Social Theory and Space

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Course description: The spatial turn in social sciences is examined by reviewing the importance given to space in sociology in general and urban sociology in particular. The course is dedicated to Zimmel’s thoughts on metropolis, Sombart’s and Weber’s analysis of the role of city in developing modern capitalism, Lefebvre’s social production of space and right to the city, Castell’s work on information society and city, Foucalt’s idea of space and disciplinary power, Harvey’s work on neoliberalism and contempor

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Literature/Reading:

• S. Vujović, Grad i društvo, IIC SSOS, Beograd, 1982
• Barney Warf and Santa Arias (eds) .2009. The spatial turn: interdisciplinary perspectives. Routledge.
• Andrzej Zieleniec. 2007. Space and Social Theory. Sage Publication.
• Kanishka Goonewardena . . . [et al.]. eds. 2008. Space, difference, everyday life : reading Henri Lefebvre
• Anri Lefevr, Teorija prostora, (izbor tekstova), čas. „Treći program“ Radio Beograd, br. 45, II, 1980, str. 513 – 651.
• Stuart Elden. 2004 Understanding Henri Lefebvre Theory and the Possible. London: Continuum
• Frisby, David.; Featherstone, Mike (eds). 1997. Simmel on Culture. Sage Publications
• Kian Tajbakhsh. 2001. The Promise of the City Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought. University of California Press.
• Georg Zimel, 1858-2008, priredio Dušan Marinković, Mediteran, Novi Sad, 2008
• Verner Zombart, Luksuz i kapitalizam, Mediteran, Novi Sad, 2011
• Castells, M. 2009. Communication Power. Oxford University Press.
• Harvey, D. 2009. Cospomolitanism and Geography of Freedom. Columbia University Press.
• Harvey, D. 2012. Rebel Cities.London: Verso.
• Cities, classes, and the social order I Anthony Leeds ; edited by Roger Sanjek.1994. Cornell University Press.
• Kellerman, A. 1989. Time, space, society. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Džordž Ricer, „Unapređenje veštine upravljanja (i ostale grand teorije)“ u Savremena sociološka teorija i njeni klasićni koreni, Službeni glasnik, Beograd, 2009,
• Mišel Fuko – 1926 – 1984 – hrestomatija, prir. P. Milenković i D.Marinković, Novi Sad, 2005,
• Castells, Manuel (2001) The internet galaxy- reflections on the internet, business and society, Oxford, University Press, New York
• Amin, A. Post-Fordism: a Reader. 2000. Blackwell Publishers.
• Lash, S, and Urry, J. 2002. Economies of Sign and Space. Sage Publications.
• Thirft, N. 2000. Thinking Space. Routledge.
• Gregory, D, Castree, N. 2006. David Harvey: A Critical Reader. Blackwell Publishers.
• Tonkiss, F. 2005. Space, the city and social theory. Polity press.