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Jonathan Glick
GEOG 342
Seattle Campus
Geographies of social, political, and economic inequality. Focus is usually on North American cities. Examines the theoretical underpinning of inequality. Explores topics such as the spatial distribution of wealth and poverty, the geographies of exclusion, and discrimination in paid employment and housing.
Class description
We will use a seminar format for this course. Class meetings will consist of lecture, and small and large group discussions, focusing on a particular book. We will relate the readings to the problem of inequality as studied in the discipline of geography, as represented in the media, and as experienced in your own lives. In our study of inequality, we will focus on three particular sites: the urban slums of the global South, the public school districts of the US, and the most prominent global financial centers. We will also consider the connections and similarities of these sites to others around the world and closer to home.
Student learning goals
To gain a greater understanding of the various causes of inequality in the contemporary world.
To understand the geographic approach to inequality, in which geography interacts with social, political and economic forms of inequality.
To relate academic texts to current events
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