The modern social geography brings together multiple orientations and research methods focused on the relationship between the spatial and the social dynamics.
The social geography wonders how society interacts with space, how society perceives the space and attaches to it symbolic values, and how society relate to it taking certain actions or making certain territorial organization choices.
This course provides an overview of key issues and fundamental problems for the interpretation and analysis of socio-spatial dynamics
The course aims to provide both the main theoretical references and foundations of social geography and to illustrate some case studies for a reading of social and economic phenomena on the territory. In particular, the course focuses on the relationship between society and space, the latter being understood as a social product. Students will acquire adequate knowledge and ability to effectively understand prospects and tools to analyze the space intended as a social product; also they will be able to apply their knowledge and understanding of issues related to the interrelations between territorial dynamics and social dynamics.
The course includes front lessons, in which slide and projected video will be used.
The use of aulaweb is foreseen where materials presented and discussed in lessons on the tools of intercultural geography will be available.
Experiences of privileged and / or experienced witnesses are provided during some lessons.
The lessons will present different conceptions of space (absolute space, relative space, space as a social product) that guide the research and their implications. It will be deepened the evolution of social geography studies in France, in Germany, in Anglo-Saxon countries and in Italy, and will examine the main research themes of the various schools. The course will address geo-social issues with specific reference to the environment, changes in the social structures, the city and the gentrification phenomena, socio-spatial inequalities. They will be further discussed the topics and issues related to: sustainable development, gender empowerment, migratory phenomena, with also through the instrument of so-called map cartography.
PROPEDEITY: It is necessary to have sustained the exam of Human Geography.
For attending students:
For non-attending students:
Critical reading of a text chosen from the following:
Ricevimento: Times and place of receipt Department Disfor TA10 room First half : WEDNESDAY ' 14.30-15.30 ; THURSDAY ' appointment II semester: WEDNESDAY ' 14.30-15.30 ; THURSDAY ' appointment For any question relating to the teaching you can still communicate with the teacher via email : varani@unige.it or by calling 010 20953605 ; or by calling 01020953604 . Further information To take the exams you must register on the portal students of the University of Genoa ( www.studenti.unige.it ) ; The course will begin in the second half . For additional information, students are asked to contact in time with the teacher to define bibliographic or alternative programs integrations .
MARINA MARENGO (President)
NICOLETTA VARANI (President)
ENRICO BERNARDINI
SIMONE DE ANDREIS
ANTONELLA PRIMI
First week of March 2018
SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY
For attending students: written exam (only for students who have attended 70% of the lessons) .The exam will be completed at the end of the lessons (more information will be provided by the teacher in the first lessons of the Course)
For Non-Attending Students: Oral Test.
The oral test provides for discussion, including through charts, charts and tables, proposed on aulaweb or present on the texts in the program, useful for the understanding of the territory as a central knot for the study of contact and interaction between different identities. And critical reading with a short written reworking of one of the suggested texts in the bibliography is also provided.
Exams are held in oral form, also on the basis of images, charts, tables, diagrams, thematic maps and case studies examined in lecture or present on the studied texts.The theoretical references of the discipline, the main research themes of the various geographical Schools and the case studies and the topics discussed during the lectures will be deepened.
All students are encouraged to periodically visit the page of this course on the portal of e-learning AulaWeb (reachable from the University website or at the following url: https://www.aulaweb.unige.it). All information and materials related to this course are exclusively published in this site.
