Description
Our lives are situated within global webs of interconnection, where individuals’ experiences are influenced by large-scale structures, and yet local events have global consequences. This module tackles social and political issues through the notion that they are to be understood at the nexus between global, national and local, for example, climate change and environmental risks and sustainability, migration, the role of technology and related networks, the impact of global pandemics, and how these issues are managed through neo-liberal and biopolitical frames of governing. The module will enable students to learn about their drivers, causes and effects, their interconnections, dislocations and to understand how they are influenced by global processes, international governing structures and as local contexts. It will also explore how global homogenising forces can be disrupted via local and group action and responses which may, in turn, become more transformative processes that pose challenges to capitalist societies.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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