The Caribbean in Globalizing World
GPHY 254
200-Level Courses
3 Units
In-person
3
one-way Exclusions
Lecture, online activity, private study
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Course Description
The past, present and future role of the Caribbean in the world economy, with an emphasis on the colonial legacy, debt and dependency, the effects of neoliberal reform and the changing geographies, and patterns of uneven development created by increasingly transnational flows of capital, people and culture.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the intellectual traditions within which concepts such as modernity, colonialism, racial capitalism, dependency, neoliberalism, uneven development, and sustainability operate as frameworks for understanding the Caribbean.
- Consolidate knowledge about space, place, scale, and power as abstract concepts through application to concrete issues of social justice in the Caribbean and its diaspora.
- Make connections between specific patterns of uneven geographical development and forms of resistance, and struggle within the Caribbean.
- Make connections between the specific economic and political relationships and policies that reproduce patterns of uneven geographical development within and across the Caribbean and the changing political economy of powerful states.
- Communicate complex ideas surrounding uneven development in the Caribbean and the social economic and spatial flows they generate to a lay audience.