Despite tendencies toward flatness and homogeneity imagined in some public discourse about globalization, the contemporary ‘global’ is produced at least as much by borders and checkpoints as it is by mobilities and connections. Colonial projects, state borders, capitalist imperatives, and national imaginaries produce an interconnected but also deeply uneven world. This course approaches these processes as social-spatial orderings that organize our experiences of the world in both material and imagined ways. It highlights the unequal access to resources and differentiated exposure to violence and precarity implicit in prevailing orderings, and it explores the widely diverging trajectories and prospects that such orderings produce, depending on who and where one is.
The course seeks to open up the contingency of contemporary global orders and to inquire into how alternatives are being imagined and enacted. It does this in part through leveraging the insights that can come from approaching the ‘global’ from a particular place through lectures from researchers working from a range of geographical locations and disciplinary perspectives, including education, human geography, and sociology, and it invites students to consider the role of research and scholarship in developing alternative imaginaries and practices.
Programme
19 April 14-16 Pinni A2100 Paavo Koli -Sali: Opening seminar with introduction to key concepts
20 April 14-16 Pinni A2100 Paavo Koli -Sali: Lecture “TBA” by NN
21 April 14-16 Pinni B1097: Lecture “TBA” by NN
24 April 14-16 Pinni A2100 Paavo Koli -Sali: Lecture by Nelli Piattoeva and Zsuzsa Millei
25 April 14-16 Pinni A2100 Paavo Koli -Sali: Lecture by Angel Iglesias Ortiz
26 April 14-16 Pinni A2100 Paavo Koli -Sali: EDU lecture by NN
27 April 14-16 Pinni A2100 Paavo Koli -Sali: Final seminar as a panel discussion on imagining otherwise
Students enrolled at Tampere University may attend the lecture series as a course. The 5 ECTS course is organized in collaboration by MAB, EDU and SOC faculties and will be offered entirely in English. Course registration is open until 31.3.2023 23.59 via SISU: HAL.YPAT.341/ YKT.SOO.304/KAS.TELM.300
In addition to attending lectures along with degree and exchange students, postgraduate and doctoral candidates will separately attend workshops for extra credit.
For more details please visit the course Moodle site (to be updated).
Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG)
Tampere Research Network for Global & Transnational Research (TRANSIT)