- Docente: Alessandra Bonazzi
- Credits: 12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Communication Sciences (cod. 0960)
Course contents
The course will cover the process of globalization. This will be considered from the sociological thinking of Saskia Sassen who moves from the geographical concept of the relationship between territory, authority and right, in order to understand the shape of contemporary space and by means of Peter Sloterdijk geophilosophy, in which our contemporary world is the ' final outcome of the modern reorganization of knowledge of the Earth.
Readings/Bibliography
S. Sassen, Territorio, autorità, diritti. Assemblaggi dal Medioevo all'età globale, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2008;
P. Sloterdijk, Il mondo dentro il capitale, Meltemi, Roma, 2006.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandra Bonazzi