Course Overview I JUNCTURES_2022
Here you can find information about the academic courses and seminars encompassig JUNCTURES_2022!
Compared to other world regions, Latin America has some salient features that put the relationship between extractivism, social inequalities, and transregional at the center of …
The purpose of the seminar is to introduce an initial framework that leads to an understanding of the challenges posed by the dynamics of information …
Departing from the societal debate on reduced emissions during the first global lock-downs and the comparison of the COVID-19 crisis with the climate crisis, the course covers …
This course is structured in four parts. It first introduces to virulent communication phenomena that endanger our today’s societies and discourses, foremostly, hate speech, and fake news online. The second …
This workshop discusses the keys to the discourses on inequality and identities in the main migratory contexts of Latin America. This will be done on the …
In her recent study New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory (2021), Monika Kaup makes a case for reading contemporary postapocalyptic fiction as a supplement to the “new realisms” in philosophy (Bruno Latour, …
From an interdisciplinary and transnational approach and drawing upon contributions from the geographies of mobilities, critical migration and border studies, this course examines the impact …
The course builds on Oxfam’s 2021 report The Inequality Virus, which gives a detailed insight into the financial, gendered, and social mobility impact of the pandemic on …
The course introduces the scholarly debate about concepts of institutions, processes of institutional change, the role of agency – institutional work – in changing institutions, and the role of institutions in innovation and regional development. Adopting a view of relational economic geography, the course reviews …