Spring 2025 - GEOG 241 D100
People, Place, Society (3)
Class Number: 4710
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Thu, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Apr 17, 2025
Thu, 8:30–11:30 a.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Katie Gravestock
kgravest@sfu.ca
Office: TBA
Office Hours: Thursdays from 11am-12pm
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Prerequisites:
One of GEOG 100, INDG 101, SA 101, or SA 150.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An introduction to key concepts and contexts in contemporary geographical approaches to social practices, meanings, and struggles. Breadth-Social Sciences.
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Description
This course examines how power structures shape social relations and produce spatialities of difference. We will analyze how space and place is contested, resisted, and negotiated across various geographical scales. From a Canadian context, we will explore how social relations operate within racist, sexist, colonial, and capitalist frameworks, and how struggles for social justice are spatially produced. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, antiracist, queer, psychoanalytic, and Marxist geographies, we will analyze key themes, concepts, and queries within social geography. Course themes will include settler colonialism, labour, inequality, and social difference, gentrification, homelessness and public space, the politics of difference and disability, nationalism, and geographies of far-right Movements.
Course Organization
Two hours of lecture and one hour of tutorial each week.
Note: There will be NO tutorials during the first week of class.
Grading
- Tutorial Participation: 10%
- Tutorial Presentation: 10%
- Midterm Exam: 20%
- Assignment: 30%
- Final Exam: 30%
NOTES:
Centre for Accessible Learning
Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need classroom or exam accommodations are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (1250 Maggie Benston Centre, caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as soon as possible to ensure that they are eligible and that approved accommodations and services are implemented in a timely fashion.
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Journal articles (available online).
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION
Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.