Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Theoretical perspectives on space and place: Introduction to concepts
of space and place, construction of place, Topophilia, Space as
productive of social relations, Time-space compression, How power acts
spatially: panopticon, surveillance and the spaces of everyday life,
Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a network,
relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of space,
representations of space and place, space and place as contested.
- Theoretical perspectives on identity: Identity as constructed:
construction of identity, spatialized identity, Concepts of otherness,
orientalism, gender, race, class, caste, linguistic identity and
intersectionality, theorizing colonialism and national identity,
performance of identity, theorizing globalization and construction of
diasporic idenitities, non-places and places of flows, migration and
identity, notion of scale and identity (home, local, national,
global), postcolonial identity, politics of nature and identity,
claiming subaltern identities, introduction to dalit studies, identity
and exclusion; consumption, capitalism and glocal identities.
- Contextualizing theory: Regional, linguistic identity and the history
of Indian states, case studies of identity struggles and politics in
the contemporary world, Analysis of one's own identity
(gendered/class/national/caste etc.) and how it is constructed and
contested in public and private spaces of everyday life.
- H. Lefebvre, The production of Space, Wiley-Blackwell (1992).
- D. Massey, For Space, Sage (2005).
- P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin and G. Valentine (Eds.) Key Thinkers on
Space and Place, Sage (2004).
- E. Said, Orientalism, Vintage, New York (1979).
- B. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and
Spread of Nationalism, Verso, New York (1991).
- J. Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of
Identity, Routledge (1999).
- R. Guha, A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995, Oxford
University Press, India (2000).
- J. C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain schemes to Improve
the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale University Press (1998).
- R. Ray and S. Qayum, Cultures Of Servitude: Modernity,
Domesticity, and Class in India, Stanford University Press (2009).
