ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ARAB COUNTRIES

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICA E POLITICA DEI PAESI ARABI
Course code
LM6190 (AF:272822 AR:160585)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
M-GGR/02
Period
1st Semester
Course year
2
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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Within the framework of the course in Language, Politics and Economics of the Arab countries, this teaching aims at studying key topics of the composite political and economic geography of the region through a critical perspective.
Students will acquire the analytical and methodological tools necessary to critically interpret the complex and variegated political and economic geography of the Arab region, by investigating key topics (e.g the labour question; natural resources and environment; agricultural development and agribusiness; the various forms of social contestation that have emerged over the last decade), drawing from several case studies (from North Africa to the Gulf), and taking into account a plurality of sources.
Knowledge of English
Background knowledge of the contemporary history of economic policies in the Arab countries
This teaching will deal with the following topics and corresponding case studies:
i) The employment of women in export-oriented manufacturing industries (Case studies: Jordan and Morocco).
ii) Agricultural development and agribusiness
iii) Energy and environment
iv) Forms of social contestation in the context of neoliberal reforms over the last decade (e.g. movements of unemployed in Morocco and Tunisia; the mobilization of trade unions in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia).
The list of readings to prepare the oral examination is available on moodle https://moodle.unive.it/login/index.php (Political and Economic Geography of Arab countries 2019-2020).

Those students who will not attend the classes are kindly requested to get in contact with me.
In the second part of the course, the topics covered will be examined by students through group activities.

The topics covered in the course will be discussed in class, starting from specific questions raised by the professor or daily newspapers connected to the topics covered by the lessons.
- Power-point presentations
- Case study analysis
- Group activities
- Analysis of audio sources and videos
- Analysis of primary sources (interviews, official documents, statistical data..)
- Complementary readings on the covered topics (not compulsory for the exam)
Italian
oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Goal 8: decent work and economic growth
Goal 12: responsible consumption and production
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 14/09/2019