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CRP 351 Everyday Life, Politics and Space
is now open in 2015-16 Fall semester
Assist. Prof. Dr. Deniz Altay Kaya
The course is held on Tuesdays at 14:00 - 16:50, Room B-328
Objectives of the Course
This course provides an account on the major discussions on the everyday life and urban spaces. It develops the consciousness of students on the importance of the practices of the inhabitants and the daily functioning of the city. It provides a new approach toward urban spaces. It aims to question and uncover different meanings and dimensions of everyday practices in cities.
This course aims to introduce students the significance and richness of urban everyday life in cities. It presents urban processes as socio-spatial phenomenon, and urban space as a social product (Lefebvre, 1991). The course aims to discuss how daily practices, and urban cultures are the major components of cities, and how they contribute to the production/(re)production of urban spaces. The course also presents urban life and space as a major political arena, within which daily ‘micro-politics’ are operated and micro resistances take place.
Based on this approach, The course aims to provide an account of the grounding theories on (urban) space, everyday life and power relations in cities; and further to encourage students to observe and discover the daily dynamics around themselves. As case studies, examples from daily practices of the urban inhabitants in different parts of the world will be introduced. These case studies will include different practices invented, appropriated and performed by different inhabitant groups in cities. The spatiality of these practices; and the way they turn into strategies and tactics of living in the city will be discussed in classes. Similar daily practices will be studied by the students throughout the semester.