Courses

The Seminar in Geographical Practice engages students with the breadth of geographical research through engagement with the Geography colloquium speakers. Students analyse the seminars and readings provided by the invited speakers with respect to concepts, methodology, and geographical practice.

Explores how power and knowledge shape intertwined social and ecological relationships, drawing on theoretically-informed ethnographies and other empirical studies, with an emphasis on global south research.

Examines contemporary themes in political geography, focusing on the ways in which power and political processes are both shaped by and shape particular spaces, scales, networks, and other spatial relations. Prerequisites: graduate student standing or Instructor permission.

This course explores the geographies of inequalities in the city. The course reviews a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that uncover the contested meaning of urban space and interrogate the nature of power in the city. Topics may include social policy, community and civil society organizations, cultural policy, governance, everyday territorialization, spatialities and spatial orders of identity, and the new geographies of the urban that have been developing since the 1970s that place urban growth and urbanization in the 'global south'.

This course examines the political economy of capitalism from a geographical angle. Topics may include the spatial and environmental aspects of capitalism, labour organization, globalization, development, special economic zones, innovation and the digital economy.

The Graduate Programs in Politics, Geography and Environmental Studies jointly hold an annual summer school (usually in the month of June or July) where an issue within the field of international political economy and ecology has been explored under the guidance of York faculty members and guest scholars with particular expertise. Students are drawn from our graduate programs, from other Canadian universities and from abroad. This is a seminar course accompanied by a public event. Each session consists of a lecture course and an associated workshop. Successful completion of the summer school will serve as course credits towards a student's MA or PhD program. Previous summer schools have focused on the ecology of post-Fordism, global finance, economic restructuring and the world city. Crosslisted POLS 6282.03 and GEOG 5395.03. Permission by graduate program.

Offers a historical examination of the multiple, overlapping processes through which Asian identities and regions were constituted. It will also examine new directions in Asian studies in an era of intensified global flows, transnationalism, and the presence of Asian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.

Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.

Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.