Geog 621:  Current Trends in Geography

Winter 2001 -- University of Oregon
Prof. Pat McDowell


Syllabus | Books & Journals | Term Paper Assignment | P. McDowell home page | Dept. of Geography


Week 7 Schedule and Assignments


Monday, Feb. 19:  Recent developments in Cyberspace Geography (Searl)

Reading assignment:  

Aitken, Stuart. 1999. "Scaling the Light Fantastic: Geographies of Scale and the WEB," Journal of Geography, 98:118-127.

Brunn, Stanley and Charles Cottle. 1997.  "Small States and Cyberboosterism," Geographical Review, 87(2): 240-258, April 1997.

Froehling, Oliver. 1997. "The Cyberspace 'War of Ink and Internet' in Chiapas Mexico," Geographical Review, 87(2): 291-307, April 1997.

Starrs, Paul. 1997. "The Sacred, the Regional, and the Digital," Geographical Review, 87(2): 193-218, April 1997.  Read p. 193-197; skim the rest of the article.  

Copies of all articles are in Condon 108.  


Wednesday, Feb. 21:  Recent developments in Feminist Geography (Nelson)

Reading assignment:  

McDowell, L., 1993.  Space, place and gender relations: Part I. Feminist empiricism and the geography of social relations.  Progress in Human Geography 17: 157-179.

McDowell, L., 1993.  Space, place and gender relations: Part II. Identify, difference, feminist geometries and the geographies.  Progress in Human Geography 17: 305-318.

Copies are in Condon 108.  


Syllabus | Books & Journals | Term Paper Assignment | P. McDowell home page | Dept. of Geography

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