Last Tuesday and Friday, I attended second lecture but this time with Dr Ed Brown. The lecture module called GLOBALIZATION : DEBATES AND ISSUES. The subject is ntroducing students to debates surrounding the concept of globalization and to show how this concept has been invoked in a variety of geographical scholarship on the nature of space, place and territory.Outline the contributions of geographers to the understanding of globalization in the context of wider debates about processes of globalization across the social sciences. The module will be divided into a number of blocks, each block will considera particular theme, or set of themes, concerning key debates and issues in globalization. Specific themes may include:(a) An introduction to key issues in globalzation;
(b) The importance of identity and difference in the construction and representation of geographical knowledges in relation to globalization;
(c) The place of politics and the political in the analysis of globalization;
(d) Geography and globalization;
(e) Imperialism, globalization and North-South relations.
Students will be able to show knowledge and understanding of:
(i) the contested definitions of globalization as process and epoch;
(ii) how the relational geographies of nation, region and locality are transforming under the auspices of globalization;
(iii) the changing importance of key concepts of space, place, and territory in a global era;
(iv) how connectivity and cuts, flows and fixities, speed and scale, borders and breaks, nodes and networks are producing new spatial orders at a global level;
(v) the challenges involved in undertaking geographical research and data collection to study contemporary globalization;
(vi) the distinctive contribution that geography can make to policy debates under conditions of contemporary globalization.
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