CITIES AND GLOBALIZATION
Anno accademico 2021/2022 - 2° annoCrediti: 9
SSD: M-GGR/02 - Geografia economico-politica
Organizzazione didattica: 225 ore d'impegno totale, 171 di studio individuale, 54 di lezione frontale
Semestre: 1°
ENGLISH VERSION
Modalità di svolgimento dell'insegnamento
Students are taught through lectures, seminars, class discussions, case study analysis (also based on multimedia material), fieldworks. Students are exposed to various modes of inter-personal communications and collaborative teamwork. All students are expected to engage in class discussion.
Prerequisiti richiesti
None
Frequenza lezioni
Normally mandatory
Contenuti del corso
The course offers a geographical perspective on globalization and provides an exploration of its spatial impacts. Particular emphasis will be given to the impacts of globalization on urban areas being the city the principal site through which globalization occurs. This is reflected in the various social, economic, and political changes that have not only added emphasis to the dynamics of cities, but have also multiplied the contradictions and tensions underlying urban development.
Specifically, the course aims at pursuing the following learning objectives:
- Acquiring knowledge: the students will acquire theoretical-methodological skills in the field of urban geography to interpret and deconstruct global forces occurring in urban contexts;
- Making judgments: the students will be able to critically evaluate the complex tangle of global/local forces occurring in cities;
- Developing Communication skills: the students will be able to transfer to others, with a full command of technical language, information and assessments about the relationship between cities and globalization;
- Learning skills: at the end of the course students will have gained the necessary knowledge to deepen and integrate theoretical concepts with practical skills for a critical analysis of globalization dynamics that influence and/or emerge from urban contexts.
Testi di riferimento
Text n. 1 Rossi U., Vanolo A., Urban Political Geography. A Global Perspective. London: Sage.
A selection of scientific and newspaper articles will be provided through Studium platform.
Programmazione del corso
| Argomenti | Riferimenti testi | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Key Issues and Themes What is a City? Globalization and the Urban Experience | Text 1, pp. 1- 21 |
| 2 | Urban Development and the Politics of Representation. From Fordism to post-Fordism reinventing cities in a context of economic transition | Text 1 pp. 25-50 |
| 3 | Making Culture Work: The Rise of The Creative City | Text n. 1 pp. 51-68 |
| 4 | The rise of neoliberalism | Text 1, pp. 71-86 |
| 5 | The practice of urban neoliberalism | Text n. 1, pp. 86-102 |
| 6 | Gentrification, global processes and local impacts | Learning material provided through Studium |
| 7 | Urban geopolitics: violence, fear, urbicide | Text n. 1, pp. 103-131 |
| 8 | Politics as contestation | Text 1, pp. 131-178 |
| 9 | Cities and new technologies in (post)pandemic times | Learning material provided through Studium |
Verifica dell'apprendimento
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Oral exam