Undergraduate Course: Frontiers in Human Geography 1 (GEGR10068)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Geosciences |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Geography |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
A majority of the world's population has now become urban, ensuring that many of the most urgent, fascinating, and frustrating questions of our time have become urban questions. This course is concerned with the deeply problematic planetary intensification of urban inequality over the past three decades, looking at the role of neoliberal ?statecraft? in reproducing and reinforcing harsh social divisions within cities. Using detailed case studies from four continents, it will examine how market processes and public policies drive spatial polarization/marginalization and geographical injustice, particularly by class and ?race?. We examine in seriatim the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; segregation and ghettoisation; ?carceral? urban systems; and suburbanization and ?fortification?. A normative approach is adopted throughout, encouraging students to think about how urban inequality in all its forms might be challenged by scholarship and by activism. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
? To provide a cross-national, critical understanding of the geographies of urban inequality.
? To examine the role of neoliberalism (the mobilization of state power in the extension of market rule) in creating and sustaining divided cities.
? To provide a set of analytical lenses to understand key concepts relating to urban problems.
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Assessment Information
Class assessment: As outlined in course handbook
Degree assessment: One 2,000 word essay (40%)
One two hour examination (2 questions) (60%) |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Catherine Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 2572
Email: cathy.campbell@ed.ac.uk |
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