Module POC2108 for 2022/3
- 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 2022/3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Portfolio 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).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Agnew, J. 2003. Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics. London: Routledge.
--------. 1994. The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory. Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) 1: 53-80.
Amoore, L. (2006) Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror. Political Geography, 25, 336-351.
Blomley, N. K. 2004. Unsettling the city: Urban land and the politics of property. New York: Routledge.
Crampton, J. W. 2003. The political mapping of cyberspace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cresswell, T. 1996. In place/out of place: Geography, ideology, and transgression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Fall, J. J. 2010. Artificial states? On the enduring geographical myth of natural borders. Political Geography, 29(3): 140-147.
Flint, C. and P.J. Taylor 2007. Political Geography: World-system, nation-state and locality. Fifth Edition. New York: Pearson.
Johnson, C., R. Jones, A. Paasi, L. Amoore, A. Mountz, M. Salter & C. Rumford. 2011. Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies. Political Geography, 30, 61- 69.
Kuus, M., and J. Agnew. 2008. “Theorizing the State Geographically: Sovereignty, Subjectivity, and Territoriality.” In K. Cox, M. Low, and J. Robinson (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Political Geography. California: Sage, pp. 95-106.
Magnusson, W. 1985. Urban politics and the local state. Studies in Political Economy 16: 111-142.
Mountz, A. 2003. Human smuggling, the transnational imaginary, and everyday geographies of the nation-state. Antipode, 35(3): 621-44.
Newman, D., and A. Paasi. 1998. Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography. Progress in Human Geography 22 (2): 186-207.
Newman, D. 2006. The Lines that Continue to Separate Us: Borders in our ‘borderless’ world. Progress in Human Geography 30: 143-161.
Ó Tuathail, G. 2006. “Introduction, Overview Part I.” In G. O Tuathail, S. Dalby, and P. Routledge (Eds.). 2006.The Geopolitics Reader. Second Edition: London: Routledge, pp: 1-12; 17-30.
Sharp, J. 2007. Geography and gender: finding feminist political geographies. Progress in Human Geography 31 (3): 381-387.
Taylor, P. J. 1995. Beyond Containers: Internationality, Interstateness, Interterritoriality. Progress in Human Geography 19 (1): 1-15.
———. 1994. The State As Container: Territoriality In The Modern World-System. Progress in Human Geography 18 (2): 151-162.
Tesfahuney, M. 1998. Mobility, Racism and Geopolitics. Political Geography 17: 499-515.
