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One: An Introduction to the Contemporary Urban Question 17 – 21 September 2012
- Davis, Mike. 2004. ‘Planet of Slums’, New Left Review, No. 26
- Davis, Mike. 2006. ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’, New Left Review, No. 41
- Harvey, David. 2008. ‘The Right to the City’, New Left Review, No. 53.
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Two: Early Modern Cities 24 – 28 September 2012
- Linebaugh, Peter & Rediker, Marcus. 1990. 'The Many Headed Hydra: Slailors, slaves & the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century', Journal of Historical Sociology. Vol. 3, No. 3.
- Engels, Frederick. 1872. 'How the Bourgeoisie Solves the Housing Question', from The Housing Question
- Du Bois, W.E.B. 1889. Excerpts from 'The Philadelphia Negro'.
- Rowbotham, S. 2010. 'Adventurers of the Everyday', Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century (London: Verso)
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Three: The Paris Commune 1 – 5 October 2012
- Marx, Karl. 1871. ‘Paris Commune’, The Civil War in Paris
- Bakunin, Mikhail. 1871. The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State
- Badiou, Alain. 2006. ‘The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics’, Polemics (Verso: London), pp. 258 - 290.
- Ross, Kristin. 2008. ‘The Right to Laziness’, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud & the Paris Commune (Verso: London), pp.47-74.
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Four: The Colonial City
- Van Onselen, Charles. 1984. 'The Small Matter of a Horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948.' Collective Action Notes (Ravan Press: Johannesburg)
- Stadler, Alfred. 1979. Birds in the Cornfield: Squatter Movements in Johannesburg, 1944-1947, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1
- Edwards, Iain. 1996. ‘Cato Manor June 1959’, The People's City (ed. Iain Edwards & Paul Maylam) (University of Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg)
- Fanon, Frantz. 1961. 'On Violence', The Wretched of the Earth. (Penguin: London)
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Five: The Post-Colonial City
- Perlman, Janice.1976. 'Political Marginality'. The Myth of Marginality. (Los Angeles: University of California Press)
- Bayet, Asef. 1997. 'Un-civil society: the politics of the 'informal people'. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 18. No. 1.
- Chatterjee, Partha. 2004. 'Populations & Political Society'. The Politics of the Governed (Delhi: Permanent Black)
- Zibechi, Raul, 2010 'State Powers & Non-State Powers', Dispersing Power (Oakland: AK Press)
Week Six: The Contemporary South African City
- Ballard, Richard. 2004. ' 'Middle Class Neighbourhoods or African Kraals?' The impact of informal settlements and vagrants on white identity in post-apartheid South Africa.', Urban Forum, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 48-73.
- Alexander, Peter. 2010. 'Rebellion of the Poor'. Review of African Political Economy. Vol. 33, . No. 21.
- Selmeczi, Anna. 2012. 'Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization', Journal of Asian & African Studies, Vol. 4, No. 5,
- Sacks, Jared. 2010. 'Sweet Home Report'. Mail & Guardian
