DGA016 Geographical Thought

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2020
Rozsah
0/0/0. 15 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Cíle předmětu
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).
Výstupy z učení
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.
Osnova
  • 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.
Literatura
  • 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
Výukové metody
Lectures and seminars. Seminars are organized as either class discussions (following readings) or presentation of group projects.
Metody hodnocení
Participation in seminars, presentation of the group project, a short essay, and the final written test.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2021, podzim 2021, jaro 2022, podzim 2022, jaro 2023, podzim 2023, jaro 2024, podzim 2024, jaro 2025.