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POLI-D406

Géographie politique

academic year
2023-2024

Course teacher(s)

Gilles VAN HAMME (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Epistemology and critics of the geopolitics. Spatial patterns and political configurations, in a long-term perspective. The building of the Nation-State (with a particular attention paiend to the Belgian case) and of the World-System. Electoral Geography, in Europe and in Belgium. New perspectives in the present world.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

To show the historicity of the building of the territories and their organisation, in a materialist perspective, but including a strong emphasis on the importance and the inertia of the superstructures.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Ex-cathedra course

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

C. Vandermotten & J. Vandeburie, Territorialités et politique, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles.

Other information

Contacts

C. Vandermotten, cvdmotte@ulb.ac.be, 026505078

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Oral and written exam, including the presentation of a short personal essay.

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