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Introduction to (post)modern geographies - MZ340P173
Title: Úvod do (post)moderních geografií
Czech title: Úvod do (post)moderních geografií
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2015 to 2015
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
the course is taught as cyclical
Guarantor: RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MZ340P172
Is incompatible with: MZ340P172
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Last update: RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D. (04.09.2014)
This course is suitable for everyone who wants to deepen his/her understanding of various post-positivist strains within geographical thought, especially to those who want to learn more about the ways enabling the study of contemporary diverse societies. The course is conceptualized to widen the students' understanding of most (post)modern currents, which influence the contemporary geographical thought. A successful student will be capable of leading an international discussion with at least basic lines of reasoning.
Literature - Czech
Last update: RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D. (04.09.2014)

Doporučená viz. náplň jednotlivých přednášek, povinnou si pak studenti a studentky vyberou sami v rámci přednášky.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D. (17.02.2015)

Požadavky ke splnění zkoušky jsou: 90% účast, písemný rozbor dvou vybraných vědeckých článků, ústní popř. písemná zkouška.

Syllabus -
Last update: RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D. (04.09.2014)

This course is to familiarize students with geographical approaches that influence contemporary debates in British, American, French, Spanish and other geographies. This course is apt for those students whom want to get better with their theoretical and reasoning skills. Course consists of a series of lectures that, combined with reading, are to introduce selected post-positivist approaches not separated from their theoretical and philosophical underpinnings. Main goal will be that students will know their way in a contemporary social-geographical literature and will access various new strands of thought that may facilitate their success in local or international geographic or related field of study.

The course is structured in 11 lectures that may be further broken down to 12-13.

1)    Subject and the crisis of positivist science (critique of subject rationality, generalization during the spatial science, inner and outer causes of positivist-geography, problems with objectivity and subjectivity of research)

-          KITCHIN, R. (2006): Positivistic Geographies and Spatial Science. In: S. Aitken, G. Valentine eds. Approaches to Human Geography. SAGE Publications, London, s. 20-29.

-          DANĚK, P. (2008): Vývoj moderního geografického myšlení. In: Toušek, V., Kunc, J., Vystoupil, J. a. kol (eds.): Ekonomická a sociální geografie, Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., Plzeň, s. 9-40.

 

2)    Structure or Agency? (never-ending question viewed from various perspectives - humanist, Marxist, structuration theory - what is structuralism, voluntarism and functionalism?)

-          CHOUINARD, V. (1997): Structure and agency: contested concepts in human geography. The Canadian Geographer, 41, č. 4, s. 363-377.

-          Murdoch, J. (2005). Post-structuralist geography: a guide to relational space. Sage.

 

3)    Introduction into feminist geographies (sex, gender, gender roles, patriarchy)

-          PANELLI, R. (2004): Social Geographies. SAGE Publications, London, 287 s.

-          McDOWELL, L., SHARP, J. P. (1997): Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings. Routledge, New York, 480 s.

-          ROSE, G. (1993): Feminism and Geography. Polity Press, Cambridge, 214 s.

4)    Feminist geographies and their contribution to the geography as a discipline (various feminist geographies, from radical to the mainstream, subject positionality, reflexive knowledge, situatedness)

-          DIXON, D. P., JONES, J. P. (2006): Feminist Geographies of Difference, Relation, and Construction. In: Aitken, S., Valentine, G. (eds.): Approaches to Human Geography, SAGE publications, London, s. 42-56.

-          DOMOSH, M., SEAGER, J. (2001): Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World. Guilford Press, New York, 216 s.

-          GREGORY, D., JOHNSTON, R., PRATT, G., WATTS, M. J., WHATMORE, S. (2009): The dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Pondicherry, 1052 s.

-          BLAŽEK, M., ROCHOVSKÁ, A. (2006): Feministické Geografie. Geografika, Bratislava, 188 s.

5)    Brief introduction into linguistics. Structuralism and thinking in a post-structural contexts, survival guide into related philosophy of science (Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude L. Strauss, L. Wittgenstein)

-          AUSTIN, L. J. (1962): How To Do Things With Words. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

-          DERRIDA, J. (1977): Signature event context. In J. Derrida Margins of philosophy. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, s. 307-330.

-          MURDOCH, J. (2005). Post-structuralist geography: a guide to relational space. Sage.

6)    Have we ever been modern? (From understanding the modern to understanding the post-modern), J.F. Lyotard

-          INGLEHART, R., WELZEN, C. (2005): Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 333 s.

-          LYOTARD, J-F. (1993): O Postmodernismu. Filosofický ústav AV ČR, Praha, 206 s.

-          HARVEY, D. (1989): The Condition of Postmodernity. Blackwell, Cambridge, 392 s.

-          PAVLÍNEK, P. (1993): Anglo-americká geografie ve dvacátém století. In: Sýkora, L. (ed.): Teoretické přístupy a vybrané problémy v současné geografii, Katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje Přírodovědecká fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Praha, s. 9-29.

7)    Introduction to postmodern geography, M. Foucault in geography (power, discourse, knowledge, dispositive, bio-politics, governmentality).

-          FOUCAULT, M. (1995): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York, Vintage Books.

-          CLARKE, D. (2006). Postmodern geographies and the ruins of modernity. In: S. Aitken, & G. Valentine (Eds.), Approaches to human geography. SAGE Publications, London, s. 107-122.

-          NAYAK, A., JEFFREY, A. (2011): Geographical Thought. Pearson, Harlow, 360 s.

-          CRAMPTON, J. a S. ELDEN, 2007.Space, Knowledge and Power - Foucault and Geography. Burlington: Ashgate. 377 s.

-          SOJA, E. W. (1989): Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. London: Verso. 300 s.

8)    Psychoanalytic approaches (Z. Freud, J. Lacan), introduction into deconstructive thinking (J. Derrida), (un)knowability of human subject, limits for human knowledge objectivity, subconscious.

-          Salih, S. (2002): Judith Butler. London: Routledge.

-          GREGORY et al. (2009): The dictionary of human geography. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 1072 s.

-          STEVENSON, R. L. (1895). Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Scribner.

-          SHELLEY’S, M. (1818). Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.

9)    Theory of performativity, post-modern critique of dualistic conception of Agency and Structure debate, contemporary (critical) social theory, attempts for dialectical revisions (A. Giddens, J. Butler), social constructivism (Luckmann, Berger), theory of institutionalization.

-          BUTLER, J. (1990): Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, New York, 172 s.

-          BUTLER, J. (1993): Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". Routledge, New York, 288 s.

-          BERGER, P. L., LUCKMANN, T. (1999): Sociální konstrukce reality. Praha: CDK.

-          GIDDENS, A. (1984): The constitution of society. Cambridge: Polity Press.

-          GOFFMAN, E. (2003): Stigma. Praha: SLON.

-          GOFFMAN, E. (1999): Všichni hrajeme divadlo. Praha: Studio Ypsilon.

10)  Queer theory, destabilized subject, axes of human difference

-          JAGOSE, A. (1996): Queer Theory an Introduction. New York University Press, New York, 153 s.

-          KNOPP, L. (2007): On the Relationship between Queer and Feminist Geographies. The Professional Geographer, 59, č. 1, s. 47-55.

-          LAURETIS, T. D. (1991): Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities. Differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 3, č. 2, s. iii-xviii.

11)  Introduction into intersectional analysis of human identities, problems with representation

-          BARRETO, M., ELLEMERS, N., BANAL, S. (2006): Working under cover: performance‐related self‐confidence among members of contextually devalued groups who try to pass. European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 36, No. 3: 337-352.

-          SEDGWICK, K. E. (1990): Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press.

-          THRIFT, N. (2007): Non-representational theory: Space, politics, affect. Routledge.

FERGUSON, S. J. (2013): Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Class. SAGE, Los Angeles, 776 s.

 
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