Class Urban Sociology

This curricular unit aims to gather scientific knowledge and analytic tools that allow the identification and representation of contemporary urban space. New discursive formations, rearrangements in the instances of organization, control and aggregation of information motivate mutations in the way one experiences, structures and organizes urban space, fostering the transverseness of knowledge that this UC brings together.

Module 1: Urban Sociology 1.Definition and contextualization of the sociological study applied to the urban environment 2.Theoretical Foundation -Chicago School 3.Sociological referencing -Human Ecology 4.United Nations for future goals - City 2030 PART TWO

Module 2: For a new urban sociology. 1.what is an environment ( milieu )? Social changes, technical innovations, reticular structures 2.The role of the city in the constitution of geophilosophy 3.For a sociology of things: the social status of the non-human 4.Networked activism: social movements and action in the public space. 5.Smart-cities as democratic ecologies

Module 3: Medial effects 1.Knowledge, power and subjectivities of media 2.Cinema-city: pedestrian, spectator, user 3.Total surveillance? New architectures and neo-panopticism 4.Materialities of media: New Climate Regime; Anthropocene and the ecological turn 5. Science-fiction: Futurity as an ontological exercise

The classes are of a theoretical nature, combining the exhibition of content with the active participation of students, challenged to question and debate the problems raised by urban sociology. Students will thus be evaluated according to their attendance and their commitment and good participation in the debates (20%); Critical essay (to one of the topics in modules 2 and 3 dealing with the proposed bibliography) and its oral presentation (50%) and project (theoretical and practical) related to the problem of the master's thesis but expected from the perspective of UC. In this work, it will be required to build a problematic on which to build an introductory language, an expository language and a conclusive language. (30%) The appeal period consists of a written exam with a weighting of 100% in the final grade, which will focus on all theoretical and practical content. As a final grade, the student must obtain a minimum grade of 10 points

Ascher, F. (2009). Novos princípios de Urbanismo . Lisboa: Livros Horizonte. Cota: UR/393-BC Bauman, Z. (2006). Confiança e Medo na Cidade . Lisboa: Relógio D'Água.

Deleuze, G. Guattari, F. (1994 [1991]). Geofilosofia. In O que é a Filosofia? Lisboa: Presença. (cota: F/910-BC. Foucault, M. (1994 [1975]). Surveiller et punir . Paris: Gallimard (cota: DP/5-BC)

Habermas, J. (2012). A transformação estrutural da esfera pública . (cota: S/589 ¿BC) Latour, B. (2012 [2005]). Reagregando o Social . Universidade Federal da Bahia. (cota S/896-BC)

Latour, B. (2017). Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime . Cambridge: Polity Press. Kittler, F. (2002). Optical Media: Berlin lectures 1999. Cambridge: Polity Press. (cota AV/636-BC)

O atendimento aos alunos é feito no fim de cada sessão - questões particulares mediante marcação.