Syllabus
3.10. Libor Jelen – organization of the course, introduction to political geography, research trends, Czech political geography arena 10.10.
Libor Jelen: Phantom borders – historical and geographical context of contemporary societal structures 17.10. Jonáš Suchánek: Theorizing nativism through contemporary populist radical right parties 24.10.
Filip Sommer: Politics and governance in the Middle East: Case studies of Iraq and Syria 31.10. Evgeny Romanovskiy: Europe as a geopolitical actor beyond its borders 7.11.
Radek Pileček: Czech voters and their motivations: Diversity of the decision-making processes 14.11. David Hána: Political graffiti in the political symbolic space 21.11.
Martin Lepič: Geography of secessionism in the EU and beyond: Spatial dimension of independence preferences in Catalonia and Scotland 28.11. Vít Volný: Religious Soft Power: The Case of Kosovo 5.12.
Student´s presentation 12.12. Student´s presentation 19.12.
Student´s presentation 2.1. Student´s presentation
Annotation
The aim of the course is to reveal contemporary currents of thought and modern research in the field of political geography. In terms of content, the course is designed as a presentation of current research conducted by Czech political geography and their inclusion in the research of world geography.
Thematically, the course is structured into three basic thematic units: local politics and its various manifestations, nationalism and electoral geography, geopolitics and critical approaches to the study of political geography.