ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year- POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION OF SPACE: Luca Ruggiero
- GLOBALISED SPACES: Luca Ruggiero
Scientific field: M-GGR/02 - Economic and political geography
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
ENGLISH VERSION
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