Summer Courses in Geography

City and Urbanism in Political Geography

Introduction: Urban politics is one of the fields of study that has attracted the attention of political geographers since the '60s and since the mid-90s, the emergence of specialized approaches such as urban political geography and urban geopolitics has entered the field of political geography and geographers. They have provided expert opinions and views in this field. Siri in the thought of f...

Problem Based Learning within Traditional University Geography Courses: a Learning Experience

Laurillard (1993: 1) in the book ‘Rethinking University Teaching’ states that “University teachers must take the main responsibility for what and how their students learn”. At the undergraduate level, where the curriculum is fixed and where the students are expected to explore an already known field of knowledge, even the most democratic model of education is more didactic than negotiated. This...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

Lecture notes of basic courses presented at 1 st Topsøe Summer School on Superconductivity

Understanding the Epistemological Consequences of Governmentality Concept in Cultural Geography

Introduction: The concept of governmentality was first proposed by Michel Foucault in 1978; Includes the study of techniques, processes, and approaches in which governments control all aspects of citizens' lives. The formulation of this concept in the humanities and social sciences, including cultural geography, has epistemological consequences which have changed cultural geography's position a...