Module Identifier GG10110  
Module Title PEOPLE, PLACE AND NATION: A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE  
Academic Year 2004/2005  
Co-ordinator Professor Timothy J Cresswell  
Semester Semester 2  
Other staff Dr Deborah P Dixon, Dr Rhys A Jones  
Pre-Requisite  
Course delivery Lecture   20 Hours 1 hr lectures  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 Hours Written exam. Two Sections- answer one question from three in each section100%
Supplementary Assessment2 Hours Written exam. Two Sections- answer one question from three in each section100%

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:


Aims

To provide an introduction to the way in which geographers and other social scientists have conceptualized and developed an understanding of the importance of place at different scales of analysis.

Content

A concern with understanding the importance of place at national, local and personal levels is central to the agenda of contemporary human geography. The module develops this theme by addressing the following topics:

PLACE AND NATION

1. Place, nationalism and nationhood
2. National identity in Britain
3. Nation and identity in Eastern Europe
4. Nation and identity in the New World

LOCALITY AND COMMUNITY

5. People, migration, globalization and place
6. The conceptualization of place
7. The particularity of place: identity and biography
8. Place and Community: planning and politics   

GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION

9. Geographies of disability: physical and social problems
10. Geographies of Exclusion

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
Cresswell, T.J. (2004) Place: a short introduction 1st. Oxford, Blackwell 1-4051-0672-7
Holloway, L & Hubbard, P. (2001) People and Place: The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life Prentice Hall, Pearson Educational Ltd.
** Recommended Background
Massey, D & Jess P. (eds) (1995) A Place in the World? Places, Cultures and Globalization Oxford
McDowell, L. (1997) Undoing Place? A Geographical Reader. Arnold
Cloke, P., Crang, P. & Goodwin, M. (eds) (1999) Introducing Human Geographies 1. Arnold 034069193X
Storey, D (2001) Territory, The Claiming of Space Prentice Hall, Pearson Educational Ltd.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 4