Hi there.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow morning at 8:00 am. I’ll try and be in the Geog main office (Room 160) at ~ 7:45 am in the chance your reviews need to be copied. IF you can copy your own reviews before-hand, please do so as to limit any potential chaos tomorrow. Please bring along 20 copies and remember to put your names on the reviews! It is also better to have back-to-back on one piece of paper should you need two full pages.
As noted two weeks ago, your book review must deal with the entire Abu-Lughod book.
And, as noted in the syllabus (extract below), your abstracts are due tomorrow as well:
Research Paper (50% of grade)
The remaining 50% of your grade is derived from a research paper on the topic off your choice (subject to my approval). The paper should be on a theme related to ‘cities and development’. I would like you to prepare this paper with the aim of submitting it to a professional journal that published urban-oriented work (e.g., Cities, Development and Change, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Urban Geography, Urban Studies).
In terms of length:
- Undergraduates should aim for a 15-20 page double-spaced paper.
- Graduate students should aim for a 25-30 page double-spaced paper.
In terms of deadlines, note that in the schedule I stated:
- Week 4: February 10 – Research paper topic titles and 50 word abstracts due in class today
- Week 8: March 10 – Research paper title, full single-spaced page abstract, and reference list (10+ key academic references) due in class today
- Tuesday May 11 – The final version of the research paper is due by 5:00 pm
If you have more than one option in mind, please bring me two abstracts and titles on one piece of paper. I’ll use these as a basis to give you some feedback on topics, direction, sources, and so on.
Cheers, Kris



