Political and Developmental Geography
0
2024-2025
01011313
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Lessons with student participation and theoretical discussion of the themes, complemented with the analysis of practical examples and the use of texts, maps and other materials, in addition to practical issues investigated and presented by students.
Learning Outcomes
This class will discuss global development asymmetries, the main players involved, as well as the main tensions and conflicts that are directly or indirectly linked to these issues. This class aims to help students develop skills and a capacity for critical analysis on multiple levels using national and international examples and to compare development issues and related policies.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1 - General Notions of Political Geography and their relationship to the issues of development.
2 - Theories of development: political and ideological dimension.
3 - Global Inequalities of development: indicators and cartography.
4 - Players and intervention strategies: international organizations, States and the third sector.
5 - The multi-territoriality of players and the asymmetrical power relations: the states compared to the network of formal and informal players.
6 - Dynamics of de-reterritorialization, conflicts and vulnerable territoriality: the processes of involuntary confinement; the case of refugees.
7 - The control of the territory and territoriality as a condition for development: territorial disputes at multiple levels.
8 - Territorial disputes over natural resources - the case of water. Brief notions of political ecology.
9 - Security as a condition of trust and development- the case of tourism.
Assessment Methods
Continuous Assessment
Frequency: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%
Bibliography
AGNEW, J. (2003). Geopolitics. Re-visioning world politics. London: Routledge
AGNEW, J. (2002); Making Political Geography:London: Arnold
FERNANDES, J. (2011). Geografia, territorialidades difusas e insegurança. Geopolítica (pp.33-65). Aveiro: ISCIA.
FERNANDES, J. (2011); Teorias das Relações Internacionais; Almedina; Coimbra.
HAESBAERT, R. (2004). O mito da desterritorialização. Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil
ROBBINS, P. (2012). Political ecology. A critical introduction. London: Routledge
SACHS, W. (2000). Dicionário do desenvolvimento.Petrópolis: Editora Vozes.
SEN, A. (2003). O desenvolvimento como liberdade. Lisboa: Gradiva.
UNHCR (2012). The state of the world's refugees. Oxford: University Press.