PdF:DGA016 Geographical Thought - Course Information
DGA016 Geographical Thought
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- Course objectives
- The main objectives of the course are the following:
introducing the main approaches to geography (and their onthology as well as epistemology);
identifying historical relationships among individual schools or approaches;
introducing philosophical underpinnings of individual approaches;
introducing students to the discussion about the nature of key concepts of geography (such as space, place, time, scale, environment);
acquainting students with the key intellectuals shaping the geographical thought;
At the end of the course the students should be able to distinguish between different approaches to geography (past and present). - Learning outcomes
- After completing the course the student is able to:
- understand and distinguish the theoretical approaches of contemporary geography;
- identify and discuss key "crises" in the development of modern geographical thinking;
- to form their own opinion on the differences and the relationship between physical and human geography;
- critically introduce a selected personality of modern geography. - Syllabus
- 1. Geographical schools, approaches, paradigms. Social construction of reality.
- 2. Beginnings of modern geography. Environmental and regional approach.
- 3. Post-war discussion and quantitative revolution.
- 4. Criticism of spatial science and post-pozitivist approaches.
- 5. Radical/Marxist geography.
- 6. Humanistic geography.
- 7. Feminist criticism.
- 8. Theory of structuration and time-geography.
- 9. Realisms in geography.
- 10. Cultural turn and postmodernism.
- 11. Post-strukturalism, post-colonialism.
- 12. Key concepts in geography: space, place, scale.
- 13. Key concepts in geography: environment, landscape.
- Literature
- CRESSWELL, Tim. Geographic thought : a critical introduction. First published. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 290 stran. ISBN 9781405169394. info
- Key thinkers on space and place. Edited by Phil Hubbard - Rob Kitchin. Second edition. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011, xv, 510. ISBN 9781849201018. info
- Geographic thought : a praxis perspective. Edited by George L. Henderson - Marvin Waterstone. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2009, xvi, 378. ISBN 9780415471701. info
- Approaches to human geography. Edited by Gill Valentine - Stuart C. Aitken. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2006, ix, 349. ISBN 0761942637. info
- Spaces of geographical thought : deconstructing human geography's binaries. Edited by Paul J. Cloke - R. J. Johnston. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2005, viii, 224. ISBN 0761947329. info
- Key concepts in geography. Edited by Sarah L. Holloway - Stephen P. Rice - Gill Valentine. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2003, xvii, 342. ISBN 0761973893. info
- The dictionary of human geography. Edited by R. J. Johnston. 4th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xvii, 958. ISBN 0631205616. info
- Introducing human geographies. Edited by Paul J. Cloke - Phil Crang - Mark Goodwin. 1st ed. London: Arnold, 1999, xv, 368. ISBN 034069193X. info
- PEET, Richard. Modern geographical thought. 1st pub. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, ix, 342 s. ISBN 1-55786-206-0. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and seminars. Seminars are organized as either class discussions (following readings) or presentation of group projects.
- Assessment methods
- Participation in seminars, presentation of the group project, a short essay, and the final written test.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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