{"ModuleCode":"GE5212","ModuleTitle":"Cities and Global Connections","Department":"Geography","ModuleDescription":"This module explores globalisation and its impacts on urban identities, places and politics. Global processes connect cities and shape urbanisation and urban life. Yet, not all urban dwellers are affected the same way by these processes. Furthermore, cities and people respond to, and may even be actively involved in, the shaping of these global flows and processes. In this module, attention is paid to the webs of relations at different scales, from the global to the local, and even those at the micro scale, such as intimate relations, to consider their implications for the remaking of cities and urban social life.","ModuleCredit":"4","Types":["Module"],"Lecturers":["Esther Rootham"],"IVLE":[{"Announcements":null,"Forums":[],"Workbins":[],"Webcasts":[],"Gradebooks":[],"Polls":[],"Multimedia":[],"LessonPlan":[],"ID":"e55fa8dc-bc0b-47ae-948b-9ab43e73dd16","CourseLevel":"1","CourseCode":"GE5212","CourseName":"GLOBAL CITIES","CourseDepartment":"","CourseSemester":"Semester 2","CourseAcadYear":"2014/2015","CourseOpenDate":"/Date(1420041600000+0800)/","CourseOpenDate_js":"2015-01-01T00:00:00","CourseCloseDate":"/Date(1431187140000+0800)/","CourseCloseDate_js":"2015-05-09T23:59:00","CourseMC":"0","isActive":"N","Permission":"S","Creator":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Esther Rootham","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"15642656-05f0-464d-896f-0a126505356f","AccountType":null},"hasGradebookItems":true,"hasTimetableItems":true,"hasGroupsItems":false,"hasClassGroupsForSignUp":false,"hasGuestRosterItems":false,"hasClassRosterItems":true,"hasWeblinkItems":false,"hasLecturerItems":true,"hasDescriptionItems":true,"hasReadingItems":false,"hasAnnouncementItems":false,"hasProjectGroupItems":false,"hasProjectGroupsForSignUp":false,"hasConsultationItems":false,"hasConsultationSlotsForSignUp":false,"hasLessonPlanItems":false,"Badge":0,"BadgeAnnouncement":0,"WebLinks":[],"Lecturers":[{"ID":"847d2740-f29b-49cf-9fdc-4c189724d38e","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Esther Rootham","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"15642656-05f0-464d-896f-0a126505356f","AccountType":null},"Role":"Lecturer ","Order":1,"ConsultHrs":"I am available for individual consultation on Tuesday mornings from 9:30-11:00. Please feel free to drop-in to my office at AS3-02-02 at that time. If this does not work for you, please e-mail me to arrange a suitable time."}],"Descriptions":[{"ID":"1e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Learning Outcomes","Description":"Course Description
\nThis module explores globalisation and its impacts on urban identities, places and politics. Global processes (e.g. the movement of financial capital, policy mobilities, displacement, migration, climate change, etc.) connect cities and shape urbanisation and urban life. Yet, not all urban dwellers are affected the same way by these processes. Furthermore, cities and people respond to, and may even be actively involved in, the shaping of these global flows and processes. In this module, attention is paid to the webs of relations at different scales, from the global to the local, and even those at the micro-scale, such as intimate relations, to consider their implications for the remaking of cities and urban social life. In other words, how do wider interconnections shape the meanings attributed to place and the forms of political engagement that emerge within the city? What are the implications of cities’ constitutive connections for the construction of new identities and in the maintenance of social divisions such as gender, ‘race’, sexuality, religion, ability, class? In critically engaging with key literatures on globalisation and cities in Geography and cognate disciplines, the module will also examine the production of knowledge about the city.
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\nIn this year’s version of this module, emphasis will be placed on the economic, social and cultural processes leading to the increasing social and economic polarisation and the internal fragmentation evident in cities. There will also be the opportunity for students to determine some of the themes of the seminars based on their own research interests.
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