Inspirational Texts
Wekker, Gloria. Excerpts from White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Durham, North Carolina: Duke UP, 2016
Berlant, Lauren. “The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 34, no. 3, 2016, pp. 393-419, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989.
Cosgrove, Denis. “Geography is Everywhere: Culture and Symbolism in Human Landscapes,” Horizons of Human Geography, 1988.
Ann Laura Stoler, “Epistemic Politics: Ontologies of Colonial Common Sense,” The Philosophical Forum, 2008.
Giorel Curran. ‘Reclaim the Streets’ in 21st Century Dissident Anarchism, Anti- Globalization and Environmentalism. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
Guy Debord. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1994. [1967] (the text can also be found here: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/tsots00.html)
Jennifer Wenzel, “Decolonization,” A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory eds. Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully. Wily-Blackwell, 2017.
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a Metaphor,” Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education & Society 1.1 (2012) — http://www.decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630
Rebelse stad [Rebellious City: Provo in Amsterdam] (Willy Lindwer, 2015). http://rebelsestad.nl/#over
The Black Archives-http://www.theblackarchives.nl/archieven1.html
Certeau, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, 1984.
Billig, Michael. Banal Nationalism. SAGE, 1995.
Barker, Chris and Emma A. Jane. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. 5th Edition. Los Angeles: Sage, 2016.
Bennett, Andrew and Nicholas Royle. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. 6th edition. London: Routledge, 2023.
Ken Knabb (ed.). Situationist International Anthology. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006
- ‘The Use of Free Time’ pp.74-76 ’
- ‘Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life’ pp. 90-100.
- ‘A User’s Guide to Détournement’ pp. 14-21
- ‘Détournement as Negation and Prelude’ pp. 67-69.
- ‘Report on the Construction of Situations’ pp. 25-47
- ‘Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation’ pp. 49-51.
- ‘The Situationists and the New Forms of Action against Politics and Art’ pp.273-277.
- ‘On the Poverty of Student Life’ pp. 408-430
- ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism’ pp1-8.
- ‘Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography’ pp8-12.
- ‘Proposals for Really Improving the City of Paris’ pp12-14.
- ‘Theory of the Dérive’ pp. 62-67.
- ‘Situationist Thesis on Traffic’ pp. 69-71.
- ‘Another City for Another Life’ pp. 71-74’
- ‘Basic Program of the Bureau for Unitary Urbanism pp. 86-90.’
Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Penguin, 2021.
Broswimmer, Franz J. Ecocide: A Short History of Mass Extinction of Species. Pluto Press, 2002.
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2023.
Williams, R. Country and the City. 1973.
Wolfe, Cary. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanism. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Calarco, Matthew. Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Derrida, Jacques, and Marie-Louise Mallet. The Animal That Therefore I Am. Fordham University Press, 2008.
Said, Edward W. 1983. The World, the Text, and the Critic. London: Faber and Faber.
Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. Verso, 1989.
Said, Edward W. 1993. Culture and Imperialism. London: Chao and Windus.
Ahmed, Sara. 2006. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press.
Allen, Graham. 2011. Intertextuality. 2nd edn. London: Routledge.
Althusser, Louis. 1969. ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster, 2nd edn. London: New Le Books, 1977.
Arnold, Mahew. 1964. ‘e Function of Criticism at the Present Time’, in Essays in Criticism. New York: Everyman’s Library.
Ashcro, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds. 1989. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge.
Badmington, Neil, ed. 2000. Posthumanism. London: Palgrave
Barthes, Roland. 1977a. ‘The Death of the Author’, in Image Music Text, trans. Stephen Heath. London: Fontana.
Baudrillard, Jean. 1988. ‘Simulacra and Simulations’, in Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster. Cambridge: Polity.
Baudrillard, Jean. 1995. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, trans. Paul Paon. Sydney: Power Publications.
Beulens, Gert, Sam Durrant and Robert Eaglestone, eds. 2014. The Future of
Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism.
Brinkema, Eugenie. 2014. The Forms of the Affects. Durham and London:Duke University Press.
Bronfen, Elisabeth. 1992. Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic. Manester: Manester University Press
Cixous, Hélène. 1990. ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’, trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, in New French Feminisms: An Anthology, eds Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtirvon. Amherst: University of Massauses Press.
Craps, Stef. 2013. Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guaari. 2013. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi. London: Bloomsbury Academic
During, Simon. 1992. Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing. London: Routledge.
T., Mitchell W J. What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Felman, Shoshana. 1993. What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Foucault, Miel. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, 2nd edn. New York: Vintage.
Jameson, Fredric. 1993. ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’, in Postmodernism: A Reader, ed. Thomas Doerty. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Young, Robert J.C. 1995. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. London: Routledge.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies: Roland Barthes. Hill and Wang, 1972.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies. London: Routledge, 1994.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? Verso Books, 2016.