Due to recent changes to our schedule caused by the accommodation of two guest lectures from job applicants, there will be no more Crowdsources. Please use the additional time over the next week to finish assignment 3 and the first part of assignment 4....
The Politics Bread and Circus
This week let’s use the crowdsource to discuss Eisinger’s piece, “The Politics of Bread and Circus”. After the 1974 Fiscal Crisis, New York City assumes a new economic orientation, and Eisinger discusses a specific component of this new orientation. What is this new economic orientation? How does it contrast with the economic orientation of the city prior...
CROWDSOURCE: Two options this week!
Hi all, I couldn’t decide what I wanted you all to focus on this week, so I’m going to offer two options of focus. Follow one of the links to comment the crowdsource you are more interested in reflecting on. We will cover both in class. You should do all the reading for this week...
The making of the American Ghetto
This week let’s use the crowdsource to the making of the American Ghetto. There are many things to speak to this week, but something important to consider is: What does the word ‘ghetto’ actually mean – in contrast to the colloquial way we use it in the US – and how does this map onto...
Unraveling the Intersections of Inequality
This week let’s use the crowdsource to have a general conversation about economic inequality, and to lay out some of the specific intersections and disparities that exist within the realm of economic inequality. Moreover, I want us to consider how we think these disparities have come about, and what material and social and political consequences...
Why Poverty?
This week let’s use the crowdsource to discuss Goldsmith and Blakely’s (2010) chapter, “Top-down Economics and Bottom-up Politics” in their book, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality. We will use this crowdsource as a way to being making sense of this chapter together. Specifically, the chapter presents three perspectives on the question, ‘Why does poverty exist?’. What are the various...
Crowdsource: Overview
During the first half of the semester, we as a class will crowdsource our understanding of a particular article. I will post a prompt to the course website every Wednesday after class, and students will have until 12n on Sunday (unless otherwise noted, see due dates below) to include their thoughts, responses, questions...