GEOG 455

Spring 2021 Part of Term A

Part of Term A
Jan 25-Mar 19

Geog of Sub-Saharn Africa

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Credit: 3 hours.

Regional geography of Africa south of the Sahara. Geographic analysis of Africa which includes topics in both physical and human geography and provides a general overview of the processes and interactions between human and environmental factors that shape Africa's physical and human geography.

3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours.

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GEOG 455 class schedule data for spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	61547	Online	A	9:00AM -10:50AM	TR	n.a.	Butcher, S	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/25/21-03/19/21 Section Info: Rather than the old adage: “To think of Africa is to think of poverty” (O’Connor 1991), in the year 2020, any geographer would agree that “To think of Africa is to think of many things”, like all places! To name a few: its 55 diverse countries; economic growth over the last two decades; new resource booms and their contestations; impressive urbanization; changing state development strategies; new renderings in global popular culture; shifting forms of inclusion and inequality; the work of political organizing, and the improvisationz making everyday life possible. From these points of departure—continental dynamism, connection, and multiplicity—this course explores current debates animating scholarship of and from African contexts.Organised thematically instead of regionally, we will focus on key themes within the concerns of urban geography, economic geography, development geography and political ecology. Potential themes include: coloniality and liberation; problematizing the state and capitalism; urbanization; social difference; contested development models; hybrid infrastructures; mobility; informality and incrementalism; knowledge and technology politics; and imagining sustainable, just futures. We’ll work with these themes and debates critically and through specific case studies, while always drawing connections to elsewhere. The course aims to contribute to building “new geographies of theory” (Roy 2009), adding concepts and texts to students’ analytical toolbox for research in any context.