Unit name | Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies |
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Unit code | GEOG30010 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Jackson |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
GEOG25110 Philosophy, Social Theory, and Geography AND GEOG20110 Political Economy 2 |
Co-requisites |
Available to year-three Geography and year- four Geography with Study Aboard/Continental Europe students only. |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This course will introduce students to the cultural and political economic geographies of colonialism, decolonialism, and post-colonialism. Blending an historical and contemporary approaches with thematic analyses of colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial discourses and practices, the course will investigate key areas of concern, including: enclosure, accumulation, development, capitalism, resource access, imperialism, colonialism, coloniality, empire, race, nationalism, conflict, resistance, decolonization, neo-imperialism, conservation, nature, culture, as well as representational and discursive techniques and strategies integral to how these discourses are shaped by colonialism, decolonialization, and postcolonialism. The module will be taught through lectures and seminars. The critical analysis of visual materials including maps, photographs, paintings, drawings, and films will accompany the expectations for the course.
The aims of this unit:
Enable critical examination of different kinds of visual and textual sources and discursive techniques which engage the topics of empire, neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, development, postcolonialism, violence, hegemony, globalization, identity, diasporas, representation, indigeneity, etc.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will have the ability to:
The following transferable skills are developed in this Unit:
Links between learning outcomes and methods of assessment
Teaching will consist primarily of a 2-hour lecture. Some discussion to take place within lecture (class size permitting). Weekly practicals will screen films relevant to course material.
(30%) 1500 word review paper (ILOs 1-5)
(70%) 3500 word individual research paper (ILOs 1-5)
Readings will be assigned for each week from pre-selected books and papers. Representative Readings for the unit are the following:
1. Ghandi, L. (1998) Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Columbia University Press.
2. Sharp, J. (2009) Geographies of Postcolonialism. Sage.
3. Gregory, D. (2004) The Colonial Present. Blackwell.
4. Mbembe, A. (2001) On the Postcolony. University of California Press.
5. Stewart-Harawira, M. (2005) The New Imperial Order: Indigenous Responses to Globalization. Zed Books.