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Urban Issues

Archimedia, “Archifesto: Towards a Digital Urbanisation of Radical Difference,” Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life, Sarai/CSDS and SONM, 2002, 269–274.

R.K. Biswas, ed. Metropolis Now! Urban Cultures in Global Cities, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Jane Rendell and Alicia Pivaro, eds., The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space, MIT Press, 2002.

Daniel Schwartz, ed., Tales from a Globalizing World, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Thames and Hudson, 2003.

Hilton Judin and Ivan Vladislavic, eds. Blank: Architecture, Apartheid and After, NAi, 1998.

Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities, Blackwell, 1996.

 
Johannesburg and Africa

Rory Bester, Democracy’s Images: Photography and Visual Arts in South Africa, Umeå, 1998.

Lindsay Bremner, Johannesburg: One City, Colliding Worlds, STE, 2004.

Annie E. Coombs, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Duke University Press, 2003.

Achille Mbembe, “Aesthetics of Superfluidity,” Public Culture 16, 3 (2004), 373–405.

Achille Mbembe, “African Modes of Self-Writing,” Public Culture 14, 1 (Jan. 2002), 239–273.

Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall, “Writing the World from an African Metropolis,” Public Culture 16, 3 (2004), 347–372.

Simon Njami, Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2007.

Liz McGregor and Sarah Nuttall, eds., At Risk: Writing On or Over the Edge in South Africa, Jonathan Ball, 2007.

AbdouMaliq Simone, “People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg,” Public Culture 16, 3 (2004), 407–429.

 

India

Keya Ganguly, “Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in Charulata,” Camera Obscura 37 (1996) 157–186.

Jyotindra Jain, Indian Popular Culture: The Conquest of the World as Picture, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and Ajeepay Press, 2004.

Geeta Kapur, When was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, Tulika, 2000.

Johan Pijnapel, Crossing Currents: Video Art and Cultural Identity, Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi, and Mondriaan Foundation, 2006.

Chaitanya Sambrani, ed. Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Asia Society and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2005.

Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life. Sarai/Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and The Society for Old and New Media (SONM), 2002.

Gayatri Singha, Middle Age Spread, Imaging India 1947–2004, National Museum, New Delhi, and Anant Art Gallery, 2004.
 

Globalization and Its Impacts

Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Transformations of Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Norton, 2006.

Lipika Bansal, Paul Keller and Geert Lovink, eds., In The Shade of the Commons: Towards a Culture of Open Networks, Waag Society, 2006. pdf
www.waag.org/project/shade

Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo, “Empire and Multitude: A Dialogue on New Order of Globalization,” Radical Philosophy 126 (July–August 2003), 23–37.

Saskia Sassen, ed. Global Networks, Linked Cities, Routledge, 2002.

McKenzie Wark, “Globalisation from Below: Migration, Sovereignty, Communication,” Sarai Reader 02, Sarai/CSDS and SONM, 2002, 342–349. pdf


Social Space and Social Theory

Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, Routledge, 1994.

C. Greig Crysler, Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment 1960–2000, Routledge, 2003.

Hubert Damisch, Skyline: The Narcissistic City, Stanford University Press, 2001.

Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (1997) Routledge, 2001.

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1980) University of California Press, 1984.

David Harvey, Social Justice and the City, (1973) Blackwell, 1998.

David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, Routledge, 2001.

Jean Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community, University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

 
Art and the Impact of Globalization

Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson, eds., Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices, Black Dog Publishing, 2007.

Zanny Begg, “Photography and the Multitude: Recasting Subjectivity in a Globalised World,” Borderlands 4, 1 (2005).

Iwona Blazwick, ed., Century City—Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Publishing, 2001.

Okwui Enwezor et al., Documenta 11_Platform 5: Ausstellung, Katalog, Hatje Cantz, 2002.

Dilip Parameshewar Gaonkar, “Toward New Imaginaries: An Introduction,” Public Culture 14, 1 (Jan. 2002), 1–19.

Anthony Hoete, ROAM: A Reader in the Aesthetics of Mobility, Black Dog Publishing, 2004.

Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar, eds., Did Someone Say Participate?, MIT Press, 2006.

Jacques Ranciere, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, Continuum, 2006.

Yasmil Raymond and Doryun Chong, Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, 2007.

Raqs Media Collective, “Double Take: Looking at the Documentary,” 2000.

Nina Sosna, “Images between Documentary and the Fictive,” Politics and Culture, 2008, no. 2.

Philippe Vergne, ed., How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, 2003.