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Undergraduate Course: Divided Cities (GEGR10106)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis is an honours level course aimed at human geography students, which takes a critical, political economy approach to the theoretical and empirical analysis of urban inequality in multiple contexts both UK and international.
Course description Many of the most urgent, fascinating, and frustrating questions of our time have become urban questions. This course is concerned with the 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 it will examine how market processes and public policies drive spatial polarization/marginalization and the urbanization of injustice. We examine the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; ethnic segregation and ghettoisation, and territorial stigmatization. We explore numerous theoretical approaches that scholars have formulated to analyse and explain urban inequalities. 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  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.wledge & understanding of the scope of Economic & Political Geography
  2. To provide a comprehensive grasp of the intellectual history of urban division complimented by recent theoretical developments.
  3. To gain a knowledge and appreciation of the standard techniques of inquiry 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.
Reading List
1. Wacquant, L. (2008) Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. (2008) Gentrification (New York: Routledge).
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserProf Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Kathryn Will
Tel: (0131 6)50 2624
Email: Kath.Will@ed.ac.uk
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