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GEOG 2300: Social Geography

 

 

 

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September 7: Introduction

 

September 12: The evolution of social geography

 

September 14: Social and spatial categories

 

September 21: Issues of scale

 

September 26: Cartesian dualism and the body as a space

 

September 28: The body as a space continued

 

October 3: Body projects and bodies taking up space

 

October 12 and 17: Bodies in space: disability and age

 

October 24: Disembodied identities

 

October 26: The home: gender and the built environment

 

October 31: Meanings of home

 

November 2: Home experiences: care, work and violence

 

November 7: More on Home experiences

 

November 9: Homelessness

 

November 14: Community

 

November 16: Neighbourhood community (see previous week’s slides)

 

November 21: Community as a useful concept / imagined communities

 

November 23: Community politics

 

November 28: Institutions

 

November 30: School and school cultures

 

December 5: The workplace

 

December 13: Mid-term exam, Curtis LH A, 9-11am

 

HOLIDAY BREAK

 

January 9: The prison and the asylum

 

January 11: Screening of documentary for assignment 2

 

January 16: The street and its space

 

January 18: Streets of fear

 

January 23: Policing and surveillance

 

January 25: The end of public space

 

January 30: The heterogeneous city

 

February 1: Marginalized ‘others’ in the city

 

February 6: Gentrification

 

February 8: Sexual dissidents within the city

 

February 20: Landscapes of consumption

 

February 22: Nature in the city

 

March 1: The rural landscape and its meanings

 

March 6: ‘Others’ in the countryside

 

March 13: The countryside as playground

 

March 15: More on rural life

 

March 20: Nations

 

March 22: Citizenship

 

March 27: Diasporas and international migration

 

March 29: Globalization

 

April 3: Global citizenship / course review

 

That’s all folks!