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The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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CURRICULUM TIPO:
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Teaching code

4S02383

Coordinator

Cristiana Zara

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-GGR/01 - GEOGRAPHY

Period

Sem. IIB dal Apr 25, 2016 al Jun 5, 2016.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module students will be able to:

• Understand the inherent relevance of social and cultural geography to everyday life and to current issues and debates in contemporary society, adopting geography as a critical tool to interpret contemporary world.
• Understand key themes and concepts in social and cultural geographic scholarship, navigating theories, methods, historical developments and emerging debates within the discipline.
• Appreciate the pedagogical scope of social and cultural geography, relating geographical knowledge to a range of examples drawn from research and educational projects and case studies.
• Think geographically about society and culture, critically engaging with ideas in the module to show how they relate to everyday experience and relevant societal issues.

Program

Central theme: The module is structured around a core theme, that is the relationship between social and cultural geography and contemporary world. The chosen topics aim to clarify such a relationship by addressing a diversity of traditional and emerging ideas and fields of study within social and cultural geography.
The module will develop as follows:

FOUNDATIONS
• What is geography?
• The concept of ‘paradigm’; paradigms in geography.
• Geographical theories: German, French, British and American traditions.
• The concept of ’culture’ and the cultural studies revolution: the cultural turn in geography.
• Cultural geography and ‘New cultural geography’.
• The ‘social’ in geography: critical perspectives on issues of power, identity, difference and (inter)action.
• Representation and practice; the ‘performative turn’ and the new ‘non-representational’ geographies
• Italian social and cultural geography

KEY CONCEPTS
• Place
• Landscape
• City

GEOGRAPHIES OF MOBILITY: TOURISM, TRAVEL AND GEOGRAPHY
• Geographies of the ‘Other’ and ‘Elsewhere’ (notions of ‘self’ and ‘other’).
• Orientalism and ‘imaginative geographies’
• Tourist representations and imaginaries.
• Beyond representation: travel as embodied experience of the world. New phenomenology and the ‘more-than-representational’ approach in tourism geographies.

GEOGRAPHIES OF DIFFERENCE
• Geographies of gender
• Geographies of dis/ability

CHILDREN’S GEOGRAPHIES
• Re)thinking childhood practices, representations and spatial relations geographically.
• Case study: India.

DOING GEOGRAPHY
• Methodologies, approaches and techniques in social and cultural geography; qualitative methods.
• The key contribution of Postcolonial and Feminist theories.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Minca, C. and Colombino, A. Breve Manuale di Geografia Umana, Cedam, Lavis, 2012 (Introduction; Part I: chapters 1,2,3; Part III: chapter 8; Part IV: Introduction and chapter 10).
• Martinelli, C. La geografia culturale nel contesto della geografia umana “internazionale”, QuiEdit, Verona, 2015.
• Teaching material available on Moodle (e-learning platform).

Additional ‘essential’ readings will be indicated during the lectures; these readings are specific to each lecture‘s topic. Students are expected to double check lecture-specific bibliographies made available on Moodle in order to make sure that they have the complete list of ‘essential’ readings required for the exam.

FOR STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING CLASSES: extra required readings for the exam will be indicated in each lecture-specific bibliography, which will be uploaded on to the e-learning platform. These readings will be marked as “essenziali per non-frequentanti” (that is, ‘essential for students not attending classes’).

Examination Methods

Written exam.
Evaluation criteria will include:

• Knowledge of the module’s contents and topics
• Ability to engage critically with themes and ideas of the module and to support the discussion with evidence and examples.
• Appropriate use of geographical lexicon.
• Ability to communicate in a clear and coherent way.
• Correct use of grammar, punctuation, spelling and syntax.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE