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Geographies of Global Inequalities

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  • Introduction to Geographies of Global Inequalities

    7188aA1.1
    • 24219001 Lecture
      Introduction to Geographies of Global Inequalities (Ulrike Beisel)
      Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-13)
      Location: G 110 Hörsaal (Malteserstr. 74-100 G)

      Comments

      The lecture introduces topics and concepts in human geography and the social sciences related to the spatialization and analysis of global inequalities. We will cover pertinent debates, conceptual and disciplinary history, as well as important cross-cutting approaches such as intersectionality, feminist, postcolonial and decolonial approaches are introduced. Thematically, the module introduces the key challenges and issues that shape or are shaped by global inequalities, as well as contribute to their emergence and maintenance.

    • 24219015 Advanced seminar
      Introduction to Geographies of Global Inequalities (Ulrike Beisel)
      Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-13)
      Location: C 108/09 Seminarraum Mineralogie (Malteserstr. 74-100 C)
    • 24219115 Advanced seminar
      Introduction to Geographies of Global Inequalities (Stefan Schütte)
      Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-13)
      Location: G 204 Luftbildraum (Malteserstr. 74-100 G)
    • 24220015 Advanced seminar
      Introduction to Geographies of Global Inequalities (Stefan Schütte)
      Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-13)
      Location: K 078 Sitzungsraum GD (Malteserstr. 74-100 K)

  • Geographies of Global Inequalities: Methods and Methodologies

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  • Project Work III: Presentation and Discussion

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  • Advanced Class (Conceptual)

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    • 24210611 Seminar
      Labour Geographies of the ‘Green’ Energy Transition. Foundations, Concepts and Analysis. (Stephan Liebscher)
      Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2025-10-14)
      Location: G 205 (Malteserstr. 74-100 G)

      Comments

      The ‘green’ transition of the energy sector is a central pillar of the decarbonisation of the economy as a whole. Replacing fossil resources (coal, gas) and the power plants that run on them with renewable technologies fundamentally changes the socio-spatial relations of labour (e. g. labour processes, labour markets, gender and race relations, political regulations, union practices). The study field of labour geographies provides useful lenses and tools to critically examine the ‘green’ energy transition from the perspective of labouring classes. In this seminar, students will engage with a selection of materialist / Marxist foundations of Labour Geographies and a variety of theoretical concepts from within and beyond its classical canon (including approaches such as state regulation, social reproduction, political ecology, migrant labour, racialisation, working class solidarity, political organisation). Based on a solid understanding of labour geographies and the green energy transition, students will analyse current policies, narratives and practices on different scales (from local to inter-/national). Hence, we use the energy sector as example to understand broader debates on green capitalism and imagine emancipatory alternatives.
    • 24210711 Seminar
      S - Konzeptionelle Vertiefung: Science and Technology Studies (Ulrike Beisel)
      Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-14)
      Location: C 014 großer Seminarraum (Malteserstr. 74-100 C)

  • Advanced Class (Thematic)

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    • 24211211 Seminar
      S - Thematische Vertiefung: Political ecology of land ownership and land value(s) (Eleanor Schaumann)
      Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-15)
      Location: , G 204 Luftbildraum

      Comments

      Land is currently being grabbed, developed, protected, and exploited in many contexts worldwide. Amidst the accelerating climate crisis and violent conflicts, this is unlikely to change. Using theoretical approaches from political ecology and material semiotics, this class examines the multiple ways in which land is valued, claimed, and contested. The course will deal with the issues of land use and land rights in multiple contexts including agriculture, settler colonialism and energy transitions. Students are introduced to current academic debates around land ownership and land rights.
    • 24211811 Seminar
      S - Thematische Vertiefung: Disasters. Theories, Concepts and Perspectives (Daniel Lorenz, Martin Voß)
      Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-13)
      Location: C 111 Seminarraum Geographie (Malteserstr. 74-100 C)

      Comments

      Disasters are critical interactions within and between societies and their (bio-physical) environments, in which a variety of processes, such as increased inequalities, mobility, urbanization or technological development interact and become uncontrollable. Disaster research seeks to understand these calamitous processes and examine their causes and ramifications.

      The seminar is an introduction to crisis and disaster research and will cover the following topics: theoretical approaches to disasters, the history of disaster research, risk perception, vulnerability, resilience, disaster cultures, collective and individual behavior and responses to disasters and disaster management. The topics are developed on the basis of theories and concepts, as well as case studies.

      At the end of the seminar, students will have a comprehensive insight into disaster research, its theories and sub-concepts. They can relate their thematic knowledge to current disaster-related processes and problems and analyze and explain them with the help of the conceptual approaches they have learned.

  • Internship and Project Management

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    • 24211911 Seminar
      Project Management (Charrlotte Adelina)
      Schedule: Mi 10:00-13:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-15)
      Location: G 205 (Malteserstr. 74-100 G)

      Additional information / Pre-requisites

      Students are required to attend the first meeting if they would like to confirm their place in the course. The first meeting would take place on the 15th October, 2-4 PM. 

      There will be two additional slots (full days) in December for the proposal review.

      Comments

      Content: Based on a case study, a project is structured and planned in detail (e.g. including a time and budget plan). Basics of team building and team communication are developed. Students will decide on the project that they want to develop through the course and work on a proposal through the course. A mock 'proposal review' will be conducted at the end of the course, where we will present and review the project.

      Qualification Goals: The students are familiar with the basics of project management. They are able to independently design, structure and apply for a project, plan the workflow and appropriately present their results in oral and written form within the framework of a presentation. They thus learn important skills for their Master's thesis, for project work and for project applications. 

  • Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

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  • Modules w/o courses in this semester

    5 Modules
    • Project Work I: Thematic and Methodological Preparation 7188aA2.1
    • Project Work II: Empirical Research and Data Analysis 7188aA2.2
    • Related Module 1 7188aA5.1
    • Related Module 2 7188aA5.2
    • Related Module 3 7188aA5.3