Course - The Global in the Local - Social and Cultural Geographical Perpectives II - GEOG8517
The Global in the Local - Social and Cultural Geographical Perpectives II
About
About the course
Course content
The course builds on the masters course GEOG3517. Candidates who did not study this subject should follow the lectures and study the readings for this course. The lectures/seminars in the master course GEOG3517 will be given in Norwegian.
As in GEOG3517, the primary theme is the interplay between social and cultural globalisation processes, places, regions and people. Central issues are: 1) how places are simultaneously a part of the global and the local, 2) why and how places continue to have meaning, and 3) how places and people are mutually constituted. The course aims to provide increased insight into concepts such as difference, identity, meaning, representations and social practice, as well as empirical-oriented research objectives linked to these. For example, the significance of class, gender, sexuality, rurality, urbanity, race, and ethnicity are highlighted. The course is primarily oriented towards the Western world.
GEOG8517 is a reading course and the reading list will be decided upon individually. The paper can be handed in, in either English or Norwegian.
Learning outcome
The course provides the candidates with hight competence on the relations between global and local/regional processes of change, using central theories and concepts in social and cultural geography.
Learning methods and activities
Paper.
Required previous knowledge
MA in Geography, or equivalent
Subject areas
- Geography