Module POC2108 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2108: Political Geographies: Local to Global
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics, through both theoretical and practical approaches:
Beginning Where We Are
- Politics, Space and Place in the Everyday
- Approaches to Interdisciplinary Knowing: Methods, Forms, and Practices
Modern Political Geography
- The Space of the State and the International
- Territory and Place
- Borders and Boundaries
“We Have Never Been Modern”: Spaces Against the State
- Feminist and Queer Spaces
- Coloniality, Racialisation and Post-/Decolonial Political Geographies
- Urban Geographies
Contemporary Challenges: Selected Studies in Reterritorialization (different every year)
- Migrations, Refugees, Camps, and Sanctuaries
- Indigenous Sovereignty Claims
- Transnationalism and Social Movements
- Anthropocene, Ecology, and Global Climate Change
- Spaces of Security: Geopolitics and Urban Geopolitics
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Private study students are expected to read suggested texts and make notes prior to seminar sessions. More specifically, students are expected to devote approximately: 48 hours to weekly readings and seminar preparation |
Guided Independent Study | 10 | Formative activities and reflecting on assessment feedback |
Guided independent study | 40 | Independent research, reading, and writing |
Guided independent study | 10 | Guidebook preparation and reflection |
Guided independent study | 20 | Critical research essay preparation, editing, peer reviewing |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).