GG10004: Human Geography 2: Politics, Society, Development & Environment

The Geographical Imagination:

• Geography as a ‘way of thinking’ rather than as a discipline defined by ‘what is studied’

Key characteristics:

1. Mapping, patterns, spatialities

2. Connections, networks, flows,

3. Difference & inequalities

4. Meanings, experiences, representation

5. Scale

6. Human ‘natural’ environment

7. Processes explanation and power

Spatial patterns: I.e: responses to natural disasters

• Storm Bert: November 2004 - United Kingdom

• Cyclone Chido, December 2024 - Mayotte - French territory

  • Mayotte was a ‘part of France’ (political wise a territory owned by France) President Macron was heavily criticised and responded that if it wasn’t part of France the whole area would be in the ‘shitter’

In this module it will cover

• Social Geographies

• Political Geographies

  • Thinking about the key aspects of politics that are involved in Geopolitics

• Development Geographies

  • What? Where? How? Who decides? etc.

  • For example, Bangalore India’s development such as HSBC’ branch

  • UNICEF - Funded school project

• Environmental Geographies

  • Different scales: Construction of environmental problems

  • Aspirations of sustainable development despite of conflicting intention in the global worked

  • Environmental and global justice

    • COP 29

    • Simon Kofe - Foreign Affairs Minister: Tuvalu