Migration and Mobilities

(7.5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Understanding how race, racialisation and racism work is fundamental to interpret the world we live in. This course is an introduction to theories and analyses of race, racialisation and racism in human geography. It will provide students with knowledge and skills to observe and analyse the complex relations between race and space and how racism impacts our lives and experiences. In addition to exploring theories of race, we will discuss the impacts of racism in various geographical contexts and across different spaces and scales. Through a focus on critical analysis of cultural texts, we will explore the role of representation in shaping cultural geographies of race and racialisation and in reproducing and/or contrasting racism. This module is grounded in an intersectional approach to race and its geographies. These will be analysed and discussed in relation to other geographies of identity and difference (geographies of gender, sexualities and queer geographies).