Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Spatial analysis of social structuring , economic patterns and
political groupings: commodity chain analysis, public-private domains,
shifts from nomadic groupings to nation-states, international
organizations and regional blocks. Spatial implications of the
Internet and emerging communications technologies.
- Temporal analysis of contemporary political-economy and social
struggles: Partition of British India, Consolidation of the states,
history of identity struggles. Temporal implications of the Internet.
- Methods of analysis: qualitative, quantitative, archival:
introductions to basic research tools of the humanities and social
sciences.
- Space and time in built form and human-environment relationships:
spatial and temporal diffusion of disease, historical and spatial
ordering of urban and rural settlements.
- Theoretical dimensions: Space as productive. Time as non-linear.
Time-space compression. World-systems theory. Actor-network theory.
- P. Hubbard; R, Kitchin; and G, Valentine (Eds.) Key thinkers on
Space and Place, Sage (2004).
- R. Guha, India after Gandhi: a history of the world's largest
democracy, Harper Collins (2007).
- T. Friedman The World is Flat: a brief history of the 21st
century. Thomas. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publications (2005).
