The course aims to introduce students to political and economic geography and to offer the basic tools to understand the organization of societies and their spaces in particular: evolution of geographical thought and keys to understand the current world system.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
"Geografia dell'economia mondiale",
Torino, UTET
(Fourth edition)
Programme
The course will address the evolution of the world economy geographic scenario in recent decades, as well as the evolution of the conceptual tools needed to understand the radical changes of economic and political nature materialized in this same period. With this in mind, we are going to discuss: the globalization and its territorial effects (from the breakup of the postwar global order, to the emergence of the Global South); the geography of resources (agricultural, mining, energetic); the industrial sectors in the third millennium; the centrality of urban spaces in the contemporary economy; the geography of transport and tourism and so on. There will be lectures and eventual workshops.Core Documentation
G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano, A. Vanolo, 2010,"Geografia dell'economia mondiale",
Torino, UTET
(Fourth edition)
Reference Bibliography
No.Type of delivery of the course
The lessons are frontal.Attendance
Attendance is not required.Type of evaluation
It's a written test. teacher profile teaching materials
"Geografia dell'economia mondiale",
Torino, UTET
(Fourth edition)
Programme
The course will address the evolution of the world economy geographic scenario in recent decades, as well as the evolution of the conceptual tools needed to understand the radical changes of economic and political nature materialized in this same period. With this in mind, we are going to discuss: the globalization and its territorial effects (from the breakup of the postwar global order, to the emergence of the Global South); the geography of resources (agricultural, mining, energetic); the industrial sectors in the third millennium; the centrality of urban spaces in the contemporary economy; the geography of transport and tourism and so on. There will be lectures and eventual workshops.Core Documentation
G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano, A. Vanolo, 2010,"Geografia dell'economia mondiale",
Torino, UTET
(Fourth edition)
Reference Bibliography
No.Type of delivery of the course
The lessons are frontal.Attendance
Attendance is not required.Type of evaluation
It's a written test. teacher profile teaching materials
"Geografia dell'economia mondiale",
Torino, UTET
(Fourth edition)
Programme
The course will address the evolution of the world economy geographic scenario in recent decades, as well as the evolution of the conceptual tools needed to understand the radical changes of economic and political nature materialized in this same period. With this in mind, we are going to discuss: the globalization and its territorial effects (from the breakup of the postwar global order, to the emergence of the Global South); the geography of resources (agricultural, mining, energetic); the industrial sectors in the third millennium; the centrality of urban spaces in the contemporary economy; the geography of transport and tourism and so on. There will be lectures and eventual workshops.Core Documentation
G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano, A. Vanolo, 2010,"Geografia dell'economia mondiale",
Torino, UTET
(Fourth edition)
Reference Bibliography
No.Type of delivery of the course
The lessons are frontal.Attendance
Attendance is not required.Type of evaluation
It's a written test.