ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICO-POLITICA
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| 2021/2022 | 8 |
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| Nico Bazzoli |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
This course aims to provide the basic knowledge of the organization of the economic and political of space. We will discuss the theoretical issues and methods of interpreting various social phenomena placed at different geographical scales. In particular, we will focus on the spatial aspects of development, power, regulation, and inequality. The goal is to provide tools and knowledge for critical reading of the economic and political fields, increasing awareness of the transformations taking place and the interconnections between the local and global dimensions.
Program
• Geography, space, complexity
• Concepts and tools of the geographical inquiry
• Globalization, places, society
• Populations and mobility
• The question of development
• Environment, risks, vulnerabilities
• Economic location and uneven development
• Local development, post-Fordism, innovation
• Global networks and production chains
• Cities, nodes, centrality
• Glocalization, competition, urban rescaling
• Urban structure and marginality
• Space and power
• State and regulation
• Places, participation, protest
• Vote, inequality, tradition
• Political geographies of globalization
• Environmental policies and social movements
• Geopolitics and critical geopolitics
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course, students should have acquired knowledge and understanding about the main theoretical approaches to the spatial dimension of social, economic, and political phenomena.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students should be able to apply their knowledge to analyze social, economic, and political processes taking place in geographical space.
Making judgements: Students should have the ability to critically analyze the processes of interest and the policies that address them.
Communication: Students should be familiar with the vocabulary, terminology, and concepts of human geography.
Lifelong learning skills: Students should have the ability to understand and use the literature by identifying the thematic areas and the sources for deepening knowledge
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures
- Attendance
Strongly recommended
- Course books
- E. Bignante, F. Celata, A. Vanolo, Geografie dello sviluppo: una prospettiva critica e globale, Utet, 2014
- M. Jones et al, Introduzione alla geografia politica. Spazi, luoghi, politiche, Utet, 2021
- Assessment
Oral examination. The discussion will focus on course books with links to current public issues and debates.
The vote is expressed in thirtieths.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
Non-attending students will have to study a total of three texts: the two course books (Bignante et al. 2014, Jones et al. 2021) plus a book of their choice between the following:
- N. Brenner, Stato, spazio, urbanizzazione, Guerini, 2016
- Massey D., Jess P., Luoghi, culture, globalizzazione, Utet Università, 2001
- A. De Rossi (a cura di), Riabitare l'Italia. Le aree interne tra abbondoni e riconquiste, Donzelli, 2020 (Limitatamente alla Parte prima e Parte seconda)
- J.W. Moore, Antropocene o capitalocene? Scenari di ecologia-mondo nella crisi planetaria, Ombre corte, 2017
- G. Arrighi, Il Lungo XX secolo. Denaro, potere e le origini del nostro tempo, Il Saggiatore, 2014
- Assessment
Oral examination.
The vote is expressed in thirtieths.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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