| Module Identifier |
GGM1030 |
| Module Title |
THE STATE, GOVERNANCE AND TERRITORY |
| Academic Year |
2002/2003 |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr Martin R Jones |
| Semester |
Semester 1 |
| Other staff |
Professor Mark A Goodwin, Dr Rhys A Jones |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 11 x 1.5 hrs (as part of 3 hour sessions) |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 11 x 1.5 hrs (as part of 3 hour sessions) |
| Assessment |
Semester Assessment | Course Work: 1 long essay (max 4,000 words) | 50% |
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Semester Assessment | Course Work: 2 essays (max 2,000 words each - 20% each) | 40% |
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Semester Assessment | Presentation: | 10% |
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Supplementary Assessment | Students will have to resubmit any component of the above which they fail to complete to a satisfactory standard. | |
Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be able to
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demonstrate a scholarly appreciation of the transformations of the state and territory since the onset of the 'nation state'
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critically discuss and appraise a number of theoretical perspectives on state formation and state transformation
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relate these approaches to contemporary 'real world' events
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draw upon a wide range of social scientific literature through which to approach the above
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demonstrate competence in individual study, oral discussion, team-working, and written presentations.
Brief description
This core module will introduce students to the relations between states, systems of governance, and territory. It will explore the historical, social, economic and political construction of states and how they achieve and maintain their political and social power. This will be followed by a series of conceptual cuts into the changing form and function of the modern 'welfare state' and the changing political geographies of the state in an era of globalisation. The module will also consider the complex processes in and through which the contemporary nation state is being challenged at a number of levels and through a variety of spatial scales.
Content
Introduction
Course philosophy and approach
1. Globalisation in question
Section 1: Building States and Territory
2. The end-state of globalisation: towards a borderless world?
3. Beginning-state: stateless socieites and human territorialities
4. Sate and society: early formations of the European state
5. Modern states as 'power containers'
6. Postmodern and new medieval territorialities
Section 2 : Theorising State and Economic Restructuring
7. Regulation theory I : themes and issues
8. Regulation theory II : state theory and 'hollowing-out'
9. Regulation theory III : governance and the politics of scale
Section 3: Contesting the State
10. Globalisation from below: cultural politics and pluralism
11. Globalisation from above: European challenges
Reading Lists
Books
Taylor P and Flint C. (1999)
Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality.
Weis L. (1998)
The Myth of the Powerless State.
Amin A (ed). (1994)
Post-Fordism: A Reader.
Amin A and Thrift N (eds). (1994)
Globilisation, Institutions, and Regional Development in Europe.
Anderson J et al. (1995)
A Global World? Re-Ordering Political Space.
Cox K (ed). (1997)
Spaces of globalisation: Reasserting the power of the local.
Jessop B. (1990)
State Theory: Putting Capitalist States in their Place.
Mann. (1986)
Sources of Social Power.
Ohmae K. (1995)
The End of the Nation State.
Painter J. (1995)
Politics, Geography, and Political Geography.
Storper M. (1997)
The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy.