SEM0169 - GLOBAL NETWORKS AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - 2022/2023

Objectives

Module 1: Global Networks (Chiara Certomà, 36 hours)

Topics covered in Module 1 of the Global Networks and Local Development course allow students to acquire advanced knowledge on national and international socio-political and geo-economic scenarios; to acquire a critical and transdisciplinary understanding of environmental, social, and political-economic challenges resulting from globalisation process and its spatial implications at the global level.

At the end of Module 1 students can:

  • critically describe the transformations taking place in the global socio-economic, political-cultural and technological system;
  • autonomously identify the interconnections between analysed transformations of global socio-political and economic systems;
  • discuss the policies and initiatives adopted to deal with contemporary challenges.
Topics Module 1:

1. The geo-economic and geo-political reading of socio-spatial phenomena

2. Geo-economic space: territories, regions, networks

3. Governance of globalization: scales, paradigms and institutions

4. Globalization of production systems

5. Environmental issues, conflicts and ecological transition in the global world

Texts Module 1:

ALL the text and the slides are COMPULSORY READING for the exam. There is no difference in the text list for students attending or not attending the lectures. The final list of readings will be provided at the beginning of the lectures.

The following text can be downloaded from moodle/ I seguenti tra i testi sono scaricabili da moodle:

·       W. Sachs et al., Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal, Nature Sustainability, 2019, vol 2, 805-814

·       S., Bouzarovski,Energy poverty in the European Union: landscapes of vulnerability, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, 2014;3(3), 276-289

·       D. Massey, A Global Sense Of Place, Marxism Today, June 1991, 24–29

·       J. Martinez-Alier (2020). A global environmental justice movement: mapping ecological distribution conflicts. Disjuntiva, 1(2), 81-126

The following text can be retrieved in the library (or in bookshops)/ I seguenti tra i testi possono essere consultati in biblioteca (o acquistati) 

·       Certomà, C. (2016) Postenvironmentalism: A Material Semiotic Perspective on Living Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, NY (only chapters 1, 2 and 3)

·       Herod, A. (2009) Geographies of Globalisation: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK (selected chapters)

·       Kloosterman, R. C.,  Mamadouh V., and Terhorst, P. (eds) (2018), Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization,  Edward Elgar (only cap. 16)

·       Massey, D., Jess, P. (1995), A place in the world? Places, cultures and globalization, Oxford, Oxford University Press (only cap.2 and cap 6)

·       Slides (provided at the end of the lectures)