- Docente: Alessandra Bonazzi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-GGR/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geography and Territorial Processes (cod. 0971)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
During the Enlightenment, scientific travels aroused greater and
greater interest. It would be mistaken to take the travelling
naturalist' apologetic rethoric of science for science's sake at
face value; for geographical knowledge was geopolitical power.
During the decades around 1900 there was a close temporal
congruence between the emergence of new geography and the new
imperialism. Conrad's 1924 essay On Geography and Some
Explorers recognizes the symbiosi of geography and
empire by dividing the history of European exploration into three
geographical phases and we will explore geography when it was
triumphant. Recommended reading: S. Greenblatt, Marvelous
Possesion. The Wonder of the New World, Chicago, The University
of Chicago Press, 1991; S. Elden, E. mendieta, eds., reading
Kant's Geography, Albany, State University Press, 2011. A.
Godlewska, N. Smith, eds., Geography and Empire, Oxford,
Blackwell, 1994
Readings/Bibliography
P. Sloterdijk, Il mondo dentro il capitale, Roma, Meltemi,
2006;
H. Arendt, Le origini del totalitarismo, Torino, Einaudi,
2009.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination comprising of a series of questions that aim to ascertain student's understanding of the bibliography for home study.
Teaching tools
Slides
Office hours
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