[Urban-Media] Additional Readings for TUESDAY

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet for our next session this coming TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER in MIT
Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. when
Tulasi Srinivas from Georgetown University will present on "Divine
Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu
Temples in Bangalore" followed by discussion of the article and other
texts below. 

Please note that there are three additional supplementary texts by Peter
Hall, David Harvey, and Wayne Ashley listed below. My apologies for the
late posting. 

PRIMARY TEXT

Tulasi Srinivas, "Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in
Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore", South Asia: Journal of South
Asian Studies, Vol.XXIX, no.3, December 2006
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/srinivas_bangalore.pdf


SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Wayne Ashley, "The Stations of the Cross: Christ, Politics, and
Processions on New York City's Lower East Side" in Robert Orsi, ed. Gods
of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape, Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999, pp.341-366
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/ashley_stations_cross.pdf

David Harvey, "Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation" (chapter 7) and
"Cartographic Identities: Geographical Knowledges Under
Globalization" (chapter 11) from Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical
Geography, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp.121-127 and pp.208-236
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/harvey_spaces_capital.pdf

Peter Hall, "The City of Enterprise: Planning Turned Upside Down:
Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-1987" in Cities of Tomorrow: An
Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth
Century, London: Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp.342-260
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/hall_city_enterprise.pdf

Janaki Nair, "Battles for Bangalore: Re-Territorialising the City",
paper published by SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Program for Research on
the History of Development), International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, 2002
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/nair_bangalore.pdf

James Heitzman, "Becoming Silicon Valley", Seminar 503 on Globalization,
New Delhi, July 2001
http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/503/503%20james%20heitzman.htm


Please note that this will be our last session this semester. As usual,
I will order meals for everyone. Please let me know if you are NOT
coming so I can adjust the food order accordingly. 


Best, 


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
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