You should be familiar with these as background/supplement to your current reading. This will be constantly updated as your project develops.
Baxter, Charles. Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2008. Print.
["Stillness"]
Baxter, Charles. The
Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot. Saint Paul: Graywolf
Press, 2007. Print.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Print.
[Chapter 1 "The
Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World
Reversed" and chapter 2 "The
Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of
Symbolic Goods"]
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Rules of Art: Genesis
and Structure of the Literary Field. Trans.
Susan Emanuel. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995. Print.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903. Print.
Geertz, Clifford. "Deep
Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." Daedalus
134.4 (2005): 56–86. Print.
Hall, Stuart. "Cultural
Identity and Diaspora." Identity:
Community, Culture, Difference. Ed. Jonathan
Rutherford. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990. 222–37.
Print.
Hall, Stuart, Jessica Evans, and Sean Nixon, eds. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2013. Print.
["Introduction"
and chapter 1 "The
Work of Representation"]
Nagavajara, Chetana. Punam Ranad Tum:
Conversations with Prof. Dr. Chetana Nagavajara on
Leadership. Nakhon Pathom: Mahidol
University, 2015. Print.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Decolonising
the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.
London: J. Currey, 1986. Print.
Shklovsky, Victor. Theory of Prose. Trans. Benjamin Sher. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009. Print.
[Read at least chapter 1 "Art as Device"]
Williams, Raymond. Keywords:
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. New York: OUP,
1985. Print.
Modernization
Appadurai, Arjun, ed. Globalization. London:
Duke UP, 2001. Print.
Appadurai, Arjun. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition. London: Verso, 2013. Print.
Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin, 1988. Print.
Chari, Sharad, and
Stuart Corbridge, eds. The
Development Reader. London: Routledge, 2008. Print.
Evans, Peter. Dependent
Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and
Local Capital in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton UP,
1979. Print.
Harvey, David. Cosmopolitanism
and the Geographies of Freedom. New York: Columbia
UP, 2009. Print.
Harvey, David. Spaces
of Hope. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000. Print.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000. Print.
[Chapter 17 "Time-Space
Compression and the Postmodern Condition"]
Harvey, David. "The Right to the City." New Left Review 53 (2008): 23–40. Print.
Harvey, David. The Urban Experience. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. Print.
[Chapter 6 "Money, Time, Space, and the City" and chapter 8 "The Urbanization of Consciousness" are especially relevant to your interest, I think]
Keith, Michael. After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism. London: Routledge, 2005. Print.
["Introduction:
Globalisation, Urbanism and Cosmopolitanism Fever"]
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Place, 1880–1918. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003. Print.
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. Print.
Portes, Alejandro. "Modernity and Development: A Critique." Studies in Comparative International Development 8 (1973): 247–79. Print.
Ritzer, George, and
Zeynep Atalay, eds. Readings
in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates.
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print.
Sen, Amartya. Development
as Freedom. Oxford: OUP, 2001. Print.
Budick, Sanford, and
Wolfgang Iser, eds. The
Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space
Between. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. Print.
Castells, Manuel. Communication Power. New York: OUP, 2009. Print.
Hall, Edward T. The Silent Language. New York: Anchor, 1990. Print.
Hatim, Basil, and Ian
Mason. The Translator as
Communicator. London: Routledge, 1999. Print.
Jakobson, Roman, and
Linda Waugh. The Sound
Shape of Language. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1979.
Print.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In the House of the
Interpreter: A Memoir. New York: Pantheon, 2012.
Print.
Somtow, S. P. "Who
Am I?: A Short Course in Reinventing Oneself as a
Southeast Asian Writer." Opus
50. Los Angeles: Diplodocus Press, 2008. 10–22.
Print.
Tymoczko, Maria. Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators. Manchester: St. Jerome, 2010. Print.
Williams, Raymond. Communications. Middlesex: Penguin, 1977. Print.
Travel
Clifford, James. "Notes on Travel and Theory." Inscriptions 5 (1989): 177–88.
Clifford, James. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997. Print.
["Prologue:
In Medias Res"; "1: Traveling
Cultures"]
Culler, Jonathan. "The
Semiotics of Tourism." Framing
the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions. Norman: U
of Oklahoma P, 1990. 153–67. Print.
Rancière, Jacques. Short Voyages to the Land of the People. Trans. James B. Swenson. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003. Print.
Said, Edward. "Traveling
Theory." The World,
the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge: Harvard UP,
1983. 226–47. Print.
Urry, John, and Jonas Larsen. The Tourist Gaze 3.0. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011. Print.
Research
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Print.
Mann, Thomas. The Oxford Guide to Library Research. 4th ed. Oxford: OUP, 2015. Print.
Palmquist, Mike. The Bedford Researcher. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. Print.
Songphan Choemprayong.
"Search Strategies." Presentation. 2015. 
(1.8 MB)
Developing a Research Question, ESC Online Writing Center
Genre
and the Research Paper, Purdue Online Writing Lab
Research Writing at the Graduate Level, Portland State University Writing Center
Acheson, Katherine O.
Writing Essays about
Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College
Students. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2010.
Print.
Graff, Gerald, and
Cathy Birkenstein. "They
Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing.
3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Print.
Kennedy, X. J.,
Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Marcia F. Muth. The
Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research
Manual, and Handbook. 10th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. Print.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.
"Paragraphs."
The Writing Center.
University of Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Strunk, William, Jr. The Elements of Style. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1920. Print.
Swales, John M., and Christina B. Feak. Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills. 3rd ed. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2012. Print. Michigan Series in English for Academic and Professional Purposes.
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 8th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013. Print.
Weston, Anthony. A Rulebook for Arguments.
4th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008. Print.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. New York: HarperCollins, 2013. Print.
Literature
Review
Firestone, Juanita. "The Strategic Literature Review." University of Texas at San Antonio. Aug. 2010.
Gould, Steve. "How to Write a Literature Review." Centre for Academic Success. Birmingham City University.
"Learn How to Write a Review of Literature." The Writing Center. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"Literature Reviews." The Writing Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill.
"Starting a Literature Review." Study Advice. University of Reading.
Taylor, Dena. "The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It." Writing. University of Toronto.
"Write a Literature Review." University Library. University of California Santa Cruz.
"Abstracts." The Writing Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Abstracts." The Writing Center. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Cleveland, Donald, and
Ana Cleveland. Introduction
to Indexing and Abstracting. 4th ed.
Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2013. Print.
Coopman, Philip. "How to Write an Abstract." Carnegie Mellon University. 1997.
Cremmins, Edward T. The Art of Abstracting.
2nd ed. Arlington, VA: Information Resources
Press, 1996. Print.
Proctor, Margaret. "The Abstract." Writing. University of Toronto.
"Writing an Abstract." University of Adelaide.