[csaa-forum] MasterClass -Urban Cultural Economy in an Age of Globalisation

[Reena Dobson]

Apologies for cross-posting; please note extended deadline

 

Urban Cultural Economy in an Age of Globalisation

 

 

Master Class with Professor Sharon Zukin

 

 

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 The Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney is
seeking expressions of interest from post graduate researchstudents
interested in participating in a master class with eminent urban scholar
Professor Sharon Zukin of Brooklyn College and the City University of
New York. Details of Professor Zukin's achievements are listed below. 

 

The master class will commence on the morning of the 11th July and run
until lunchtime on the 12th. It will include a presentation by Professor
Zukin and participants will be given the opportunity to discuss their
own research. Some readings will be supplied. The event will be held at
the UWS Parramatta campus with a maximum of 23 participants. There will
be a $30 registration charge to cover the cost of lunch and morning/
afternoon teas. There will also be a dinner arranged the evening of the
11th that is not covered in the registration charge.

 

We invite expressions of interest from those who are working in the
fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies, and urban studies.
Please send a brief summary of your research and its relevance to the
title of the master class (200 words maximum) to George Morgan (
george.morgan at uws.edu.au <mailto:george.morgan at uws.edu.au> ) by June
22nd (extended deadline).

 

Sharon Zukin, the Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn
College, City University of New York, is one of the world's foremost
observers and theorists of the contemporary city. The author of five
books, including Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991), for
which she won the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award, her work sits at
the intersection of sociology, geography, cultural studies, and
political economy. Loft Living (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)
tracked the cultural and economic processes through which parts of New
York were transformed into gentrified residential spaces. The Culture of
Cities (Blackwell, Oxford, 1996) examines the regeneration of central
urban areas, and how vernacular cultures are often marginalised in the
process of establishing new symbolic economies based on tourism and
cultural industries. Her most recent book Point of Purchase: How
Shopping Changed American Culture (2004) critically examines urban
spaces of consumption. Although the United States and specifically New
York, have provided the empirical focus for much of her work, Zukin's
work has great relevance to Australian cities. Broadly, her work
examines the cultural economy of the contemporary city, including themes
such as culture-led urban regeneration; spaces of consumption; urban
development, art and real estate; racialised ghettoes; public space; and
the transformation of urban life and form under globalisation.  

 

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