This course provides an introduction to economic geography. Our contemporary economic life is increasingly constituted at a global scale, from uneven development, space-shrinking technologies, and environmental degradation to powerful global corporations, organized labor, financial movement and ethnic economies.
Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the globe; specifically, how the economic realm is intertwined with other spheres of international social life. This class introduces new economic geographies about everyday economic life.
What learners take away from this course is an understanding of economic geography as a dynamic, diverse and contested body of knowledge that aims to provide critical insights into the workings of contemporary societies and economies globally including Vietnam.
The course introduces learners to basic approaches, concepts and theories that economic geographers use; it will help you to understand how these concepts and theories may be applied in the context of the globalizing world economy; and it will make you aware of the ways in which economic geography approaches can inform policymaking.
- Teacher: Nam Nguyen