About the course

This is a reading seminar course focused on recent works of relevance to critical geographical research on human geography and cities. There is so much diversity in approach and style involved in contemporary research and writing in these fields that it is not possible to teach a general overview of ‘contemporary’ developments, let alone contextualize these in (inter)disciplinary history, in ten sessions. Instead, we will read and discuss readings related to selected topics of current interest, trying to achieve some level of theoretical understanding, while having an eye to how the concepts involved can achieve some form of relevance in empirical research. 

Together, we focus on the dynamic interplay between research and reflection, practice and theory in the human sciences, and more specifically in human geography and urban studies.  The paper that students write should help enable their broader conceptualizations of feasible research projects within the broader scope of contemporary human geography and the human/social sciences more generally.

In 2022-3, this course will be taught on the LSE campus, not on Zoom.