POLS 161: Global Political Economy: Race, Labor, Power (HC)

Features annotated bibliographies with introductory paragraphs. Scholars identify key sources on a range of topics in various fields including urban studies and political science. See the box In This Article for the contents of an individual essay. Check the items in the "Related Titles" box for additional essays about your interests. This series is under development and adds new essays twice a year.
Essays from the Urban Studies section include:
Cairo ; Cape Town ; Delhi ; Hong Kong ; Kigali ; Kyiv ; Lagos ; Manila ; Mexico City ; Moscow ; Mumbai ; Nairobi ; Paris ; São Paulo ; Shanghai ; Tokyo ;
; Toronto
African Urbanization ; Arab Middle Eastern Urbanization ; Indian Urbanization ; Asian and Asian American Suburbs in the United States ; Black Suburbs ; Natural Disasters and Their Impact on Cities ; Riots; Social Movements in Cities ; Squatter Settlements ; Urban Poverty
Relevant essays from other sections of Oxford Bibliographies include:
From the African Studies section: Urbanism and Urbanization
From the Latin American Studies Section: Poverty in Latin America ; Urban History
From the Sociology section: Gentrification ; Residential Segregation ;Spatial Analysis ; Urban Economics ; Urban Poverty ; Urban Underclass.

Offers literature reviews that cover significant issues in the social sciences with both an analysis and extensive listing of sources. Pertinent literature reviews for this class include:
"Cities and Politics in the Developing World" Annual Review of Political Science (2018)
"Cities of the Global South" Annual Review of Sociology (2020)
"From Chicago to China and India: Studying the City in the Twenty-First Century" Annual Review of Sociology (2018)
"From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda" Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2021)
"Gender and Urban Space" Annual Review of Sociology (2014)
"Hispanics in Metropolitan America: New Realities and Old Debates" Annual Review of Sociology (2014)
"The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review" Annual Review of Political Science (2021)
"Roles of Cities in Creating Healthful Food Systems" Annual Review of Public Health (2022)
"The Sociology of Urban Black America" Annual Review of Sociology (2016)
"Transformational Adaptation in the Context of Coastal Cities" Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2021)
"Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia" Annual Review of Anthropology (2016)
"Urbanization and the Southern United States" Annual Review of Sociology (2012)
"When Does Globalization Help the Poor?" Annual Review of Political Science (2017)

Features 65 essays in categories including City Materialities and City Divisions and Differences. Multiple essays address issues within an individual city.

See the essays within the section Modern and Contemporary Cities for treatment of cities within regions and for themes including industrialization, inequality, metropolitan centers and port cities.

In an age of increasing urban pluralism, globalization and immigration and an ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders. This book surveys bottom-up efforts such as everyday urbanism, DIY urbanism, guerilla urbanism, tactical urbanism, and lean urbanism. Contributors also connect with urban informality in the Global South, drawing parallels and finding contrast between social and institutional structures across the globe.

Essays in this book explore urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.

The last two decades have been a richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. This handbook offers coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signaling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research.

Addresses a range of systematic ideas including theoretical and legal conditions for human dignity within a global framework.

A collection of comprehensive country profiles containing detailed information on each nation's political history, government, leadership structure, elections, and political party system. Updated every two years.

This 2016 print edition analyzes the impacts of globalization with sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes. See also the online 2013 edition (BMC ; HC)

This handbook takes an inter-disciplinary approach, combining work in such core fields as law, political science and philosophy with such non-traditional subjects as demography, geography, and mass communication.

Contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of globalization including articles on: coca-colonization, commodity chain, and dependency trends.

In this article I trace the history of the urban crisis and consider some examples of the making of slums in order to show how the spatial form of the city has been shaped by a peculiar dialectic between the state and statelessness

The article analyzes interactions among wealthy citizens, resident aliens and migrant workers in a city designed to separate these groups.

Karachi represents a multi-dimensional intra-state conflict that has claimed thousands of innocent lives due to rampant ethnic, political, sectarian and criminal violence.

This paper focuses on the urban area of Palma (Majorca) by analyzing the foreclosures exerted on home-owners and the evictions of tenants who, from the start of the crisis of 2008, have not been able to afford their mortgage payments or rents. These evictions and foreclosures are correlated with the social status of the urban areas affected.

This case study from the 1970s documents the impact of environmental inequalities.

Campion argues for the importance of place within Birmingham for the performance of racialized identities. HC students use Article Request to get a copy.

This article focuses not on migrant workers themselves, nor on people who hire them. Instead, it throws into the mix a class of people who do not have access to migrant care workers, but who nonetheless live in a society where norms and standards are set by people who do. I argue that under the current work–care–migration regime in Singapore, low-income families’ needs are overlooked.