Swedish name: Global rättvisa
This syllabus is valid: 2016-11-14 and until further notice
Syllabus for courses starting after 2016-11-14
Syllabus for courses starting between 2011-01-17 and 2016-11-13
Syllabus for courses starting between 2009-01-26 and 2011-01-16
Course code: 2KG047
Credit points: 15
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Human Geography: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Department of Geography
Revised by: Head of Department of Geography and Economic History, 2015-11-27
Drawing on critical geographical perspectives and the concepts of space, place, culture, power, and difference, the purpose of the course is to draw attention to global inequalities. We raise the issue of scale in attempting to formulate a coherent conceptual framework for integrating power relations across the globe, from the human body up to global processes. The importance and the intersection of social categories such as gender, class and ethnicity is also integrated into the course. These analytical tools provide a starting point for thinking about the possibilities for social change. Course themes may include, for instance, colonialism and post-colonialism, globalization and economic relations, public/urban spaces, and international migration.
After completing the course the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- in writing and during seminars explain processes of global social and economic inequalities and its effects on different geographical scales,
- in broad outline explain the relationship between the construction of place and categories such as gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality,
- understand and give account of relevant academic texts, make connections to current affairs and relate to global power relations,
Skills and understanding
- in writing give account of concepts and theories presented in the course, and
- make oral presentations.
The teaching consists of lectures, seminars as well as individual and group assignments. The introductory part of the course is spent introducing theories, concepts and implications of geographical inequality. This theoretical knowledge will be used as a framework and as a tool to independently and in groups analyze processes of inequality on different geographical scales. The analyses will be presented and discussed during seminars spread all along the course. Intersectional perspectives will be integrated into the lectures and assignments.
The spoken and written language of the course is English. The study form is 50%. Scheduled activities mostly take place during evenings, on Campus.
The examination consists of written papers that are presented and discussed during seminars. The grades Pass with distinction (VG), Pass (G) and Fail (U) are used. In order to pass the course and receive a grade, all examinations need to be completed and receive the grade Pass. The final grade is based on the grades from the different examinations and will be decided when all examinations have been passed. Upon request students may receive the grades A-FX.
It is not possible to appeal against a received grade, i.e. to get it examined by a higher authority. A student can always ask the examiner to reconsider the grading. A student who has failed two consecutive examinations has the right to get another examiner, unless specific reasons arise (HF Ch.6 §11B). Students are not permitted to retake exams they already passed in order to raise their grade.
ACADEMIC CREDIT TRANSFER
Credit transfer is always examined individually.
Massey, Doreen (2004)
Geographies of responsibility, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Geografiska Annaler Volume 86 Issue 1, pages 5-18. Marmots
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Nagar, R., Lawson, V., McDowell, L. and S. Hanson
Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization. Economic Geography 78, pp. 257-284.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Murphy Alexander B.
Geography : why it matters
Medford, Massachusetts : Polity : 2018 : xii, 162 pages :
ISBN: 9781509523009
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Rodríguez-Pose A
The revenge of the places that dont matter (and what to do about it).
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Vol 11.Issue 1, pp. 189-209 : 2018 :
Anderson Jon
Understanding cultural geography : places and traces
Third edition. : London : Routledge : 2021 : x, 269 Seiten :
ISBN: 9780367414931
Mandatory
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Massey, Doreen (2004)
Geographies of responsibility, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Geografiska Annaler Volume 86 Issue 1, pages 5-18. Marmots
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Massey, D. (1991)
A Global Sense of Place. Marxism Today, June 1991 pp. 24-29.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Nagar, R., Lawson, V., McDowell, L. and S. Hanson
Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization. Economic Geography 78, pp. 257-284.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Brah, A. and A. Phoenix
Revisiting Intersectionality. Journal of International Women Studies 5, pp. 75-86.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Anderson Jon
Understanding cultural geography : places and traces
Second edition. : Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2015. : xiii, 318 pages :
ISBN: 9780415734493 (hardback)
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Massey, Doreen (2004)
Geographies of responsibility, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Geografiska Annaler Volume 86 Issue 1, pages 5-18. Marmots
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Massey, D. (1991)
A Global Sense of Place. Marxism Today, June 1991 pp. 24-29.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Nagar, R., Lawson, V., McDowell, L. and S. Hanson
Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization. Economic Geography 78, pp. 257-284.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Brah, A. and A. Phoenix
Revisiting Intersectionality. Journal of International Women Studies 5, pp. 75-86.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Anderson Jon
Understanding cultural geography : places and traces
Second edition. : Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2015. : xiii, 318 pages :
ISBN: 9780415734493 (hardback)
Search the University Library catalogue
Clark, G.L. (2005):
Money flows like mercury: The geography of global finance. Geografiska Annaler 87 B:2 pp. 99112.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Massey, Doreen (2004)
Geographies of responsibility, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Geografiska Annaler Volume 86 Issue 1, pages 5-18. Marmots
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Massey, D. (1991)
A Global Sense of Place. Marxism Today, June 1991 pp. 24-29.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Nagar, R., Lawson, V., McDowell, L. and S. Hanson
Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization. Economic Geography 78, pp. 257-284.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Mitchell, Don, and Nik Heynen.
"The geography of survival and the right to the city: Speculations on surveillance, legal innovation, and the criminalization of intervention." Urban Geography 30.6 (2009): 611-632.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Barnett C
Postcolonialism: space, textuality, and power (Chapter12)
Included in:
Approaches to human geography
London : SAGE : 2006. : ix, 349 p. :
Brah, A. and A. Phoenix
Revisiting Intersectionality. Journal of International Women Studies 5, pp. 75-86.
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Marmot M
Social determinants of health inequalities
Included in:
The Lancet.
London : 1996- : 365 : pages 1099-1104 :
Tickell, A (2002)
Neoliberalizing Space. Antipode 34:3 pp. 380-404. Strange, S. (1999): The Westfailure System. Review of International Studies 25 pp. 345354. Sunley, P., Martin, R. &
Inst. för geografi och ekonomisk historia :
Feminist Geographies of the City: Multiple Voice
Preston V, Ustundag E
Included in:
A companion to feminist geography
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 617 s. : Chapter 15 :
Silvey R
Geographies of Gender and Migration: Spatializing Social Difference
International Migration Review, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 64-81 : 2006 :