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Code

GEO 602

Category

Compulsory

ECTS

7,5

Hour per Week

3

E-services

e-class

Instructors

Iosifides Th.

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to foster critical engagement with issues and approaches concerning the contemporary cultural construction of space. It examines the new cultural geography and the cultural turn within geography, as well as questions of cultural and spatial identities. Emphasis is placed on mass culture, consumerism, and the new geographies of everyday life. Furthermore, the course analyses the role of technology in shaping space–time relations, and explores notions such as privacy, publicity, dwelling, and community in the network society.

General Competences

  • Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using appropriate technologies
  • Adaptation to new situations and decision-making
  • Autonomous and group work
  • Work in an international environment
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Generation of new research ideas
  • Respect for difference, multiculturalism, and the natural environment
  • Demonstration of social, professional, and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Development of critical thinking and self-reflection
  • Encouraging free, creative and deductive thinking

Course Content

Human Geography and the Contemporary Cultural Construction of Space

  • Human geography and the cultural dimension of space: key concepts, historical evolution, and contemporary epistemologies
  • Globalization – Consumerism – Leisure / Tourism
  • The question of identity in space

Geography of Social Exclusion and Poverty:
Social Exclusion: The concept of social exclusion; social and spatial dimensions. Policies addressing social exclusion, with emphasis on the Greek case—from refugee resettlement to the European context.
Poverty: The concept of poverty—systems of measurement, conceptual clarifications, data and indicators, theoretical background, methods of measurement, mapping, and spatial visualization. Urban and rural poverty. New dimensions of poverty. Geographical dimensions of poverty and social inequality in both developed and developing contexts, with specific reference to Greece.
Use of Geoinformation Tools in Social Geography: Poverty maps, applications and uses, dimensions, measurements, and indicators. Mapping of census, auxiliary, and combined datasets. Spatial analysis of crime.
Socio-Spatial Inequalities at Different Social Scales: Dynamics of socio-spatial inequalities at local, urban, regional, and global levels. Causes and consequences of socio-spatial inequalities.
Space and Mobility: Mobility (migration, refugees) and space: regimes and regulation of mobility.
Space and Society → Theoretical and Research Issues: Theoretical perspectives on the relationship between space and society, epistemological and methodological debates.

Required Readings (Theano S. Terkenli)

  • Cloke, Paul; Philip Crang and Mark Goodwin, eds. 1999. Introducing Human Geographies, 1st Edition. London: Arnold. Section 6: Social and Cultural Geographies, pp. 207-34.
  • Johnson, R.J.; Peter Taylor and Michael Watts, eds. 1995. Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century. Oxford: Blackwell. Part IV, Chapter 15, Kevin Robins, The New Spaces of Global Media, pp. 248-62.
  • Jackson, Peter. 1999. Consumption and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Shopping. European Planning Studies, Vol. 7, No 1, pp: 25-39.
  • Terkenli, T. S. 2002. Landscapes of tourism: towards a new cultural economy of space? Tourism Geographies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 229-254.
  • Valentine, Gill. 1999. Imagined geographies… and Susan J. Smith, The cultural politics of difference… in Human Geography Today, Doreen Massey, John Allen and Philip Sarre (eds.). Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Goodwin, Mark. 1999. Structure-agency… and Butler, Ruth, The Body… in Cloke, Paul; Philip Crang and Mark Goodwin (eds.), Introducing Human Geographies. London: Arnold.

Supplementary Readings (Theano S. Terkenli)

  • Peet, Richard. 1998. Modern Geographical Thought. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Cloke, Paul; Chris Philo and David Sadler. 1991. Approaching Human Geography. New York: The Guilford Press.
  • Cloke, Paul; Philip Crang and Mark Goodwin, eds. 1999. Introducing Human Geographies, 2nd Edition. London: Arnold.
  • Mitchell, Don. 2000. Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Agnew, J. A.; Livingstone, D. and Rogers, A., eds. 1996. Human Geography: An Essential Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Livingstone, D. 1992. The Geographical Tradition. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Johnston, R. J.; Gregory D.; Pratt, G.; Smith, D. M. and Watts, M. J., eds. 2000. The Dictionary of Human Geography, 4th Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Jackson, Peter. 1989. Maps of Meaning. London: Routledge.
  • Duncan, James and David Ley, eds. 1993. Place/Culture/Representation. London: Routledge.
  • Barnes, Trevor J. and James S. Duncan, eds. 1992. Writing Worlds. London: Routledge.
  • Miller, Daniel; Peter Jackson; Nigel Thrift; Beverley Holbrook and Michael Rowlands. 1998. Shopping, Place, Identity. London: Routledge.
  • Morley, David and Kevin Robins. 1995. Spaces of Identity. London: Routledge.
  • Baudrillard, Jean. 1998. The Consumer Society. London: Sage.
  • Hannerz, Ulf. 1996. Transnational Connections. London: Routledge.
  • Featherstone, Mike, ed. 1990. Global Culture. London: Sage.
  • Urry, John. 1995. Consuming Places. London: Routledge.
  • Bird, Jon; Barry Curtis; Tim Putnam; George Robertson and Lisa Tickner, eds. 1993. Mapping the Futures. London: Routledge.
  • Massey, Doreen. 1994. Space, Place and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Jackson, Peter. 1999. Commodity cultures: the traffic in things. Trans Inst Br Geogr NS 24, pp: 95-108.
  • Aesopos, Yiannis. 2015. Tourism Landscapes: Remaking Greece. Athens: Domes Editions.
  • Keith, Michael and Steve Pile, eds. 1993. Place and the Politics of Identity. London: Routledge.
  • Konstantopoulou, Chrysoula; Maratou-Alipranti, Laura; Germanos, Dimitris; Oikonomou, Theodoros, eds. 1999. “We” and the “Others”. Athens: EKKE & Typothito–Dardanos.
  • Castells, Manuel. 1997. The Information Age: The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Adams, Paul C.; Steven Hoelscher and Karen E. Till, eds. 2001. Textures of Place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Pile, Steve and Nigel Thrift. 1995. Mapping the Subject. London: Routledge.
  • Leonti, Artemis. 1995. Topographies of Hellenism. Athens: Scripta.
  • Prost, Antoine and Gerard Vincent, eds. 1991. A History of Private Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
  • Contemporary Issues 63, Apr.–Jun. 1997. Lafazani, Dora, “Us and the ‘Others’: Managing Ethno-Cultural Diversity” (pp. 11–114). Angelopoulos, Giorgos, “Ethnic Groups and Identities: The Terms and the Evolution of Their Content.
  • Sevastakis, Nikolas. 2004. Commonplace Country: Aspects of Public Space and Value Antinomies in Contemporary Greece. Athens: Savvalas.
  • Massey, Doreen and Pat Jess, eds. 1995. A Place in the World? Oxford: The Open University Press.
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