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121-016 Landscapes of Power | |
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: Migration and Tourism. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Jane Jacobs |
Prerequisites | Completion of 100 points of First and/or Second Year subjects including at least 50 points at First Year level from approved subjects in your home faculty. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures per week, and ten 1-hour tutorials |
Subject Description | This subject is 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. Students who complete the subject should be able to interpret contemporary social and spatial trends in the light of theoretical perspectives covered in the subject, and be able to write essays which integrate theory and empirical materials. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
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