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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Teresa Pullano (teresa.pullano@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This seminar deals with Europe and globalization as essentially processes of spatial and territorial restructuring. In the 1990s and during the years 2000s, both globalization critics and pro-globalization scholars forecasted the demise of the nation-state due to the development of borderless flows of capital and people (Hardt and Negri, 2001; Ohmae, 1995). The world seemed to be moving towards a deterritorialized global polity, where space and time were compressed and did not matter as much as at the time of triumphing nation-states. With the extension of processes of economic, social and political globalization, instead, it became clear that globalization entailed the restructuring, and not the demise, of the nation-state, of borders and of the spatial and territorial organization of political and social life (Brenner, 2004; Mezzadra and Neilson, 2013). European integration, with the creation of a space of free movement and circulation for its citizens and for goods and services, was at first read as an embryo of a post-national, deterritorialized political community. When the economic crisis hit North America and global markets first, and then, in 2010, the Eurozone, it became clear that globalization does not only produce a homogenous world space where borders can be overcome more easily, but that it also creates new forms of spatial inequalities, redefining the center and the periphery within continents and across the world. The elites’ responses to the crisis, with austerity measures, contributed to cutting the Eurozone space across North/South lines of division that reinforce boundaries, but also reshape spatial and social inequality in new ways across states and across Europe. In this seminar, we explore how globalization and European integration are better understood as the restructuring, in new, uneven ways, of space and territory across Europe and across world relations. |
| Lernziele | Students: - Learn about contemporary geographical and urban theories concerning globalization and the production of space; - Acquire theoretical and empirical tools to study processes of regional and territorial restructuring; - Study the social and geographical implications of the 2010 economic crisis for the political restructuring of Europe as an uneven space; - Understand the correlation between regional and spatial policies and macro-phenomena such as European integration and globalization; - Study the correlation between world socio-economic phenomena and European integration; - Understand how markets and states produce space and territories in contemporary politics; |
| Literatur | - Bialasiewicz (Luiza) eds., Europe in the world : EU geopolitics and the making of European space, Burlington, Ashgate, 2011. - Brandenborg (Jensen) and Richardson (Tim), Making European Space: Mobility, Pwer and Territorial Identities, London, Routledge, 2004. - Brenner (Neil), New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. - Brenner (Neil), Jessop (Bob) et a., ed., State/Space: A Reader, Malden, USA, Wiley, 2003. - Brenner (Neil) ed., Implosions/Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, Berlin, Jovis, 2013. - Harvey (David), Spaces of Global Capitalism: towards a theory of uneven geographical development, London, Verso, 2006. - Lefebvre (Henri), The Production of Space, Malden, Usa, Blackwell, 1991. - Mezzadra (Sandro)and Nielson (Brett), Border as Method, or the Multiplication of Labor, Durham (N.C.), Duke University Press, 2013. - Smith (Neil), Uneven Development: nature, capital and the production of space, Oxford, Blackwell, 1990. |
| Weblink | Europainstitut |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Doktorat Afrika-Studien: Empfehlungen (Promotionsfach: Afrika-Studien) Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Modul Fachkompetenz Globaler Wandel (Master Studienfach: Geographie) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studiengang: Osteuropa-Studien) Modul Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studiengang: Osteuropa-Studien (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studienfach: Osteuropäische Kulturen) Modul Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studienfach: Osteuropäische Kulturen (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Internationales Zusatzwissen (Masterstudium: European Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.02.2015)) Modul Raum/Bewegung (Bachelor Studienfach: Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Vertiefung Globalisierung, Kultur und internationale Entwicklung (Master Studienfach: Geographie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2015)) Modul: Regionaler Fokus M.A. (Master Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Staatlichkeit, Entwicklung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Participants are required to submit a written report on the seminar topic, present a talk on the topic, and participate actively in the seminar discussions. These three aspects will be individually graded on a scale of 1.0-6.0 and the overall grade oft he seminar will be determined as a weighted average of the three components. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,5 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Universität Basel |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Europainstitut |