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This module introduces Level 4 undergraduate students to geographical scholarship that has sought to explain, understand and critically analyse the manifold relationships between space and society in different contexts. The module will familiarize students with innovative geographical research exploring issues such as, for example, environment and uneven development; culture, the global and the local; transnationalism and migration; gender, race, identity; politics, the state, and regions; empire, colonialism and postcolonialism; nature, materiality, and non-human agencies. In and through such domains of geographical research and theorization, students will be encouraged to grasp and analyse the ways that spatial and social processes are always entwined, and therefore what difference critical geographical analyses at a variety of spatial scales can make to understanding the politics of the social world as we commonly experience and know it. Besides the module’s conceptual emphasis on the entwining of space and society through a number of different registers, the module will focus on contemporary and historical events and case studies in order to emphasize to students the real world value of geographical scholarship.

Students will develop the following transferable careers skills on this module:ÌýCritical Thinking, Team Working, Communication: Writing and Verbal, Presentation Skills, Time Management, Cultural Awareness.