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anthropology_final_essay.docxFinal: What is a City? Kakuma’s Answers.
What is a City? Kakuma’s Answers.
Our readings in this course have sought to probe fundamental questions of urban theory: what is the nature of a city? What are its social dynamics and characteristic social forms? What are the city’s specifically urban processes? We began our consideration of what a city is by reviewing a typology offered by Lewis Mumford. Mumford considered a range of perspectives from which one can view the city as an architectural, natural, social, and/or cultural object.
In your final essay, you will use the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-western Kenya as an entry point to consider the following questions: What is a City? Is Kakuma Refugee Camp a city?
Begin by watching “ A Day in Kakuma Refugee Camp ” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z2RzNphJZk) and/or " Refugees Turn Kakuma Camp Into A Permanent Home " (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klLD0GTlbSI&nohtml5=False). These videos will help to give you a sense of life in Kakuma. Next, read “ Refugee camps are the ‘cities of tomorrow’, says humanitarian-aid expert ” (http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee-camps-cities-of-tomorrow-killian-kleinschmidt-interview-humanitarian-aid-expert/).
You will then draw on these two sources, as well as at least three readings from the syllabus, to write an essay discussing the ways in which Kakuma Refugee Camp is (and is not) a city.
If you have difficulty getting started, I have posted a number of (optional) supplemental readings that may help.
**This essay should be at least 1,500 words in length (though no more than 2,000). Shorter essays must justify their brevity by their elegance; longer ones must justify their length by the precision of their argument and the clarity of their structure. **
Final
:
What
is
a
City?
Kakuma’s
Answers.
What is a City?
Kakuma’s
Answers.
Our
readings
in
this
course
have
sought
to
probe
fundamental
questions
of
urban
theory:
what
is
the
nature
of
a
city?
What
are
its
social
dynamics
and
characteristic
social
forms?
What
are
the
city’s
specifically
urban
processes?
We
began
our
consideration
of
what
a
city
is
by
reviewing
a
typology
offered
by
Lewis
Mumford.
Mumford
considered
a
range
of
perspectives
fro
m
which
one
can
view
the
city
as
an
architectural,
natural,
social,
and/or
cultural
object.
In
your
final
essay,
you
will
use
the
Kakuma
Refugee
Camp
in
north
-
western
Kenya
as
an
entry
point
to
consider
the
following
questions:
What
is
a
City?
Is
Kakuma
Refugee
Camp
a
city?
Begin
by
watching
“
A Day in
Kakuma
Refugee Camp
”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z2RzNphJZk)
and/or
"
Refugees Turn
Kakuma
Camp
Into A Permanent
Home
"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klLD0GTlbSI&nohtml5=False).
These
videos
will
help
to
give
you
a
sense
of
life
in
Kakuma.
Next,
read
“
Refugee camps are the ‘cities of
tomorrow’, says humanitarian
-
aid expert
”
(http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee
-
camps
-
cities
-
of
-
tomorrow
-
killian
-
k
leinschmidt
-
interview
-
humanitarian
-
aid
-
expert/).
You
will
then
draw
on
these
two
sources,
as
well
as
at
least
three
readings
from
the
syllabus,
to
write
an
essay
discussing
the
ways
in
which
Kakuma
Refugee
Camp
is
(and
is
not)
a
city.
If
you
have
difficulty
getting
started,
I
have
posted
a
number
of
(optional)
supplemental
readings
that
may
help.
**This essay should
be at least 1,500 words in length (though no more than 2,000).
Shorter essays must justify their brevity by their eleg
ance; longer ones must justify
their length by the precision of their argument and the clarity of their structure. **
