Undergraduate Course: Understanding the City: Marginality and Division (GEGR10097)
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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| 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. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. To provide a detailed, cross-national and critical understanding of the geographies of urban inequality so that students are capable of offering professional level insights
2. To provide a detailed look at the intellectual history of urban division complimented by recent developments
3. To gain a knowledge and appreciation of the standard techniques of enquiry into social injustice in the city
4. To provide a set of analytical lenses to understand key concepts relating to urban problems so that students are able to critically identify and conceptualise problems found in divided cities
5. To gain an appreciation and understanding of the various forms of urban division |
Assessment Information
Class Assessment: As outlined in course handbook
Degree Assessment: One 2,000 word essay (40%)plus One two-hour examination (2 questions) (60%) |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | GEGR10097 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Catherine Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: cathy.campbell@ed.ac.uk |
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