اطلاعات درس

The course aims at providing knowledge on the fundamental interrelations between territorial development, economic development and socio-spatial polarisation. The socio-ecological transition, economic transformation as well as the neoliberalisation of regional policy are processes which affect regions in Europe in different ways and result in various forms of socio-spatial, political and geo-economic polarisation at different spatial scales. After providing a mainstream-understanding of economic development, alternative avenues and approaches to development are discussed. As a cross-cutting perspective, within the course, issues of regional development will be discussed under the lense of multiplicity in relation to heterodox economic geographies in the pluriverse. In introducing these concepts, course participants will be enabled to reflect on local and regional development from mainstream and heterodox perspectives. Course participants are expected to engage in group discussions and group work based on the cross-cutting topics of the course.