Political and Economic Geography
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
The course aims to illustrate the phenomena and processes that govern the growing dialectic between the political-institutional and social frameworks of the nation-state and the supranational ones determined by the growing economic, political and social globalization. The first module of the course (lessons and related texts) offers the conceptual and methodological cornerstones of economic geography and illustrates the local and global causes and consequences of economic globalization. Particular attention will be paid to the relocation of businesses, to emerging economies, to the contradiction between market liberalization and protectionist pressures. Particular attention is paid to the economic geography of Italy. The second module will deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the main economies of the emerging countries, the causes of the delays of the weaker ones, the relationships of dependence, independence and supremacy with respect to the economies of the countries of the North of the World. Attention will therefore be paid to particular frontier territories where the tension between the national and supranational framework is more evident, with particular regard to market flows and the growing phenomenon of illegal migration, the movements of refugees and attempts to control the aforementioned phenomena. The lessons and texts are intended 1) to inspire students with the knowledge and understanding of the above phenomena; 2) the specific cases illustrated about economic globalization and its effects on the territorial transformations of the Italian economy intend to stimulate students' comprehension skills applied to specific geographical and social contexts; 3) the illustration of the scientific debate on the most controversial events intends to arouse the student's autonomy of judgment. The geographical and historical contextualization of the cases considered, the use of data and sources, the methodological questions and the theoretical framework are the general tools that will be adopted in the didactic framework in order to arouse in the students an autonomous and critical reading ability of the national and international realities addressed.
Expected learning outcomes
During the lessons and as an outcome of the exams, students acquire the knowledge and understanding of the global economic and social phenomena that influence the specific territory. They will also be able to recognize the ability of the individual place to incorporate, modify or resist global influences. On the application level, they acquire knowledge of the causes of strength and weakness of the various economies of the world and the economic and social opportunities and criticalities of their mutual relationship. They also acquire autonomy of judgment by analyzing the scientific debate around the most controversial issues (productive and financial globalization, international migration, climate change, global economic crisis, etc.). The teaching of the basic concepts and terms of the discipline also stimulate students' communication skills and, consequently, their ability to learn from written texts, papers and audiovisual material related to the discipline.
Lesson period: Second trimester
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 trimester
Course syllabus
Program information
Attending students:
For 9 credits: they are required to report on the topics of the course, to prepare 1 textbook to be chosen from those of Unit I. They will also prepare 1 text to be chosen from those of Unit II, + 1 text to be chosen from those of Unit III.For 6 credits: preparation of the manual of your choice, of the course notes, + 1 text of your choice from those of Unit III.
Non-attending students:
For 9 credits: they are required to prepare 1 manual chosen from those of Unit I. Furthermore they must report on 1 text chosen from those of Unit II, and 2 texts chosen from those of Unit III.For 6 credits: preparation of the manual of your choice, + 1 text of your choice from those of Unit II, plus 1 text of your choice from those of Unit III.For the texts of unit 3, students of the CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS OF NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES curriculum must refer to unit 3 published in the exam program for the curriculum EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Attending students:
For 9 credits: they are required to report on the topics of the course, to prepare 1 textbook to be chosen from those of Unit I. They will also prepare 1 text to be chosen from those of Unit II, + 1 text to be chosen from those of Unit III.For 6 credits: preparation of the manual of your choice, of the course notes, + 1 text of your choice from those of Unit III.
Non-attending students:
For 9 credits: they are required to prepare 1 manual chosen from those of Unit I. Furthermore they must report on 1 text chosen from those of Unit II, and 2 texts chosen from those of Unit III.For 6 credits: preparation of the manual of your choice, + 1 text of your choice from those of Unit II, plus 1 text of your choice from those of Unit III.For the texts of unit 3, students of the CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS OF NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES curriculum must refer to unit 3 published in the exam program for the curriculum EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
Lectures with the help of maps and satellite images, video documents and any expert seminar lessons
Teaching Resources
Teaching Unit I
Teaching material and bibliography:
- S. Conti, I territori dell'economia. Fondamenti di geografia economica, Torino, Utet, 2012.
- A. Greiner, G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Utet, Torino, 2019, terza edizione.
Teaching Unit II
Teaching material and bibliography:
- E. Bignante, F. Celata, A. Vanolo, Geografie dello sviluppo. Una prospettiva critica globale, Torino, Utet, 2014.
- D. Harvey, L'enigma del capitale e il prezzo della sua sopravvivenza, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011.
- C. Muscarà, G. Scaramellini, I. Talia (a cura di), Tante Italie Una Italia. Dinamiche territoriali e
identitarie. Volume IV - Nordovest da Triangolo a Megalopoli, F. Angeli, Milano 2011.
- C. Muscarà, G. Scaramellini, I. Talia (a cura di), Tante Italie Una Italia. Dinamiche territoriali e identitarie. Volume II - Mezzogiorno: la modernizzazione smarrita, F. Angeli, Milano 2011.
Teaching Unit III
Teaching material and bibliography:
- Società Geografica Italiana, XIII Rapporto. Per una geopolitica delle migrazioni. Nuove letture dell'altrove tra noi, SGI, Roma, 2018.
- C. Wihtol de Wenden, Le nuove migrazioni. Luoghi, uomini, politiche, Pàtron, Bologna, 2016.
- E. Pugliese, Quelli che se ne vanno. La nuova emigrazione italiana, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018.
- AA.VV., Viaggio tra gli italiani all'estero. Racconto di un paese altrove, numero monografico de "Il Mulino", a. 67 (2018), n. 500.
- M. Tirabassi, A. Del Prà, La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel 21 secolo, Accademia University, Torino 2014.
- I. Gjergji (a cura di), La nuova emigrazione italiana. Cause, mete e figure sociali, Ed. Ca Foscari, Venezia, 2015 (scaricabile da http://virgo.unive.it/ecf-workflow/upload_pdf/STS_1_DIGITALE.pdf).
- S. Rinauro, Il cammino della speranza. L'emigrazione clandestina degli italiani nel secondo dopoguerra, Einaudi, Torino 2009.
- P. Audenino e M. Tirabassi, Migrazioni italiane. Storia e storie dall'ancien régime a oggi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008.
- P. Corti, M. Sanfilippo, L'Italia e le migrazioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.
- S. Gallo, Senza attraversare le frontiere. Le migrazioni interne dall'Unità a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011.
- M. Colucci, S. Gallo (a cura di), Fare spazio. Rapporto 2016 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia, Donzelli, Roma, 2016.
- P. Audenino, La casa perduta. La memoria dei profughi nell'Europa del Novecento, Bologna, Carocci, 2015.
- M. Colucci, Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai giorni nostri, Carocci, Bologna, 2019.
- M. Ambrosini, Non passa lo straniero? Le politiche migratorie tra sovranità nazionale e diritti umani, Assisi, Cittadella Editrice, 2014.
- P. Borgna, Clandestinità e altri errori di destra e di sinistra, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011.
- M. Barbagli, Immigrazione e sicurezza in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Teaching material and bibliography:
- S. Conti, I territori dell'economia. Fondamenti di geografia economica, Torino, Utet, 2012.
- A. Greiner, G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Utet, Torino, 2019, terza edizione.
Teaching Unit II
Teaching material and bibliography:
- E. Bignante, F. Celata, A. Vanolo, Geografie dello sviluppo. Una prospettiva critica globale, Torino, Utet, 2014.
- D. Harvey, L'enigma del capitale e il prezzo della sua sopravvivenza, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011.
- C. Muscarà, G. Scaramellini, I. Talia (a cura di), Tante Italie Una Italia. Dinamiche territoriali e
identitarie. Volume IV - Nordovest da Triangolo a Megalopoli, F. Angeli, Milano 2011.
- C. Muscarà, G. Scaramellini, I. Talia (a cura di), Tante Italie Una Italia. Dinamiche territoriali e identitarie. Volume II - Mezzogiorno: la modernizzazione smarrita, F. Angeli, Milano 2011.
Teaching Unit III
Teaching material and bibliography:
- Società Geografica Italiana, XIII Rapporto. Per una geopolitica delle migrazioni. Nuove letture dell'altrove tra noi, SGI, Roma, 2018.
- C. Wihtol de Wenden, Le nuove migrazioni. Luoghi, uomini, politiche, Pàtron, Bologna, 2016.
- E. Pugliese, Quelli che se ne vanno. La nuova emigrazione italiana, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018.
- AA.VV., Viaggio tra gli italiani all'estero. Racconto di un paese altrove, numero monografico de "Il Mulino", a. 67 (2018), n. 500.
- M. Tirabassi, A. Del Prà, La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel 21 secolo, Accademia University, Torino 2014.
- I. Gjergji (a cura di), La nuova emigrazione italiana. Cause, mete e figure sociali, Ed. Ca Foscari, Venezia, 2015 (scaricabile da http://virgo.unive.it/ecf-workflow/upload_pdf/STS_1_DIGITALE.pdf).
- S. Rinauro, Il cammino della speranza. L'emigrazione clandestina degli italiani nel secondo dopoguerra, Einaudi, Torino 2009.
- P. Audenino e M. Tirabassi, Migrazioni italiane. Storia e storie dall'ancien régime a oggi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008.
- P. Corti, M. Sanfilippo, L'Italia e le migrazioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.
- S. Gallo, Senza attraversare le frontiere. Le migrazioni interne dall'Unità a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011.
- M. Colucci, S. Gallo (a cura di), Fare spazio. Rapporto 2016 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia, Donzelli, Roma, 2016.
- P. Audenino, La casa perduta. La memoria dei profughi nell'Europa del Novecento, Bologna, Carocci, 2015.
- M. Colucci, Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai giorni nostri, Carocci, Bologna, 2019.
- M. Ambrosini, Non passa lo straniero? Le politiche migratorie tra sovranità nazionale e diritti umani, Assisi, Cittadella Editrice, 2014.
- P. Borgna, Clandestinità e altri errori di destra e di sinistra, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011.
- M. Barbagli, Immigrazione e sicurezza in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will consist of a written test on the manual chosen from the 2 proposed in the first module of the exam program, in the oral examination of the other texts of the program (units 2 and 3) and in the oral examination of the lessons for students attending. The written test will be submitted to students for each exam session. The exam is however valid as an oral exam. Both the written test on the manual (six short-answer questions) and the oral part must be carried out in the same session. For program differences between those who take the exam for 9, for 6 and for 3 credits and for the difference in program between attending and non-attending students, consult the "Program information" section
Unità didattica 1
M-GGR/02 - ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unità didattica 2
M-GGR/02 - ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unità didattica 3
M-GGR/02 - ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
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