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121-016 Landscapes of Power: New Cultural Geographies | |
Note | Formerly available as 121-207/307. Students who have completed 121-207/307 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. Available in even-numbered years alternating with 121-026 The Mobile World: Geographies of Migration and Tourism. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr Jane Jacobs |
Prerequisites | Completion of 25 points of first year Geography or Sociology or Cultural Studies, or approval of the subject coordinator. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures per week, and ten 1-hour tutorials |
Subject Description | An introduction to cultural geography and other theoretical traditions which foreground cultural production processes as they relate to space, place and landscape. Specific attention will be given to: the social construction of identity in and through place; the relationship between the global and the local; the exercise of power through spatial logics. Specific topics will include: cartography and power, the socio-semiotics of space, geographies of resistance, sexuality and space, and geographies of exclusion and inclusion. Debates dealt with in the course. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 2500 words and a 1.5-hour examination. |
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