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Module details for 2025/26.

30 credits

FHEQ Level 6

Module Outline

The module will consider geographical research on ‘race’ and ‘racisms’. There will be a focus
on what the axes of injustice, inequality, difference and identity influence in everyday
geographies. The course will engage with a range of theoretical tools with which to
conceptualise such differences (including space, place, embodiment, intersectionality,
essentialism v. non-essentialism, representation, nonrepresentational theory). By the end of
the module, students will be able to demonstrate critical understanding of different social,
cultural and political issues arising in research on the geographies of race, racism, difference
and identity, and will be able to apply such understandings to an in-depth case study of their
own choosing.
Themes will include: Race and the politics of landscape (public space, the national park, the
city); Race and geographies of the street; Race and Black histories; Race at the Museum;
Race and Visual Culture; Race and the politics of the environment; Race and Environmental
Justice (North and South); Race and the politics of Indigeneity. This experience of race in the
cultural politics of the everyday is routed through histories of empire, land, earth, identity
and the body. The intersections of ethnicity, identity, 'race' and the theorisation of
geographies of whiteness are explored. The module uses case study examples in published
research in Geography, Sociology, Cultural Studies and beyond to focus on the specificities of
racialisation and identity.

Module learning outcomes

Define ‘race’ and ‘racisms,’ locating these definitions in published
academic literatures.

Locate the roots of ‘race’ thinking in histories of geography,
anthropology, scientific thought and sociology.

Demonstrate an understanding of geographies of race and racism in
case studies in academic literatures.

Demonstrate an understanding of the intersections of ‘race’, gender,
nation, class, environment and regimes of colonialism

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

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