Dr Laura Antona

This course is compulsory on the BA in Geography. This course is available on the BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Sustainable Development, BSc in Environment and Sustainable Development with Economics, BSc in Geography with Economics, Erasmus Reciprocal Programme of Study and Exchange Programme for Students from University of California, Berkeley. This course is freely available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. It does not require permission. This course is freely available to General Course students. It does not require permission.

This course is capped. Places will be assigned on a first come first served basis

GY100 and GY140 would be advantageous

This course builds on the conceptual foundations of GY100 and introduces students to some of key traditions in social thought that have shaped contemporary human geography. Through a series of thematic blocks, the course explores how key social theorists and their ideas both inform and transform geographical thinking, and how these ideas can be used to analyse social and spatial relations.

15 hours of seminars and 9 hours of workshops in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

Ahmed, S. (2006) Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

Bhambra, G.K. and Holmwood, J. (eds.) (2021) Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press

Gilmartin, M., Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Roberts, M.  (2024) Key Thinkers on Space and Place. (3rd ed.). London: Sage.

Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., Bartley, B. and Fuller, D. (2002) Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. London: Continuum

McCann, C. and Kim, S.K. (eds.) (2013) Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.

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