Geografia del sistema economico globale

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: GIANNI PETINO

Expected Learning Outcomes

This is an introduction to political geography in which the authors, leading scholars in the field, offer, in a simple and clear way, an excellent overview of this rapidly developing discipline to allow easy learning.

Course Structure

Lectures and group work.

Required Prerequisites

Some knowledge of geographical disciplines is recommended.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is recommended although not mandatory.

Detailed Course Content

Political geography is a varied, critical and dynamic field of study that takes shape at the crossroads of political discourse on the forms and practices of power, and of geography, understood as the study of space and the processes that incessantly transform it. From the analysis of state territoriality to the geographies of empire, from the study of electoral phenomena to policies for environmental protection, from the microgeographies of local identity to the complex mechanisms of global governance, Introduction to political geography offers tools for understanding and interpreting the power relations, conflicts and gaps that characterize the contemporary world.

Textbook Information

Introduzione alla geografia politica: Spazi, luoghi, politiche

di M. Jones, R. Jones, M. Whitehead, M. Woods, D. Dixon, M. Hannah

A cura di: G. Pettenati, R. Sommella, A. Vanolo

UTET 2021

Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN
M. Jones, R. Jones, M. Whitehead, M. Woods, D. Dixon, M. Hannah	Introduzione alla geografia politica: Spazi, luoghi, politiche	UTET	2021	9788860086204

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Final exam in oral form and, as appropriate, the production of group projects to be discussed in class.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

What does the "local trap" consist of?

Degree Course in

Sociology of networks, information and innovation