Political and Economic Geography (advanced)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide, to students of the master's degree course, the theoretical and analytical tools of political and economic geography to allow to develop critical thinking and interpretations of main economic and political phenomena which take place in space and landscape. Attention will be paid in particular to the themes of globalization and post-globalization, development and underdevelopment, spatial relations, international cooperation and tourism, in harmony with the more general training foreseen by the master's degree course in "Languages and Cultures for International Communication and Cooperation". Specifically, the objectives of the course include:
- gain knowledge and interpretive skills with reference to the spatial aspects of economic, political and geopolitical phenomena;
- the development of independent judgment and communication skills in an advanced argumentation and interpretation of relevant geo-economic and geopolitical phenomena.
- gain knowledge and interpretive skills with reference to the spatial aspects of economic, political and geopolitical phenomena;
- the development of independent judgment and communication skills in an advanced argumentation and interpretation of relevant geo-economic and geopolitical phenomena.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student must have developed knowledge and sensitivity functional to the use of a 'geographical and critical view' on a vast number of economic and political phenomena.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course aims to introduce students to a critical reflection and to the global scale on contents, practices and tools of political and economic geography. The course will tend to grasp the great diversity of the contemporary world (with its regions that know different forms of development, underdevelopment, cooperation and conflict) and to highlight the different actors and points of view present on the international political scene and in world economic circuits. The main political-economic flows, transnational and technological networks, forms of governance at different geographical scales will also be analyzed.
At the end of the course, the concepts acquired in political and economic geography will be applied to approach the topic of territorial attractiveness at different geographical scales.
At the end of the course, the concepts acquired in political and economic geography will be applied to approach the topic of territorial attractiveness at different geographical scales.
Prerequisites for admission
Students shold have attended at least one geography course (human, regional, urban geography, etc) in their previous studies. Students who do not possess these prerequisites are invited to contact the teacher for an integration of the program.
Teaching methods
Lectures useful to privilege the logical-conceptual language; participatory lessons supported by images, pictures, cartographic and paracartographic representations to strengthen the learning of the visual and iconographic language; interactive lessons conducted by the teacher and by experts on specific topics.
Teaching Resources
The teaching will be organized in two teaching unit, A and B.
The student who intends to take the exam as an attending student will bring the following program:
Teaching Unit A
- E-learning lessons and documents uploaded on "Ariel" digital teaching platform;
- Certomà C., Conti S., Giaccaria P., Rossi U., Salone C., Geografia economica e politica, Pearson, Milano-Torino, 2022.
Teaching Unit B
- E-learning lessons and documents uploaded on "Ariel" digital teaching platform;
- Valdemarin S., Lucia M.G., Geografia dell'attrattività territoriale. Comprendere e gestire lo sviluppo locale, Pearson, Milano-Torino, 2022.
The student who intends to take the exam as a Non-attending student will bring the following program:
Teaching Unit A
- Cerreti C., Marconi M., Sellari P., Spazi e poteri. Geografia politica, geografia economica, geopolitica, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2019. Students have to prepare the first four parts of the text. The fifth part of the text is NOT to be studied.
Teaching Unit B
Choose a book from the following list:
- Gavinelli D., Zanolin G., Geografia del turismo contemporaneo. Pratiche, narrazioni e luoghi, Carocci, Roma, 2019.
- Lazzeroni M., Morazzoni M. (a cura di), Interpretare la quarta rivoluzione industriale. La geografia in dialogo con le altre discipline, Carocci, Roma, 2020.
- Lizza G., Gli orizzonti della nuova geopolitica. Verso il 2050, UTET Università, Torino-Novara, 2021.
- Loyer B., Geopolitica. Metodi e concetti (ed. ita. a cura di Bettoni G.), UTET Università, Torino-Novara, 2020.
- Moretti E. La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.
The student who intends to take the exam as an attending student will bring the following program:
Teaching Unit A
- E-learning lessons and documents uploaded on "Ariel" digital teaching platform;
- Certomà C., Conti S., Giaccaria P., Rossi U., Salone C., Geografia economica e politica, Pearson, Milano-Torino, 2022.
Teaching Unit B
- E-learning lessons and documents uploaded on "Ariel" digital teaching platform;
- Valdemarin S., Lucia M.G., Geografia dell'attrattività territoriale. Comprendere e gestire lo sviluppo locale, Pearson, Milano-Torino, 2022.
The student who intends to take the exam as a Non-attending student will bring the following program:
Teaching Unit A
- Cerreti C., Marconi M., Sellari P., Spazi e poteri. Geografia politica, geografia economica, geopolitica, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2019. Students have to prepare the first four parts of the text. The fifth part of the text is NOT to be studied.
Teaching Unit B
Choose a book from the following list:
- Gavinelli D., Zanolin G., Geografia del turismo contemporaneo. Pratiche, narrazioni e luoghi, Carocci, Roma, 2019.
- Lazzeroni M., Morazzoni M. (a cura di), Interpretare la quarta rivoluzione industriale. La geografia in dialogo con le altre discipline, Carocci, Roma, 2020.
- Lizza G., Gli orizzonti della nuova geopolitica. Verso il 2050, UTET Università, Torino-Novara, 2021.
- Loyer B., Geopolitica. Metodi e concetti (ed. ita. a cura di Bettoni G.), UTET Università, Torino-Novara, 2020.
- Moretti E. La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of an oral interview. The aim is to verify the knowledge of the main themes of political and economic geography. Specifically, the students will be assessed on: their ability to interpret the spatial aspects of socio-economic and political phenomena; their communication skills of the main themes of the discipline; their critical interpretative skills towards the topics the course deals with.
M-GGR/02 - ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Gavinelli Dino
Professor(s)
Reception:
Office hours are held every Tuesday, on a weekly basis, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. On the 11-6-2024, office hours will take place at 2.30 pm.
Office hours will be held in presence in the office 1044 in Sesto San Giovanni or, for specific reasons, via skype. The skype address during reception hours is: dinogavinelli.