Fall 2024 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Feminist Geographies: Theories, Methods and Praxis (33909)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic SessionUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (1 of 1 seat filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty.prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- Description: What does it mean to do feminist and geographical research? How may we better understand, navigate, and challenge dominant power systems embedded within forms of knowledge production? What would it look like to cultivate a feminist geographical research praxis oriented towards liberation? This graduate seminar will explore these questions through close readings of key texts across the interrelated fields of feminist geography and anti-colonial, Black, Indigenous, queer and women of color feminisms. We will pay close attention to how scholars engage in research and creative work, from the onto-epistemologies and theoretical frameworks they mobilize, to the methodologies and methods they use, their modes of analysis and interpretation, their writing craft, and authorial choices, with consideration for the multiple relations and contexts shaping their practices. By taking this approach, this seminar aims to: 1) demystify academic research and writing processes by openly identifying their components and complexities; 2) generate an appreciation for the intellectual, creative, and activist contributions of Black, Indigenous, queer, and women of color feminist scholars and geographers and the lessons they offer for working towards a liberatory feminist geographical research praxis; and 3) encourage students to critically reflect on their positionality, where they know from, their scholarly motivations, aspirations, and political commitments, and how they may approach their research projects with insights gleaned from course material. Students will be introduced to a range of methods, from community-based research, scholar-activism, intersectional analyses, and different forms of anti-colonial feminist storytelling, but will also be given the opportunity to explore other methods that they find interesting.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33909/1249
Fall 2024 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- Advanced Dendrochronology (33910)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024UMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 1 seat filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty.prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- A methods-oriented seminar focused on review and implementation of advanced techniques for tree-ring data analysis, visualization, and interpretation. This course is ideal for students conducting original thesis research with dendrochronology. Students will gain experience with techniques for quality assurance and quality control of data, detrending, autoregressive modeling, robust mean value estimation, correlation and covariance analysis in temporal and spatial domains, principal component analysis, superposed epoch analysis, climate response analysis, climate reconstruction, and estimation of uncertainty. The course will involve reading, response papers, and use of open source software, with emphasis on effectiveness and outcomes related to graphics and data visualization. Student learning outcomes will include problem solving and critical thinking. Instructor consent required for enrollment.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33910/1249
Spring 2024 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Feminist Geographies: Theories, Methods and Praxis (67961)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 448
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67961/1243
Spring 2024 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (67962)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Mon 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (2 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- In the past decades, machine/deep learning has become one of the most successful techniques in studying data patterns thanks to the increasing power of modern computations. Geographers also endeavor to contribute by introducing techniques from GIS and spatiotemporal analysis to solve challenging issues facing human-environment systems. Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) is an emerging cross-discipline that integrates machine/deep learning techniques for geographical knowledge discovery. This course aims at outlining the latest trends, successes, challenges, and opportunities in GeoAI. During this course students will:(Prereq: undergrad math, linear algebra, stats and coding experience; GEOG 3531/5531 or equiv recommended)
- read selective papers regarding computational neural networks, deep learning, and GeoAI.
- share and discuss insights on theories, methods, and applications of GeoAI via seminars and informal chats.
- conduct a group project in the field of GeoAI.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67962/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2021
Spring 2023 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (67570)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Mon 03:00PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- In the past decades, machine/deep learning has become one of the most successful techniques in studying data patterns thanks to the increasing power of modern computations. Geographers also endeavor to contribute by introducing techniques from GIS and spatiotemporal analysis to solve challenging issues facing human-environment systems. Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) is an emerging cross-discipline that integrates machine/deep learning techniques for geographical knowledge discovery. This course aims at outlining the latest trends, successes, challenges, and opportunities in GeoAI. During this course students will:(Prereq: undergrad math, linear algebra, stats and coding experience; GEOG 3531/5531 or equiv recommended)
- read selective papers regarding computational neural networks, deep learning, and GeoAI.
- share and discuss insights on theories, methods, and applications of GeoAI via seminars and informal chats.
- conduct a group project in the field of GeoAI.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67570/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2021
Spring 2023 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- Clash of emancipations: intersection/universality (68234)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Wed 03:00PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (2 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68234/1233
Spring 2022 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (68330)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Mon 03:00PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- In the past decades, machine/deep learning has become one of the most successful techniques in studying data patterns thanks to the increasing power of modern computations. Geographers also endeavor to contribute by introducing techniques from GIS and spatiotemporal analysis to solve challenging issues facing human-environment systems. Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) is an emerging cross-discipline that integrates machine/deep learning techniques for geographical knowledge discovery. This course aims at outlining the latest trends, successes, challenges, and opportunities in GeoAI. During this course students will:(Prereq: undergrad math, linear algebra, stats and coding experience; GEOG 3531/5531 or equiv recommended)
- read selective papers regarding computational neural networks, deep learning, and GeoAI.
- share and discuss insights on theories, methods, and applications of GeoAI via seminars and informal chats.
- conduct a group project in the field of GeoAI.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68330/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2021
Fall 2021 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Political Statements and Theoretical Debates (34699)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 445
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34699/1219
Spring 2021 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Global Health Data Analysis (67251)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (5 of 5 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67251/1213
Spring 2021 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- Marx at the Margins (67682)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Wed 03:30PM - 06:00PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 7 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67682/1213
Fall 2020 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Env. research on Sea Islands: WEBE Gullah/Geechee (34148)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue 02:30PM - 05:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34148/1209
Fall 2020 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- Global Health Data Analysis (34478)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 30 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, West BankWest Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34478/1209
Spring 2020 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Geographies of urban governance (67481)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Wed 01:00PM - 03:30PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 60
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67481/1203
Spring 2020 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- North American climate variability and change (68300)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Fri 10:00AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 135
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68300/1203
Fall 2019 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Race, Gender and the City (35236)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Mon 03:00PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 260
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35236/1199
Spring 2019 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics: Geography -- Experimental Natures: Art, Imagination & Politics (67507)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon 02:00PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (12 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- Experimental Natures: Art, Imagination and Politics on a Damaged Planet
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67507/1193
Spring 2019 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics: Geography -- Proseminar in Feminist Geography (67518)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Wed 02:00PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67518/1193
Fall 2018 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Climate Change and Environmental Dynamics (35067)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Thu 09:30AM - 12:00PMUMTC, East BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (7 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35067/1189
Spring 2018 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Confronting Settler Colonial Univ: A Working Group (52133)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- ANTH 8980 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52133/1183
Spring 2018 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics in Geography -- Theorizing the Urban Experience: Then and Now (68762)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Wed 01:30PM - 04:30PMUMTC, East BankSocial Sciences Building 448
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
The formation of concepts and the construction of theories have always been vital aspects of how we grasp urban worlds. It is through such practices that we come to fathom who, what, where and why we are in these worlds. Theories provide cognitive maps for finding our way in a complex and changing environment. Experience leads us to construct, transform, and modify these cognitive maps continuously. This seminar offers a selective cut into urban geography scholarship, old and new, foreground three themes: production of space, marginality, and southern urbanism. While geographical political economy will form the seminar's center of gravity, our readings will include exemplars from other materialisms. Key monographs and writings in Geography and related fields that have been formative in theorizing the urban experience will be this seminar's raison d'être.
- Grading:
- Participants will post weekly one-page critical commentaries on readings, chair two class discussions, and write a 20-page course paper that demonstrates a capacity to leverage theoretical insights from the seminar to make an intellectually rigorous argument around an empirical or philosophical problem of their choosing (if desired, this paper can take the form of a research proposal).
- Class Format:
- Discussion and short lectures.
- Workload:
- Reading load will be moderate to heavy (~ 100 to 150 pages per week). Class will be discussion driven, with intermittent short lectures by the instructor to situate materials.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68762/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 December 2017
Fall 2017 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Decolonizing the University (36789)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- ANTH 8980 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankSocial Sciences Building 360
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/36789/1179
Spring 2017 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Provincializing Marx (53305)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Wed 01:30PM - 04:00PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 445
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
PROVINCIALIZING MARX
While Marx's corpus of writings remains formative and generative for left theory and praxis, the universality of its conceptualization of political economy, capital's deep structure, and capitalist dynamics has been questioned almost from its birth. For instance, an extraordinarily rich body of scholarship in the field of agrarian studies has long posed knotty questions about the 'nature' of capitalist development in at least three registers: ‘nature' as external world ('environment', 'ecology'), ‘nature' as internal world ('human nature', subjectivity) and ‘nature' as foundation or ontology (what 'is' the being of capital?). There is also a rich body of scholarship around the ‘social question'--the question of how to think the ‘rights' of marginal social groups: not just the proletariat, but landless laborers, lumpenproletariat, peasants, Dalits, blacks, and other minorities. These groups have at best a tenuous claim to the two sets of rights that constitute liberal democracies--the egotistical "rights of man" grounded in private property, and the "rights of citizen" they formally possess. And the marked differences in the tenuous relations of these various groups with the two sets of rights raises difficult questions about Marx's conceptions about the sociality of capital, or of resistance to it.
The agrarian question and the social question are symptomatic of fundamental puzzles about how we might theorize the dynamics of capitalist development, capital's articulations with and parasitic existence on other logics, the 'outsides' and 'limits' to capital, capital in the ‘peripheries' (as contrasted to the ‘core'), and the political forms (progressive and conservative) that emerge in the interplay with capital's solvent forces.
This seminar asks how tarrying with "the agrarian question" and with "the social question" puts Marx and Marxist political economy in 'crisis', and what this ‘crisis' demands from theory. After this crisis, how should we think about the geographies and temporalities -- indeed, the constitution -- of 'capital' (and its dialectical other, 'labor')?
The seminar will be co-taught by Professors Vinay Gidwani (Geography and Global Studies) and Ajay Skaria (History and Global Studies). You may enroll for it in either Geography (GEOG 8980) or History (HIST 5960/8960) with prior permission of the relevant instructor. Format will be a mix of lecture and discussion. Students must be prepared to engage closely with challenging texts, and think cooperatively and generously. While a reading list is yet to be finalized, texts are very likely to include long excerpts from several of Marx's or Marx & Engels' writings, as well as selections from Locke, Kant, Kautsky, Gramsci, Luxemburg, Ambedkar, Arendt, Fanon, Shanin, Wolpe, Laclau, Hall, Derrida, Spivak, Balibar, Castels, Federici, Moten, Hartman, Karatani, Ranciere, Chakrabarty, Tomba, and van der Linden.- Grading:
- Class participation and commentaries, and final research essay.
- Exam Format:
- N/A
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Workload:
- Reading intensive
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53305/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 November 2016
Fall 2016 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Beyond Life Non-Life:New Formations Power/Politics (34466)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Thu 02:00PM - 04:30PMUMTC, West Bank
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- Beyond Life Non-Life:New Formations Power/Politics
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34466/1169
Spring 2016 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Caste, Race, and Indigeneity (69848)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/01/2016Tue 02:00PM - 04:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 42505/02/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue 02:00PM - 04:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 135
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- Topic: Caste, Race, and Indigeneity
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69848/1163
Fall 2015 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Climate Extremes and Environmental Change (24355)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Mon 01:30PM - 04:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24355/1159
Fall 2015 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics in Geography -- Politics and Epistemology (26663)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Wed 02:00PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 20
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
What is knowledge for? What does it do? Who can make it? How can (and should) it be made? Who decides what should be known? What is the role of knowledge in bringing about emancipatory change?
Many are drawn to a life of scholarship by a sense that knowledge has the potential to contribute to or bring about change, yet the precise relationship between knowledge production projects, social change, and normative politics often remains underexplored in scholarly inquiry. This course will provide students with an opportunity to engage with some of the most influential and creative thinkers who have sought to dwell with, problematize, and theorize the relationship between politics and knowledge. In conversation with the the tradition of feminist epistemology, we will consider how asking and answering questions about difference, nature, and the economy in particular has been informed by and productive of the social world, and what that means for associated political possibilities of various ways of knowing. The course operates neither as a survey course, nor as a deep engagement with one specific tradition, but rather attempts to provide students with exposure to a range of critiques and practices of alternative epistemologies that they might further explore according to their interests to make a robust argument for the epistemological foundations of their own research approaches. The reading list (subject to minor changes) is made up of foundational texts as well as more recent experimental texts and includes selections from:
Cosmopolitics I by Isabelle Stengers
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval
Citizens, Experts and the Environment by Frank Fischer
Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority and Privilege by Naomi Scheman
Vibrant Matter: The political ecology of things by Jane Bennett
Realism and Social Science by Andrew Sayer
Ecological Thinking by Lorraine Code
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women by Donna Haraway
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it) by JK Gibson-Graham
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
Hot Spotter's Report by Shiloh Krupar
Muddying the Waters by Richa Nagar
The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26663/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 June 2015
Fall 2014 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography (26784)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Thu 02:00PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 125
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty.
- Class Notes:
- "The event of the Anthropocene"
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26784/1149
Fall 2014 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics in Geography (36012)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue 02:00PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 235
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty.
- Class Notes:
- Critical Infrastructures: State, Scale and Uncertainty in Everyday Life
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/36012/1149
Spring 2014 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Labor Geography & Political Economy (59357)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue 02:30PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59357/1143
Fall 2013 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Sexuality and Space (35505)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Thu 03:15PM - 05:45PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 335
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty.
- Class Notes:
- Geography of Sexuality and Race
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35505/1139
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