Political Geography

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Course type:

Elective course

When:

4 year, 3 module

Instructor

Zinovyev, Andrey

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course «Political Geography» is designed to show the significance of the political-geographical approach in solving the most important regional and global problems; scientific doctrines, theories and concepts of political geography; methods of political-geographical analysis; developing the fundamental categories, processes, phenomena of political geography to create a systematized integral idea of the patterns of development of the modern world.

Learning Objectives

• - to understand the problems and methods of political geography and their use in comprehensive political science research; - to understand the theoretical basis and methodology of political geography, conceptual provisions of political geographical theories and hypotheses that make up the scientific framework of the political geography; - to have ideas about the directions of spatial transformation of the center-periphery system of the power on different spatial levels; - to learn to establish cause-and-effect relationships, to characterize and evaluate socio-political and socio-economic events and processes, and to identify their relationship to the spatial contexts of places.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• knows of the key political ideas in a chronological and cross-country perspective;
• uses the theoretical approaches for understanding and explaining changes in international relations and problems of world politics;
• works with geographical maps;
• compares different types of information (graphic and text, etc.).

Course Contents

• 1. Space and Politics: How Political Geography is Made?
• 2. Nation, nationalism and citizenship
• 3. Electoral Geography
• 4. Rise of Populism: Geography of Discontent
• 5. Geographies of Social Movements
• 6. Regional Institutions
• 7. Geographies of Environmental Politics

Assessment Elements

• Seminars
  At each seminar, the student has the opportunity to answer questions, participate in discussions and complete the proposed tasks.
• Test
  Test (at the last seminar) includes open and closed type questions in text or graphic (cartographic) form.
• Exam

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * Seminars + 0.3 * Test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Flint, C., & Taylor, P. J. (2018). Political Geography : World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (Vol. Seventh edition). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1802663
• Jones, M., Dixon, D., Hannah, M., Whitehead, M., Jones, R., & Woods, M. (2015). An Introduction to Political Geography : Space, Place and Politics (Vol. Second edition). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=905853

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Agnew, J. A., & Muscarà, L. (2012). Making Political Geography (Vol. 2nd ed). Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=442867

Authors

• IVANOVA ANASTASIYA SERGEEVNA