Graduate Seminar
COGR 262
Next Up, Spring 2026
This graduate seminar brings multidisciplinary approaches to racial formation and radical placemaking, centering on new books in human geography. Students will engage with book-length monographs that demonstrate the importance of relational placemaking in Black, queer, Latinx and/or Indigenous communities. To build new theories, we will also grapple with authors’ positionalities and different methods employed including classic ethnography and archival work, and building out cohort-focused group interviews, storymaps, and drawing constellated neighborhood memories.
Last taught, winter 2024. Syllabus
Image: “Water Writes Phoenix, Arizona” photo by Andrew Curley. See https://www.estria.org/project/phoenix-arizona/
Curley, A., & Smith, S. (2024). The cene scene: Who gets to theorize global time and how do we center indigenous and black futurities? Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(1), 166-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231173865