GEOG309 (HAM)
Gender, Place and Culture
20 points

Lecturers: Professor Robyn Longhurst and Dr Colin McLeay
Email: robynl@waikato.ac.nz and c.mcleay@waikato.ac.nz

Paper description

This paper provides a forum for debate on ‘difference’ in relation to gender, place and culture. To understand ‘difference’ we will draw on postmodernist, poststructuralist, anti-racist, postcolonial, feminist, queer, Marxist and socialist perspectives. The aim is to examine various ways of challenging, dismantling, and transforming systems, and structures of exploitation, oppression and imperialism.

Paper objectives

• to focus on geographers’ concerns with difference, the transgression of boundaries and the intersections between gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, class and other social divisions;
• to open up a space to discuss feminism, masculinity and cultural politics within the discipline of geography;
• to develop skills in critical reading and thinking;
• to explore likely future developments in feminist and cultural geography.

Prerequisites

GEOG209 or GEOG210 and 20 further points at level 2 Geography.

Assessment

This paper is internally assessed. Assessment will comprise the following:

                        1.      essay                                              33.3%
                        2.      essay                                              33.3%
                        3.      short answer test                              33.3%

Required book

Panelli, Ruth (2004) Social Geographies: From Difference to Action, Sage: London.

Highly recommended book

Valentine, Gill (2001) Social Geographies: Space and Society, Prentice Hall: Harlow.  

Timetable and Organisation:

Refer to the Online Timetable.