Universität Wien
Course Exam

290032 VO Introduction into Political Geography (2009W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

Thursday 21.10.2010

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Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Knowledge of most important theories and concepts of Political Geography especially those of postmodernism as well as actual research fields shown along practical examples.
What is the meaning of Political Geography? A first introduction. Right and wrong ways in dealing with Political Geography versus Geopolitics 1895-2005, the discipline history. Political geographical analysis based on critical, neo-marxist and liberal onsets. Geographical conflict research/Radical Geography. Critical Geography. Real human space and constructed imaginations. Deconstructiion of the archeology of power symbols.

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