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Department of Geography
MSc Globalisation and Development
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Introduction
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Programme structure
Specialist courses
Understanding Globalisation and Development I
This course aims to develop advanced and
critical understandings of geographies of
globalisation and development and to engage
with questions of power and resistance. It also
aims to provide an advanced theoretical
grounding in the core aspects of globalisation as
a process. It does so by exploring the economic,
political and social dimensions of processes of
globalisation. This includes a consideration of the
history of globalisation and capitalism from a
range of perspectives including analyses of neoliberalism, gender and globalisation, global cities
and urban fragmentation, globalisation and the
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Teaching staff
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Student experience
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