POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY I

Academic year
2020/2021 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
GEOGRAFIA POLITICA ED ECONOMICA I
Course code
FT0099 (AF:334711 AR:175830)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-GGR/02
Period
1st Term
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course is inserted as a choice exam in the Bachelor's degree in History (FT5)
It integrates into the course of study by providing the spatial interpretative tools associated with the action of political and economic actors from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era
The expected results consist of:
- in the ability to learn the stages of geopolitical thought between the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries
- the ability to identify the subsequent global forces that have questioned their effectiveness.
A good knowledge of history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era
The course is structured in 4 points:

1) The formation of the Nation-State
2) Imperial geographies
3) The geopolitical thought between the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries
4) The denationalization processes
5) The transformations of the territory and the role of digital networks

1)P. Chiantera-Stutte, Il pensiero geopolitico. Spazio, potere e imperialismo tra Otto e Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2014-2018, pp. 47-196
2)E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere , Torino, Utet, 2020, pp. 113-275 e 325-339
3)Educational material (Moodle, ISA)

Examination based on a test of written questions/answers
Frontal lectures with use of video and photographic material
Italian
written
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 28/09/2020