Lahore University of Management Sciences

PHIL322Space&Power
Fall20152016

Instructor ChristineHabbard
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COURSEBASICS
CreditHours
Lecture(s) 2lecturesper Duration 1hr50mins
week
Recitation/Lab(per NbrofLec(s)Per Duration
week) Week
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COURSEDESCRIPTION
Theaimofthecourseistoreflectonthetightknitembraceofspaceandpower:howspaceshapesanddetermines
certain forms of power, and how power in turn takes on specific spatial dimensions. The notions of a territory and
national boundaries, e.g., which seem so selfevident, are in fact a very specific historical construct, elaborated with
precisepoliticalaims;theyalsorestonaparticularconceptionofspaceandofgeometry,withoutwhichthenotionofa
territorialnationstatecouldnothavebeeninvented.
More generally, while philosophy and political science have abundantly reflected on time as a key component of
politicalregimes,theyhaveconsistentlyneglectedspaceasaninstrumentofpower,eventhoughitisnolessimportant
inestablishing,sustainingandreinforcinglaw,governanceandpoliticalcontrol.Spaceisnotanempty,homogenous
container:itisasocialandpoliticalreality,whichistheresultofsocial,historicalandpoliticalpowerstruggles.
The course will consider various figures and aspects of this spatiality of power; in particular, we will look at the
importance of geometry in creating the conditions for the modern nationstate, notably through the invention of
cartography.Itwillfurthershowhowspatialthinkingallowsforfreshconceptualapproachestopoliticalissues,suchas
cosmopolitanism,minorityrights,propertyrightsorimmigrationethics.Wewillalsolookattherelationshipbetween
space and state violence, as is e.g. manifested by phenomena such as ethnic cleansing or forced population
displacements;wewillalsoexplorethepoliticsofspace,orhowgivenpoliticalideasandvaluesshapeandtransform
space,notablyinurbanplanning.
ThecoursewillusethecaseofBritishIndiaandthepartitionofIndiaasanexemplificationofthiscomplexrelationship
betweenspaceandpower.

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COURSEMETHODOLOGY
1. Thereadingiscompulsoryandwillbechecked.
2. Attendanceiscompulsoryandwillbechecked.
3. Oralparticipationisactivelyencouraged.
Grading:
Readingsummaries...........................20%
Attendance.........................................5%
AnindepthResearchPaper............75%
READINGLIST
JohnAgnew,TheTerritorialTrap:theGeographicalAssumptionsofInternationalRelationsTheory,Reviewof
InternationalPoliticalEconomy,Vol.1,Issue1,1994,pp.5380.
JamesAkerman,TheStructuringofPoliticalTerritoryinEarlyPrintedAtlases,ImagoMundi,Vol.47,1995,pp.138
154.
EtienneBalibar,TheNationForm:HistoryandIdeology
CharlesBeitz,PoliticalTheoryandInternationalRelations.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1979,Section2,pp.68
130.
JeremyBentham,PrinciplesoftheCivilCode,Part1,chap.8,OfProperty.
MichaelBiggs,PuttingtheStateontheMap:Cartography,Territory,andEuropeanState,ComparativeStudiesin
SocietyandHistory,Vol.41,No.2,Apr.1999,pp.374405.
JeremyBlack,MapsandPolitics,London,ReaktionBooks,1997,pp.928.
NicholasBlomley,Law,Property,andtheGeographyofViolence:TheFrontier,theSurvey,andtheGrid,Annalsofthe
AssociationofAmericanGeographers,Vol.93,No.1,Mar.2003,pp.121141.
EdmundBurke,ReflectionsontheRevolutionofFrance,PenguinClassics,pp.284290.
JosephCarens,AliensandCitizens:TheCaseforOpenBorders
DipeshChakrabarty,RememberedVillages,RepresentationsofHinduBengaliMemoriesintheAftermathofthe
Partition.
LucyChester,BordersandConflictsinSouthAsia:TheRadcliffeBoundaryCommissionandthePartitionofPunjab,
Manchester,ManchesterUniversityPress,2009,chap.2,pp.2540.
DeleuzeandGuattari,AThousandPlateaux,
MatthewEdney,MappinganEmpireTheGeographicalConstructionofBritishIndia,17651843,Univ.ofChicago
Press,1990,pp.1536and332340.
RichardFord,Law'sTerritory(AHistoryofJurisdiction),MichiganLawReview,Vol.97,No.4,Feb.1999,pp.843930.
MichelFoucault,Power/Knowledge:SelectedInterviewsandOtherWritings19721977,ColinGordon(ed.),NewYork,
PantheonBooks,1980,chap.8Theeyeofpower.
AnneGodlewska,Map,TextandImage.TheMentalityofEnlightenedConquerors:ANewLookattheDescriptionde
l'Egypte,inTransactionsoftheInstituteofBritishGeographers,Vol.20,no.1,1995,pp.528.
ACHabbard,LinesofFiction,SpacesofPower,CahiersdeLogiqueetdEpistmologie,Paris,November2011.
J.B.Harley:
DeconstructingtheMap,Cartographica,vol.26,No2,summer1989,pp.120.
RereadingtheMapsoftheColumbianEncounter,AnnalsoftheAssociationofAmericanGeographers,Vol.82,
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No.3,Sep.1992,pp.522536.
SilencesandSecrecy:TheHiddenAgendaofCartographyinEarlyModernEurope,ImagoMundi,40,1988,pp.
5776.
DavidHarvey,CosmopolitanismandtheGeographiesofFreedom,NY,ColumbiaUniversityPress,2009,chap.8:Places,
regions,territories,pp.166201.
DavidHeld,CosmopolitanDemocracyandtheGlobalOrder:Reflectionsonthe200thAnniversaryofKant's"Perpetual
Peace",inAlternatives:Global,Local,Political,Vol.20,No.4(Oct.Dec.1995),pp.415429.
EricHobsbawn,NationsandNationalismsince1871,CambridgeUniv.Press,1990,chap.3,pp.8089.
TimIngold,LinesABriefHistory,Routledge,chap.3Up,acrossandalong,pp.7190.
MaxJammer,ConceptsofSpaceTheHistoryofTheoriesofSpaceinPhysics,Dover,NewYork,4thed.1993,chap.4,
TheConceptofAbsoluteSpace,pp.95102.
LeifJerram,Streetlife,Noplaceforalady?,pp.121140.
PatrickJoyce,TheRuleofFreedomLiberalismandtheModernCity,Verso,London2003,Introductionandchap.1.
ImmanuelKant,DoctrineofRight
- TowardPerpetualPeace
WillKymlicka,InterpretingGroupRights,inTheGoodSociety,Vol.6,No.2,spring1996,pp.811.
AndrewMcRae,ToKnowOne'sOwn:EstateSurveyingandtheRepresentationoftheLandinEarlyModernEngland,
TheHuntingtonLibraryQuarterly,UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1993,56,No.4,pp.333357.
LisaMalkki,NationalGeographic:TheRootingofPeoplesandtheTerritorializationofNationalIdentityamongScholars
andRefugees,inCulturalAnthropology,1992
DoreenMassey,ForSpace,London,Sage,2005,chap.11pp.107117andchap.14,149161
WalterMignolo,TheDarkerSideoftheRenaissance,AnnArbor,MichiganUniv.Press,2010,pp.325334.
GregoryNobles,StraightLinesandStability:MappingthePoliticalOrderoftheAngloAmericanFrontier,TheJournal
ofAmericanHistory,Vol.80,No.1,Jun.1993,pp.935.
Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2006,
pp.255270..
KennethOlwig,Representationandalienationinthepoliticallandscape,CulturalGeographies,2005,pp.1940.
RicardoPadron,TheSpaciousWordCartography,Literature,andEmpireinEarlyModernSpain,Chicago,Universityof
ChicagoPress,2003.
JohnPickles,NewCartographies'andtheDecolonizationofEuropeanGeographies,inArea,Vol.37,No.4,Dec.2005,
pp.355364.
JeanJacquesRousseau,TheSocialContract.
Robert Sack, Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, chap. 2
Theory,pp.2844.
B.C.Sanyal,Lahore1947,inLahore1947,AhmadSalim(ed.),pp.134151.
Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus PublicumEuropaeum, translated and
annotatedbyG.L.Ulmen,TelosPress,NewYork2003,chap.1Thefirstgloballines,pp.86100.
- TheConceptofthePolitical
PeterSinger,OneWorld:TheEthicsofGlobalization.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,2002.
David Turnbull, Cartography and Science in Early Modern Europe: Mapping the Construction of Knowledge Spaces,
ImagoMundi,Vol.48,1996,pp.524.
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MichaelWalzer,LiberalismandtheArtofSeparation,PoliticalTheory,Vol.12,No.3,Aug.1984,pp.315330.
ThongchaiWinichakul,SiamMappedAHistoryoftheGeoBodyofaNation,Univ.ofHawaPress,1994,pp.119and
164174.
1. VaziraFazilaYacoobaliZamindar, The Long Partition and the Makings of Modern South Asia Refugees,
Boundaries,Histories,OxfordUniv.Press,2009,pp.116and161185.

CLASSSCHEDULE
Week1:GeneralIntroductionWhyisspaceaproblemforpolitics?
Whyisspaceconsistentlyabsentfrompoliticalreflection?Theimportanceofthespatialityofpower.Lookingatpolitics
throughtheprismofspace,understandinggeopoliticsinitsoriginalmeaningofpoliticalgeography.

MichelFoucault,Theeyeofpower,inPower/Knowledge:SelectedInterviewsandOtherWritings19721977.Edited
byColinGordon.NewYork:PantheonBooks,1980.
LisaMalkki,NationalGeographic:TheRootingofPeoplesandtheTerritorializationofNationalIdentityamongScholars
andRefugees,CulturalAnthropology,1992

Week2:TheInventionofthePoliticalTerritory
Whatisthespecificspatialityoftheterritorialnationstate?Howdiditinaugurateaspecificrelationshipbetweenspace
andpower?Thelinkbetweenterritoryandsovereignty.Thespatialoriginsofthenationstate.Theimpactof
territorialityininternationalrelations.

JohnAgnew,TheTerritorialTrap:theGeographicalAssumptionsofInternationalRelationsTheory,Reviewof
InternationalPoliticalEconomy,Vol.1,Issue1,1994,pp.5380.
EricHobsbawn,NationsandNationalismsince1871
Robert Sack, Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, chap. 2
Theory,pp.2844.

Week3:TerritoryandBoundaries
Thepoliticalandlegalroleofboundaries.Violence,warandboundaries.

EtienneBalibar,TheNationForm:HistoryandIdeology
RichardFord,Law'sTerritory(AHistoryofJurisdiction),MichiganLawReview,Vol.97,No.4,Feb.1999,pp.843930.
CarlSchmitt,TheConceptofthePolitical

Week4:ALinearThinking
Theroleofgeometryincreatingtheconceptualconditionsofpossibilityofthemodernpolity.

EdmundBurke,ReflectionsontheRevolutionofFrance
TimIngold,LinesABriefHistory
MaxJammer,ConceptsofSpaceTheHistoryofTheoriesofSpaceinPhysics,Dover,NewYork,1954,4thed.1993.
DoreenMassey,ForSpace
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GregoryNobles,StraightLinesandStability:MappingthePoliticalOrderoftheAngloAmericanFrontier,TheJournal
ofAmericanHistory,Vol.80,No.1,Jun.1993,pp.935.
CarlSchmitt,TheNomosoftheEarthintheInternationalLawoftheJusPublicumEuropaeum,translatedandannotated
byG.L.Ulmen,TelosPress,NewYork2003.

Week5:ThePhilosophicalandPoliticalConceptofCosmopolitanism
Isitpossibletoovercomethespatialityofnationalterritorialityandthinktheconditionsofpossibilityof
cosmopolitanism?

CharlesBeitz,PoliticalTheoryandInternationalRelations.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1979,pp.68130.
ImmanuelKant,ProjectofPerpetualPeace
Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership. Cambridge, Belknap Press, 2006,
pp.255270.
JohnRawls,TheLawofPeoples,Cambridge,HarvardUniversityPress
PeterSinger,OneWorld:TheEthicsofGlobalization.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,2002.

Week6:ApplyingSpatialThinkingtoPoliticalIssues
Understandingthespatialityunderlyingtheissuesofminorityrightsandimmigrationethics.

JosephCarens,AliensandCitizens:TheCaseforOpenBorders
WillKymlicka,InterpretingGroupRights,inTheGoodSociety,Vol.6,No.2,spring1996,pp.811.

Weeks7and8:Cartography1:MappingthePolity,thePoliticsofMapping
Howcartographyisintimatelylinkedtomodernity.

JamesAkerman,TheStructuringofPoliticalTerritoryinEarlyPrintedAtlases,ImagoMundi,Vol.47,1995,pp.138
154.
MichaelBiggs,PuttingtheStateontheMap:Cartography,Territory,andEuropeanState,ComparativeStudiesin
SocietyandHistory,Vol.41,No.2,Apr.1999,pp.374405.
JeremyBlack,MapsandPolitics
J.B.Harley:
DeconstructingtheMap,Cartographica,vol.26,No2,summer1989,pp.120.
RereadingtheMapsoftheColumbianEncounter,AnnalsoftheAssociationofAmericanGeographers,Vol.82,
No.3,Sep.1992,pp.522536.
SilencesandSecrecy:TheHiddenAgendaofCartographyinEarlyModernEurope,ImagoMundi,40,1988,pp.
5776.
DavidTurnbull,CartographyandSciencein Early ModernEurope:Mapping theConstructionofKnowledgeSpaces,
ImagoMundi,Vol.48,1996,pp.524.

Weeks9and10:Cartography2:MappingandColonization
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Cartographyasaprivilegedtoolofcolonialcontrol.

MatthewEdney,MappinganEmpireTheGeographicalConstructionofBritishIndia,17651843
AnneGodlewska,Map,TextandImage.TheMentalityofEnlightenedConquerors:ANewLookattheDescriptionde
l'Egypte,TransactionsoftheInstituteofBritishGeographers,Vol.20,No.1,1995,pp.528.
RicardoPadron,TheSpaciousWordCartography,Literature,andEmpireinEarlyModernSpain,Chicago,Universityof
ChicagoPress,2003.
JohnPickles,NewCartographies'andtheDecolonizationofEuropeanGeographies,Area,Vol.37,No.4,Dec.2005,
pp.355364.
ThongchaiWinichakul,SiamMappedAHistoryoftheGeoBodyofaNation

Week11:Cartography3:VisualisingProperty
Oncartographyandmodernity:howprivateproperty,theinstitutionalizationofwhichisoneofthemainfeaturesof
themodernnationstate,reliesontheexistenceofmapsandcadastralsurveys.

JeremyBentham,SecurityandEqualityofProperty,inProperty:MainstreamandCriticalPositions,ed.byB.
MacPherson,Toronto,UniversityofTorontoPress,1978,pp.3958.
NicholasBlomley,Law,Property,andtheGeographyofViolence:TheFrontier,theSurvey,andtheGrid,Annalsofthe
AssociationofAmericanGeographers,Vol.93,No.1,Mar.2003,pp.121141.
ChristineHabbard,LinesofFiction,SpacesofPower,CahiersdeLogiqueetdEpistmologie,Paris,November2011.
AndrewMcRae,ToKnowOne'sOwn:EstateSurveyingandtheRepresentationoftheLandinEarlyModernEngland,
TheHuntingtonLibraryQuarterly,UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1993,56,No.4,pp.333357.
JeanJacquesRousseau,TheSocialContract

Week12:APoliticalConcept:TheInventionoftheLandscape
Thenotionoflandscapeisacombinationofgeometryandaverymodernnotionoftheindividualandthepolity,and
embodiesaparticularrelationshipbetweenmanandtheenvironment.

DipeshChakrabarty,RememberedVillages,RepresentationsofHinduBengaliMemoriesintheAftermathofthe
Partition.
KennethOlwig,Representationandalienationinthepoliticallandscape,CulturalGeographies,2005,pp.1940.

Week13:ThePartitionofIndiaanditsSpatiality
The1947partitionofIndianotonlyreflectsanewpoliticalthinking,italsoexposesandaccentuatesthenewroleof
linesinpoliticalmodernity.

LucyChester,BordersandConflictsinSouthAsia:TheRadcliffeBoundaryCommissionandthePartitionofPunjab,
Manchester,ManchesterUniversityPress,2009
MushirulHasan(ed.),IndiaPartitionedTheOtherSideofFreedom,Vol.1&2,NewDelhi,RoliBooks,LotusCollection,
1995.
VaziraFazilaYacoobaliZamindar,TheLongPartitionandtheMakingsofModernSouthAsiaRefugees,Boundaries,
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Histories.

Week14:ThePoliticsofUrbanity
Howcitiesoriginatefrom,andareshaped,byspecificpoliticalideas.Thepoliticalmeaningofurbanity.

LeifJerram,Streetlife,Noplaceforalady?,pp.121140.
PatrickJoyce,TheRuleofFreedomLiberalismandtheModernCity,Verso,London2003.
MichaelWalzer,LiberalismandtheArtofSeparation,PoliticalTheory,Vol.12,No.3,Aug.1984,pp.315330.