Course literature for SGO4401 is only available in electronic format. Most of the material can be accessed through internet, but much of the access requires that you use a UiO computer. Some of the course literature is available on the course's homepage in Fronter (this requires that you are registered as a SGO4401 student).
Introduction: Political spaces and popular politics
@ Grugel, J. (2003). Democratization Studies: Citizenship, Globalization and Governance. Government and Opposition, 38(2): 238-264. (27 pages).
@ Jessop, B., Brenner, N. and Jones, M. (2008). Theorizing sociospatial relations. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26: 389-401. (13 pages).
PART 1: CONTRADICTORY POLITICAL SPACES
Transitions to depoliticized and semi-authoritarian democracy
@ Carothers, T. (2002). The End of the Transition Paradigm. Journal of Democracy, 13(1): 5-21. (17 pages).
@ Carothers, T. (2007). How Democracies Emerge. The “Sequencing” Fallacy. Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 12-27. (16 pages).
@ Diamond, L. (2013). The Flow and Ebb of Democracy’s Third Wave. Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 18: 94-104. (11 pages).
@ Levitsky, S. and Way, L. (2002). The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy, 13(2): 51-65. (15 pages).
@ Mansfield, E.D. and Snyder, J. (2007). The Sequencing ‘Fallacy’. Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-9. (5 pages).
@ Stokke, K. (2014). Substantiating Urban Democracy: The Importance of Popular Representation and Transformative Democratic Politics. In S. Parnell and S. Oldfield (eds.), A Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. London: Routledge (pp. 257-268, 12 pages). on fronter
Governance and spaces of participation
@ Benit-Gbaffou, C. (2011). ‘Up Close and Personal’ – How Does Local Democracy Help the Poor Access to the State? Journal of Asian and African Studies, 46(5): 453-464. (12 pages).
@ Lindell, I. (2008). The Multiple Sites of Urban Governance: Insights from an African City. Urban Studies, 45(9): 1879-1901. (22 pages).
@ Melo, M. and Baiocchi, G. (2006). Deliberative Democracy and Local Governance: Towards a New Agenda. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(3): 587–600. (14 pages).
@ Miraftab, F. and Wills, S. (2005). Insurgency and Spaces of Active Citizenship: The Story of Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 25(2): 200-217. (18 pages).
@ Mohan, G. (2007). Participatory Development: from Epistemological Reversals to Active Citizenship. Geography Compass, 1(4): 779-796. (18 pages).
@ Swyngedouw, E. (2005). Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of Governance-beyond-the State. Urban Studies, 42(11): 1991-2006. (16 pages).
Discursive political spaces
@ Cornwall, A. (2004). Introduction: New democratic spaces? The politics and dynamics of institutionalised participation. IDS Bulletin 35(2): 1–10. (10 pages).
@ Gleiss, M. S. (2014a). How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice. China Information 28(3): 362–381. (20 pages).
@ Gleiss, M. S. (2014b). (Re)making political space: Labor NGOs and migrant workers in China. PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. (pp. 13-34, 21 pages). on fronter
@ Giugni, M. (2009). Political Opportunities: From Tilly to Tilly. Swiss Political Science Review 15(2): 361-367. (7 pages).
@ Koopmans, R. and Statham, P. (1999). Ethnic and civic conceptions of nationhood and the differential success of the extreme right in Germany and Italy. In M. Giugni, D. McAdam and C. Tilly (eds.), How Movements Matter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (pp. 225–251, 26 pages). on fronter
PART 2: POLYCENTRIC POPULAR POLITICS
Politics of citizenship as an analytical entry point
@ Desforges, L., Jones, R. and Woods, M. (2005). New Geographies of Citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 9(5), 439-451. (13 pages).
@ Juteau, D. (2008). Multicultural Citizenship beyond Recognition. In E. F. Isin (ed.), Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (pp. 69-99, 30 pages). on fronter
@ Robins, S., Cornwall, A. and von Lieres, B. (2008). Rethinking 'Citizenship' in the Postcolony. Third World Quarterly, 29(6), 1069-1086. (18 pages).
@ Stokke, K. (2013). Conceptualizing the Politics of Citizenship. PCD Journal, 5. (34 pages). on fronter
Popular representation and political parties
@ Randall, V. (2007). Political Parties in Africa and the Representation of Social Groups. In M. Basedau, G. Erdmann and A. Mehler (eds.), Votes, Money and Violence: Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. (pp 82-104, 23 pages).
@ Stokke, K., Khine Win, and Soe Myint Aung. (2015). Political Parties and Party-Society Relations in Myanmar’s Democratization Process. (ca. 12 pages). on fronter
@ Tomsa, D. (2013). What type of party? Southeast Asian parties between clientelism and electoralism. In D. Tomsa and A. Ufen (eds.), Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Clientelism and electoral competition in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. London: Routledge. (pp. 20-39, 20 pages). on fronter
@ Törnquist, O. (2009). Introduction: The Problem Is Representation! Towards and Analytical Framework. In O. Törnquist, N. Webster and K. Stokke (eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. (pp. 1-23, 23 pages). on fronter
Social movements and political transformations
@ Bull, B. (2013). Social Movements and the 'Pink Tide' Governments in Latin America: Transformation, Inclusion and Rejection. In K. Stokke and O. Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. (pp. 75-99, 25 pages). on fronter
@ Haarstad, H. (2007). Collective Political Subjectivity and the Problem of Scale. Contemporary Politics, 13(1), 57-74. (18 pages).
@ Heller, P. (2013). Participation and Democratic Transformation: Building Effective Citizenship in Brazil, India and South Africa. In K. Stokke and O. Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. (pp. 42-74, 33 pages). on fronter
@ Leitner, H., Sheppard, E. and Sziarto, K. M. (2008). The Spatialities of Contentious Politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(2), 157-172. (16 pages).
@ McFarlane, C. (2009). Translocal assemblages: Space, power and social movements. Geoforum, 40(4), 561-567. (7 pages).
Informal work and organizing
@ Bonner, C. and Spooner, D. (2011). Organizing Labour in the Informal Economy: Institutional Forms and Relationships. TRAVAIL, capital et société, 44(1): 128-152. (24 pages).
@ Lindell, I. (2010). Informality and collective organising: identities, alliances and transnational activism in Africa. Third World Quarterly 31(2): 207-222. (16 pages).
@ Lloyd-Evans, S. (2008). Geographies of the contemporary informal sector in the global south: gender, employment relationships and social protection. Geography Compass 2(6): 1885-1906. (22 pages).
@ Millstein, M. and Jordhus-Lier, D. (2012). Making communities work? Casual labour practices and local civil society dynamics in Delft, Cape Town. Journal of Southern African Studies 38(1): 183-201. (19 pages).
Constructing and representing subjectivities
@ Gleiss, M. S. (2015). Speaking up for the suffering (br)other: Weibo activism, discursive struggles, and minimal politics in China. Media, Culture and Society 37(4): 513–529. (17 pages).
@ Gleiss, M. S. (forthcoming). From being a problem to having problems: Discourse, governmentality and Chinese migrant workers. Journal of Chinese Political Science. (28 pages). on fronter
@ Rasmussen, C. and M. Brown (2002). Radical democratic citizenship: Amidst political theory and geography. In E. F. Isin and B. S. Turner (eds.), Handbook of Citizenship Studies. London, SAGE. (pp. 175-188, 14 pages).
@ Torfing, J. (2005). Poststructuralist discourse theory: Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, and Žižek. In T. Janoski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. A. Schwartz (eds.), The Handbook of Political Sociology: States, Civil Societies, and Globalization. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (pp. 153-171, 19 pages). on fronter
Informality and urban citizenship
@ Dupont, V., Jordhus-Lier, D. C., Braathen, E., Sutherland, C., and C. E. Estrada (2015). Modalities of social mobilisation. In Dupont, V., Jordhus-Lier, D. C., Braathen, E. and C. Sutherland (eds.), The Politics of Slums in the Global South: Urban Informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru. London: Routledge. on fronter
@ Jordhus-Lier, D. (2015). Community resistance to megaprojects: The case of the N2 Gateway project in Joe Slovo informal settlement, Cape Town. Habitat International, 45: 169-176. (8 pages).
@ McFarlane, C. (2008). Sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements: State,'slum'and infrastructure. Environment and planning A, 40(1): 88-107. (20 pages).
@ Roy, A. (2005). Urban informality: toward an epistemology of planning. Journal of the American Planning Association, 71(2): 147-158. (12 pages).
Conclusion: Key lessons and strategic interventions
@ Carothers, T. (2009). Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental. Journal of Democracy, 20(1): 5-19. (15 pages).
@ Stokke, K. and Törnquist, O. (2013). Experiences and Strategic Interventions in Transformative Democratic Politics. In K. Stokke and O. Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. (pp. 302-311, 10 pages). on fronter
@ Webster, N., Stokke, K. and Törnquist, O. (2009). Democratic Insitutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Popular Representation. In O. Törnquist, N. Webster and K. Stokke (eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (pp. 223-234, 12 pages). on fronter