ZD355 Countryside, periphery, borderland

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/4. 12 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Antonín Věžník, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D.
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.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course extends and deepens the current knowledge of the study of disadvantaged areas, both in general and specific terms at different hierarchical levels. In addition to basic research, emphasis is placed on applications in regional and local development.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students are oriented in theoretical and applied approaches in dealing with disadvantaged areas. Using relevant indicators and data, they are able to analyse in detail the development and current situation, as well as to outline the perspective or strategy of the approach of different levels of the exclusion sphere.
Syllabus
The course links theoretical knowledge with practice in real administrative and/or functional territorial units, from the European (EU), national (Czech Republic), interregional (regions), microregional (SO ORP, SO POÚ) to local (municipalities, cities) level. It is thematically divided into: territorial differentiation, rural areas, peripheries, border areas; all aspects of cohesion - economic, social, territorial - are applied.
Literature
    required literature
  • FEDERICI, Silvia. Beyond the periphery of the skin : rethinking, remaking and reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. Oakland: PM, 2020, viii, 145. ISBN 9781771134873. info
  • A companion to border studies. Edited by Thomas M. Wilson - Hastings Donnan. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2012, xvi, 620 p. ISBN 9781405198936. info
  • Rural geography processes, responses and experiences in rural restructuring. Edited by Michael Woods. London: SAGE, 2005, 1 online. ISBN 9781446216415. URL info
    recommended literature
  • Borderology : cross-disciplinary insights from the border zone : along the Green Belt. Edited by Jan Selmer Methi. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, 1 online. ISBN 9783319993928. URL info
  • VAISHAR, Antonín, Jana ZAPLETALOVÁ and Petr DVOŘÁK. Border administrative units in the Czech Republic. Moravian Geographical Reports. Brno: Ústav Geoniky Av ČR, v.v.i., 2008, vol. 16, No 1, p. 46-54. ISSN 1210-8812. info
  • Central Europe: core or periphery? Edited by Christopher Lord. Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens forlag, 2000, 255 s. ISBN 8716134478. info
    not specified
  • Border culture : theory, imagination, geopolitics. Edited by Victor A. Konrad - Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023, 1 online. ISBN 1032294108. URL info
  • Border Cities and Territorial Development. Edited by Eduardo Medeiros. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021, 1 online. ISBN 9780367759438. URL info
  • DOOLEY, Neil. The European periphery and the Eurozone crisis: capitalist diversity and Europeanisation. New York: NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. info
  • Core-periphery relations in the European union : power and conflict in a dualist political economy. Edited by José M. Magone - Brigid Laffan - Chrstian Schweiger. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, xxvii, 311. ISBN 9781138889316. info
Teaching methods
The course will take the form of personal consultations between the lecturers and students. The focus of the work is the self-study of texts.
Assessment methods
Discussion of the content of the read texts that are relevant to the thematic content of the subject and the theoretical understanding of the student's dissertation. The subject of the evaluation is a critical interpretation of the texts for the dissertation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on course enrolment limitations: pro studenty doktorského studijního programu
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023.
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