GEOGRAPHY

Knowledge and understanding:

Basic knowledge of the cultural, economic, and geopolitical frameworks.

Basic knowledge of the great lines of diffusion of the economic crisis.
Basic knowledge of the main methods of investigation and theories on the human settlement and the socio-environmental conflicts.

Applying knowledge and understanding:

Basic knowledge of global geopolitical frameworks

Using basic tools of the geographical analysis, applying to studies on the great cultural areas.

Connecting theoretical knowledge and the practical study of the territories.

Connecting theoretical framework and the study of migrations processes.

Making judgement:

Identifying the main social phenomena with cartographic and iconografic tools.

Applying theories to practical problems and issues in the regional territory.

Communication skills:

Describing processes and phenomena.

Giving examples and reasoning on theories and cases of study.

Learning skills:

In-depth understanding of the main issues trought searching for scientific sources and databases (e.g., JStor, Eric, WoS, ect. …)

The course will be planned on nine weeks. During the class, frontal lessons, didactic games and forum debates will be held.

Basic knowledges in the human sciences.

Regular participation in classroom activities, such as didactic games and forums, is recommended.

The course is aimed to present the main issues related to large global transformations of the last decades. A brief overview of the global ecological crisis and several geopolitical and environmental problems facing Human Communities will be presented. It also will contribute to the formation of skills related to the analysis of geographical processes.

Then, the course will address the analysis of the current socio-ecological debate, focusing the environmental transformations of economic globalization and the social conflicts related to the human living conditions. It will pay particular attention to the problems posed by the new social conflicts.

1. Hubbard P., Kitchin R. Bartley B. and Fuller D., 2005. Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. London-New York: Continuum (pp.250).

2. Shaw, W.S., Herman, R.D.K. & Dobbs, G J., 2006. Encountering indigeneity: re-imagining and decolonizing geography. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 88 (3):267–276. (Disponibile all'indirizzo: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16797/nmai_Geografiska2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

3. De Leeuw, S. & Hunt, S., 2018. Unsettling decolonizing geographies. Geography Compass, 12:e12376. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12376

4. Patel, R. & Moore, J. W., 2017. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Students should be able to use the Atlas:

1. Environmental Justice Atlas: www.ejatlas.org

The exam will consists of an oral examination. The interview will cover the entire syllabus.