POWER, PLACE, IDENTITY

GEOG 501

Explore the concepts of space and place from the perspective of learning and everyday experience. Examines how space and place emerge out of fundamental human needs, experiences, and ways of thinking.

GEOG 318

Introduction to the contemporary study of geopolitics, featuring the main concepts and research themes encountered in this field. Examine the formation of geopolitical images of the world, where these images come from, and how they have shaped our thinking and politics over time.

GEOG 175

Explores emerging topics in human geography (e.g., economic geography, urban geography, political geography) and people-environment geography (e.g., political ecology, environmental history).

GEN&WS/GEOG 504

Provides an opening to some of the key debates and practices in feminist (political) geography. Feminist geography focuses on questions of power, difference, embodiment, and social change. How are feminist geographies in conversation with or part of other fields of inquiry, such as critical ethnic studies and Indigenous studies, which also focus on questions of difference, epistemologies of knowledge, and social transformation and/or decolonization? That is, what are the relationships of feminist geographic inquiry to liberatory projects of ending racism, capitalism, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy. Explore how feminist theories and approaches in geography transformed prevailing political geographic questions and concerns, such as power, politics, territory, boundaries, sovereignty, and violence. What do feminist principles and debates over feminist politics and methods bring to (political) geography?

GEOG 918

Surveys recent and classic works in political geography.