00463 - Political and Economic Geography (A-L)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Filippo Pistocchi
  • Credits: 9
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the students with the geographical instruments useful to understand the complexity of political and economic world dynamics, with specific regard to the globalization of economic activities, the emerging countries, the underdevelopment and the North-South divide, the impact of environmental problems, the strategies of sustainable development.

Course contents

2nd Semester, from 12.02.2018

Monday (5:15 - 6:45pm), Tuesday (1:45 - 3:15pm), Wednesday (5:15 - 6:45pm) at AULA II Fisica, via Filippo Re

 

This course of Political and Economic Geography is meant for students of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Asian Languages, Markets and Culture. With the analysis of cases of study and with reference to the main territorial models and geographical theories, students will be able to describe and understand the social and cultural dynamics that are specific of some world macro-regions. Present economic globalization, new economic areas, the imbalance between the North and the South, environmental problems, and sustainable policies are the main topics of this course.

The course will analyze the following "geographies":

  1. Introduction to Human, Political, and Economic Geography
  2. Resources, Wars, and contended Territories
  3. Urban Geography and World Cities
  4. Underdevelopment and Emerging Countries
  5. Tourism, culture and territorial promotion

All these parts will deal with:

  1. Themes of Human, Political and Economic Geography. The economic globalization; the world system; the environmental issues, the relationship between environment and economy, the sustainable development; world population; the agricultural spaces; the territorial organization of the industry; the tertiary activities; the urban development; geopolitical issues of economy and culture, language policies. Tourism as a driver for the sustainable development.
  2. The emerging countries. The economic problems of the Third World countries. The emerging countries and the new markets. The case study of China: economic reforms and international integration; social and environmental implications of development; the presence of China in Africa.

Readings/Bibliography

* Attending Students:

  1. Pistocchi F., Sierra Leone Scenari globali e percorsi locali: geografie del cambiamento, Bologna, BUP, 2017
  2. Lessons' notes
  3. Personal research on a specific topic OR one book among list "3" of the program for non-attending students

* Foreign Exchange Students:

  1. Lessons' notes
  2. Gamberoni E., Pistocchi F., Africa occidentale. Ritratto di un'Africa che cambia, Bologna, Pàtron, 2013 (NO chapter 5) OR three of the essays below
  • Gambhir Helene, Isis’s Global Strategy: a Wargame, Institute for the Study of War, Report 28, June 2015 (pdf online)
  • El Hedi Arouri M., Youssef A. B., Nguyen-Viet C., Soucat A., Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa, Archives-Ouvertes, 2014 (pdf online).
  • Wolff S., Migration and Refugee Governance in the Mediterranean: Europe and International Organisations at a Crossroads, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Working Paper 15/42, 2015 (pdf online)
  • Sassen S., Globalization or Denationalization?, Review of International Political Economy 10:1, Routledge, 2003 (pdf online)
  • Csapó J., The Role and Importance of Cultural Tourismin Modern Tourism Industry, Strategies for Tourism Industry – Micro and Macro Perspectives, 2012

* Non Attending Students:

  1. Talia I., Amato V., Scenari e mutamenti geopolitici. Competizione ed egemonia nei grandi spazi, Bologna, Patron, 2015 [Parte 1 chapters 2 e 3; a choise of 5 on 7 chapters of the other Parts 2, 3, 4)
  2. Gamberoni E., Pistocchi F., Africa occidentale. Ritratto di un'Africa che cambia, Bologna, Pàtron, 2013 (no: case studies 1 and 2, par. 5.2 and 5.3)
  3. One book among all the following
Geopolitics and conflict
  • Maggioni M., Magri P., Il marketing del terrore. Twitter e jihad: la comunicazione dell'ISIS, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2016

  • Kaldor M., Le nuove guerre. La violenza organizzata nell'età globale, Roma, Carocci, 1999

  • LIMES - Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, Roma, Gruppo editoriale L'Espresso (http://temi.repubblica.it/limes/category/volumi ): choose a monography according to personal interest (inform professor and ask him whether the choise is coherent or not).

  • Molinari M., Il Califfato del terrore. Perché lo Stato islamico minaccia l’Occidente, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015

  • Napoleoni L., ISIS. Lo stato del terrore, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014

  • Quirico D., Il grande Califfato, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 2015

Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

  • Brighi C., Panozzo I., Sala M., Safari cinese: petrolio, risorse, mercati. La Cina conquista l'Africa, Milano, O Barra O, 2007

  • Ferrari A., Africa gialla. L'invasione economica cinese nel continente africano, Torino, UTET, 2008

  • Goldstein A., BRIC. Brasile, Russia, India, Cina alla guida dell'economia globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011

  • Calabò A., Calabrò C., Bandeirantes. Il Brasile alla conquista dell'economia globale, Bari, Laterza, 2011

  • Goldstein A., Trebeschi G., L'economia del Brasile, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012

  • Pietrobelli C., Pugliese E., L'economia del Brasile. Dal caffè al bioetanolo: modernità e contraddizioni di un gigante, Roma, Carocci, 2007

Africa: underdevelopment, exploitation and sustainability

  • Biondillo G., L'Africa non esiste, Parma, Guanda, 2014

  • Bonaglia F., Wegner L., Africa. Un continente in movimento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014

  • Carrisi G., Africa. Tutto quello che dovresti sapere sull'Africa e che nessuno ti ha mai raccontato, Roma, Newton Compton Editori, 2009

  • Ki-Zerbo J., Punti fermi sull'Africa, Bologna, EMI, 2011

  • Masto R., Buongiorno Africa. Tra capitali cinesi e nuova società civile, Milano, Mondadori, 2011
  • Primi A., Varani A., La condizione della donna in Africa sub-sahariana, Padova, Libreria universitaria, 2011

  • Pellizzoli R., Rossetti G. (a cura di), Donne, terre e mercati. Ripensare lo sviluppo rurale in Africa sub-sahariana, Bologna, CLUEB, 2013

  • Visconti C., Africa e diritti umani. Dalle carte costituzionali al sistema africano di protezione dei diritti umani, Padova, Libreria universitaria, 2012

Tourism, travel literature and marketing of tourism

  • Aime M., Papotti D., L'altro e l'altrove. Antropologia, geografia e turismo, Torino, Einaudi, 2012

  • Maraini D., La seduzione dell'altrove, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010

  • Nicosia E., Cineturismo e territorio. Un percorso attraverso i luoghi cinematografici, Bologna, Pàtron, 2012

  • Ramazzotti S., Vado verso il Capo. 13.000km attraverso l'Africa, Milano, Feltrinelli, 8^edizione, 2013
  • Tabucchi A., Viaggi e altri viaggi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2010

Cities, urban policies and regionalization

  • Cannizzaro S., Corinto G. L., Porto C. M., Il Mediterraneo. Dalla frattura regionale al processo d'integrazione, Bologna, Pàtron, 2009

  • Governa F., Memoli M. (a cura di), Geografie dell'urbano. Spazi, politiche, pratiche della città, Roma, Carocci, 2013

  • Sassen S., Le città nell'economia globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, terza ed., 2010 (chapters 1, 2, 3. One among chapters. 4, 5, 6, 7)

Teaching methods

Oral lessons, possibly integrated by seminaries held by geographers or specialists.

An extra laboratory on specific study-case of Political and Economic Geography could be activated if requested.

Assessment methods

The examination consists in an oral test.

Teaching tools

Lessons will be supported by PowerPoint presentations and the use of geographic and thematic maps. The presentations will be available at the web page: http://campus.cib.unibo.it [http://campus.cib.unibo.it/] at the end of each lesson.

Office hours

See the website of Filippo Pistocchi