ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Learning Objectives

• POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION OF SPACE
  To develop a geographical perspective on globalization and to provide an exploration of its spatial impacts.
• GLOBALISED SPACES
  To enable students to engage with theoretical debates within critical geography and related social sciences regarding the relationship between cities and globalization.

Detailed Course Content

• POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION OF SPACE

  Globalization as a material phenomenon and as a political project, the new global interconnections, globalization and the creation of new tensions and divisions as well as new forms of integrations.

• GLOBALISED SPACES

  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 dynamics of cities, but have also multiplied the contradictions and tensions underlying urban development.

Textbook Information

• POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION OF SPACE

  1 - U.Rossi and A.Vanolo. Urban Political Geography. A Global Perspective. London: Sage, 2012

  2 - N. Brenner and R. Keil. “The Global City Reader”. London: Routledge, 2006
  3 - F. Moulaert, A. Rodríguez and E. Swyngedouw. “The Globalized City: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in European Cities” / edited by. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003

• GLOBALISED SPACES

  1 - U.Rossi and A.Vanolo. Urban Political Geography. A Global Perspective. London: Sage, 2012

  2 - N. Brenner and R. Keil. “The Global City Reader”. London: Routledge, 2006
  3 - F. Moulaert, A. Rodríguez and E. Swyngedouw. “The Globalized City: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in European Cities” / edited by. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003