Spring 2018 - GEOG 421 E100
Geographical Political Economy (4)
Class Number: 11040
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Thu, 5:30–7:20 p.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
Geoffrey Mann
geoffm@sfu.ca
1 778 782-2014
Office: RCB 7226
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Prerequisites:
GEOG 321.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Examines the historical development of the material spaces and places affected by changing capitalist dynamics and the dominant theories through which they are explained, legitimized, and criticized, from a geographical perspective. Students who received credit for GEOG 421 (STT), Advanced Contemporary Capitalism, may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course will be held at Harbour Centre, and is co-organized with a parallel class at UBC taught by Dr. Jessica Dempsey, and every class meeting will involve both groups working together. It will focus in particular on the political-economic dimensions of the environmental transition known as the “Anthropocene”, a term some use to describe the era of geological time in which we live, an reasonably new era in which human activity fundamentally determines the natural history of the planet as a whole. The changes this transition is imposing on the Earth and its human and non-human inhabitants are among the most pressing challenges facing us all at this moment, and any effort to figure out how we respond will demand an active effort to understand where we are and how we got here. Active participation in class discussion is required.
Grading
- Paper 25%
- Group project 40%
- Participation 25%
- In class writing 10%
NOTES:
Evaluation (tentative; likely to change)
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Course package of articles (most available free via library) 3 or 4 books, yet to finally determined.
Registrar Notes:
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