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Edward Soja
Ph.D. in Geography, Syracuse University Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning
Phone: (310) 825-4335
Campus Extension: x54335
esoja@ucla.edu |
Professor Soja teaches in the Regional and
International Development (RID) area of Urban Planning and also teaches courses in urban
political economy and planning theory. After starting his academic career as a specialist
on Africa, Dr. Soja has focused his research and writing over the past 20 years on urban
restructuring in Los Angeles and more broadly on the critical study of cities and
regions. His wide-ranging studies of Los Angeles bring together traditional
political economy approaches and recent trends in critical cultural studies. Of
particular interest to him is the way issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality
intersect with what he calls the spatiality of social life, and with the new cultural
politics of difference and identity that this generates.
In addition to his work on urban restructuring
in Los Angeles, Dr. Soja continues to write on how social scientists and philosophers
think about space and geography, especially in relation to how they think about time and
history. His latest book brings these various research strands together in a comprehensive
look at the geohistory of cities, from their earliest origins to the more recent
development of what he calls the "postmetropolis." His policy interests
are primarily involved with questions of regional development, planning and governance,
and with the local effects of ethnic and cultural diversity in Los Angeles.
Selected Publications:
Soja, E.W. Postmetropolis:
Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
2000.
Soja, E.W. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los
Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1996.
Scott, A.J and E.W. Soja, eds. The City: Los
Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of
California Press. 1996.
Soja, E.W. Postmodern Geographies: The
Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. London: Verso Press, 1989.
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