Module: GEO6003-20 Identities and Inequalities

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Dr Heather Winlow

Module Tutor Contact Details: H.Winlow@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

In this module you will explore the construction and representation of social groups, and the places these groups inhabit, in both historical and contemporary settings. A key focus will be on the construction and representation of race and gender. The regulation of space, culture and social groups is studied through consideration of firstly, the power of representation, e.g. photographic, cartographic, literary forms and secondly, on the ground practises, e.g. legislation and control of population and territory. A range of case-study examples are considered from the colonisation and settlement of North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to questioning whether slavery really has been abolished.

2. Outline syllabus:

The curriculum will be drawn from topics, which may include:

Geographical Imagination: Construction of overseas people and places

Cartography and power

Imagining and Mapping Empire

Defining colonialism, imperialism and postcolonialism

Mapping race and ethnicity: past and present

Links between race and gender and management of colonies

Role of women in the colonies

Slavery Past and Present

Representing ‘Natural’ Landscapes: e.g. ‘Wilderness’ ‘Tropics’

Exclusion of native groups from landscape

Postcolonial critiques of place and identity

Influence of colonial pasts on modern global cities

Contemporary citizenship education in the UK

3. Teaching and learning activities:

Teaching will be done through lectures and seminars.  Preparatory and follow-up reading will be indicated.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description:  Critical Analysis (Visual Methodology) (2,000 words)

• % Weighting: 40

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Negotiated Research Paper (3,000 words)

• % Weighting: 60