal of Democracy 13(1): 5-21. (17 pages)

@ Carothers, T. (2007a). How Democracies Emerge. The “Sequencing” Fallacy. Journal of Democracy 18(1): 12-27. (16 pages)

@ Carothers, T. (2007b). Misunderstanding Gradualism. Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 18-22. (5 pages)

@ Luckham, R., Goetz, A.M. and Kaldor, M. (2003). Democratic institutions and democratic politics. In S. Bastian and R. Luckham (eds.), Can democracy be designed? The politics of institutional choice in conflict torn societies. London: Zed. pp. 14-59. (45 pages)

@ Mansfield, E.D. and Snyder, J. (2007). The Sequencing ‘Fallacy’. Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-9. (5 pages)

Stokke, K. (in print 2013). Substantiating Democracy: The Importance of Popular Representation and Transformative Democratic Politics. In S. Parnell and S. Oldfield (eds.), A Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. London: Routledge. (16 pages) manuscript on fronter

Politics of Governance Transformations

@ Lindell, I. (2008). The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city. Urban Studies 45(9): 1879-1901. (22 pages)

@ MacKinnon, D. (2011). Reconstructing scale: Towards a new scalar politics. Progress in Human Geography 35(1): 21-36. (16 pages)

@ Melo, M. and Baiocchi, G. (2006). Deliberative democracy and local governance: towards a new agenda. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(3): 587–600. (14 pages)

@ Swyngedouw, E. (2005). Governance innovation and the citizen: the janus face of governance-beyond-the state. Urban Studies 42(11): 1991-2006. (16 pages)

Spaces of Citizenship

@ Hammet, D. (2008). The challenge of a perception of ‘un-entitlement’ to citizenship in post-Apartheid South Africa. Political Geography 27(6): 652-668. (17 pages)

@ Mohan, G. (2007). Participatory Development: from Epistemological Reversals to Active Citizenship. Geography Compass 1(4): 779-796. (18 pages)

@ Miraftab, F. and Willis, S. (2005). Insurgency and spaces of active citizenship: The story of Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa. Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(2): 200-217. (18 pages)

@ Robins, S., Cornwall, A. and von Lieres, B. (2008). Rethinking citizenship in the postcolony. Third World Quarterly 29(6): 1069-1086. (18 pages)

Civil Society and Political Representation

@ Dagnio, E. (2011). Civil Society in Latin America: Participatory Citizens or Service Providers? In H. Moksnes and M. Melin (eds.), Power to the People? (Con-)tested Civil Society in Search of Democracy. Uppsala: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development. pp. 23-39. (17 pages)

@ Haarstad, H. (2007). Collective political subjectivity and the problem of scale. Contemporary Politics 13(1): 57-74 (18 pages)

Houtzager, P.T. and Lavalle, A.G. (2009). The paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil. In O. Törnquist, N. Webster, ans K. Stokke (eds.) , Rethinking Popular Representation. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 39-58. (15 pages). Will be made available on fronter

@ McIlwaine, C. (2007). From Local to Global to Transnational Civil Society: Re-Framing Development Perspectives on the Non-State Sector. Geography Compass 1(6): 1252-1281. (30 pages)

@ Obadare, E. (2011). Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa. In M. Edwards (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 183-194. (11 pages)

@ Randall, V. (2007). Political Parties and Democratic Developmental States. Development Policy Review 25(5): 633-652. (20 pages)

Changing Geographies of Work and Unionism

@ Johns, R. and Vural, L. (2000). Class, geography and the consumerist turn: UNITE and the Stop Sweatshops Campaign. Environment and Planning A 32: 1193-1214. (22 pages)

@ Jordhus-Lier, D. (2013). The geographies of community-oriented unionism: scales, targets, sites and domains of union renewal in South Africa and beyond. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38(1): 36-49. (14 pages)

@ Lier, D.C. and K. Stokke (2006). Maximum working class unity? Challenges to local social movement unionism in Cape Town. Antipode 38(4): 802-24. (23 pages)

@ Sadler, D. (2004). Trade unions, coalitions and communities: Australia's Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the international stakeholder campaign against Rio Tinto. Geoforum 35(1): 35-46. (12 pages)

@ Tufts, S. (1998). Community unionism in Canada and labour's (re)organizing of space. Antipode 30(3): 227-250. (24 pages)

Politics of Informality

@ McFarlane, C. (2012). Rethinking informality: politics, crisis, and the city. Planning Theory & Practice 13(1): 89-108. (20 pages)

@ Roy, A. (2005). Urban informality: toward an epistemology of planning. Journal of the American Planning Association 71(2): 147-158. (12 pages)

@ McFarlane, C. (2008). Sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements: state,'slum'and infrastructure. Environment and planning A 40(1): 88-107. (20 pages)

@ Brownill, S. and Halford, S. (1990). Understanding women's involvement in local politics: how useful is a formal/informal dichotomy? Political Geography Quarterly 9(4): 396-414. (19 pages)

Workers and informality: organising forms and strategies

@ Lindell, I. (2010). Informality and collective organising: identities, alliances and transnational activism in Africa. Third World Quarterly 31(2): 207-222. (16 pages)

@ Gallin, D. (2001). Propositions on trade unions and informal employment in times of globalisation. Antipode 33(3): 531-549.   (19 pages)

@ Lloyd-Evans, S. (2008). Geographies of the contemporary informal sector in the global south: gender, employment relationships and social protection. Geography Compass 2(6): 1885-1906. (22 pages)

@ Millstein, M., and Jordhus-Lier, D. (2012). Making communities work? Casual labour practices and local civil society dynamics in Delft, Cape Town. Journal of Southern African Studies 38(1): 183-201. (19 pages)      

Mediated Representations

@ Chouliaraki, L. (2006). The aestheticization of suffering on television. Visual Communication 5(3): 261-285. (15 pages)

@ Höijer, B. (2004). The discourse of global compassion: the audience and meda reporting of human suffering. Media, Culture and Society 26(4): 513-531. (19 pages)

@ Sæther, E. (2008). A New Political Role? Discursive strategies of critical journalists in China. China aktuell. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4: 5-29. (25 pages)

Material and Symbolic Practices in Political Networks

@ Knox, H., Savage, M. and Harvey, P. (2006). Social networks and the study of relations: networks as method, metaphor and form. Economy and Society 35(1): 113-140. (28 pages)

@ Lindell, I. (2001). Social networks and urban vulnerability to hunger. In A. Tostensen, I. Tvedten and M. Vaa (eds.), Associational life in African cities. Popular responses to the urban crisis. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute. pp. 30-45. (16 pages)

Stokke, K. and Selboe, E. (2009). Practices of Symbolic Representation. In. O. Törnquist, N. Webster and K. Stokke (eds.) Rethinking Popular Representation. Houndmills: Palgrave. pp. 59-78. (20 pages) Will be made available on fronter