A seminar on historical geographical materialism
Seminar focus:
This seminar focuses on Marxist political economy and how it has been applied to an understanding of issues and problems in human geography. It is divided into two parts of approximately equal length. In the first part we learn something of historical materialism, its key categories and its conception of social development. This involves some reading of Marx, mainly from Capital Vol.1. In the second part we explore show how the power of these ideas can be extended through exploiting the fact that social processes occur in a world that is geographically differentiated and over the surface of which people enjoy various powers of mobility. In this section of the course we consider topics such as the geography of uneven development, the geopolitics of capitalism, including the politics of difference, the political economy of urbanization and the politics of nature.
Fourteen modules are used in this seminar and can be accessed below:
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