I’m happy to report that the Thinking Global, Teaching Local blog has ceased publication- happy because it is being succeeded by Contingencies: A Journal of Global Pedagogy, an online, peer-reviewed,…
Published May 13, 2019 by gb994
Author: Raymond Ro, NYU Shanghai China has been going through rapid development, an unparalleled rate of economic growth, and breakneck speed of urbanization in the past several decades. Indeed,…
Read More We Built this City on State Control: Understanding the Chinese Hukou System
Published April 29, 2019 by gb994
Author: Adedamola Osinulu For the professor fortunate enough to teach a course with global content in New York City, the opportunities to draw lessons from the city appear limitless.…
Published April 12, 2019 by gb994
Author: Courtney Hopf, NYU London As a Writing lecturer at NYU’s study away site in London, one of my ongoing challenges and enjoyments is discovering new ways of integrating…
Published March 15, 2019 by gb994
Author: Tim Tomlinson In Fatih Akin’s Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (2004), blackout drunk Cahit Tomruk drives at high speed straight into a brick wall. A suspected suicide (his vehicle…
Read More Supposedly Fun Things We Can’t Stop Repeating: Fatih Akin’s Head-On
Published February 5, 2019 by gb994
Author: Brendan Hogan This post grows out of my recent experience as a professor teaching abroad in London for three years, and Paris and Florence before that for one…
Read More Cosmo/polis: navigating the boundaries of the urban imaginary
Published January 10, 2019 by gb994
Author: Minu Tharoor “Things do not happen in cities: they happen to a significant extent because of cities.” Edward Soja “At a specific, technical level urban space is deemed…
Read More Her City, HerStory: Women’s Bodies & Histories in/of Urban Spaces