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Unit of Study CLST2005 - Space, Place and Travel (2021)

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Introduces students to narratives of identity and location and their relation to ideas about space, place and memory in the context of cultural geography. Consideration will be given to how the coordinates of identity and belonging are mapped out across space and place. By undertaking a localized application of this imaginative and theoretical work with field trips, students will address their own landscape of belonging and their sense of place.

Unit content

Module 1: Theories of space

Module 2: Experiencing psychic, social and physical boundaries

Module 3: Imagining geographies: the metropolis and the rest (frontier, sprawl and suburbia)

Module 4: Spaces and identities: gender and sexuality

Module 5: Race and religion in a geographical context

Module 6: Places on the margin, travel and tourism

 

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

understand sociocultural theories of space and place from both Global North and Global South perspectives

understand the significance of acknowledging people's multiple and intersectional experiences of space, place and travel

identify and describe the changing significance of people’s social locations and diverse identities in accounts of space, place and navigation

demonstrate a critical awareness of belonging and displacement in constructions and interpretations of urban/rural spaces in the context of white colonial discourses of modernity

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