| CODE | SOC5021 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Space and Place | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sociology | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will introduce students to the contemporary scholarship on space and place. The point of departure is the 'spatial turn' in the social sciences. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding how societies inhabit, attach meaning to, and derive meaning from place. The discussion will go beyond simplistic social constructionist models of place to engage with the actual physicality of inhabited environments. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to bring together theory and practice, in that students will be equipped to 'read' and analyse places in light of the contemporary scholarship on space and place, and to apply that reading to the actual practice of social impact assessment (SIA). Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - analyse and compare space and place as key parts of social experience (as opposed to givens); - analyse place as socially produced in interaction with physical attributes; - analyse place as process, perpetually in the making; - describe and interpret place as the possibility of simultaneous multiplicity, and therefore fundamentally political and contested. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply the contemporary critical scholarship on space and place to the analysis of actual lived places; - apply this analysis to the practice of social impact assessment (SIA). Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Hubbard, P. & Kitchin, R. 2010. Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Sage. - Herod, A. 2011. Scale. Routledge. - Lefebvre, H. 1992. The Production of Space. Wiley-Blackwell. - Massey, D. 2005. For Space. Sage. - Cresswell, T. 2014. Place: An introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. - Massey, D. 1994. Space, Place and Gender. University of Minnesota Press. - Heidegger, M. 2001. Poetry, Language, Thought. Harper Perennial. Tally, R.T. 2012. Spatiality: The new critical idiom. Routledge. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Fieldwork and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Mark Anthony Falzon Antoine Zammit |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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