Numbering Code	U-LET31 37454 LJ39	Year/Term	2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	reading
Target Year		Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period	Tue.3
Instructor name	SUGIE AI (Graduate School of Letters Senior Lecturer)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	This course reads the below book in turn. Although the author, Neil Smith, is well-known as a social geographer, the book is one of important literature that includes issues and topics across multiple subfields of human geography such as political geography, economic geography and historical geography. This course aims to develop students' reading comprehension of English materials and understanding of the fundamental concepts of human geography. A participant translates the assigned texts and prepares a handout for each presentation. Other participants must read those texts in advance for each class and give a comment or question at least once in discussion. Supplementary explanations on the texts are provided during the class, with using materials such as Neil Smith's other literature or conceptions that have been introduced by Japanese geographers. Smith, Neil. 2010. Uneven development: Nature, capital, and the production of space(3rd edition). University of Georgia Press.
Course Goals	Participants are expected to enhance their reading comprehension of English academic texts and their understanding of basic concepts of human geography.
Schedule and Contents	Week 1　Introduction of the book and author, assignment Week 2　Foreword～Introduction Week 3-4　Chap.1 The Ideology of Nature Week 5-6　Chap.2 The Production of Nature Week 7-8　Chap.3 The Production of Space Week 9-11　Chap.4 Toward a Theory of Uneven Development I: The Dialectic of 　Geographical Differentiation and Equalization Week 12-13　Chap.5 Toward a Theory of Uneven Development II: Spatial Scale and the Seesaw of Capital Week 14　Chap.6 Conclusion: The Restructuring of Capital?～Afterword Week 15　Summary and feedback
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Presentation is assigned to all participants at least once. The final grade will be evaluated according to effort of presentation (50 %) and active participation in class discussion (50%). A participant who copy-pastes the trasnlated texts by auto translation tools will fully lose presentation score (50%). A participant who absents from the class over four times without special reason cannot get the credits.
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	A participant translates the assigned texts and prepares a handout for each presentation. Other participants must read those texts and note a comment or question in advance for each class.
References, etc.	ジェントリフィケーションと報復都市：新たなる都市のフロンティア, スミス、N．, (ミネ ルヴァ書房), ISBN:978-4623070015 空間の政治地理, 水内俊雄編, (朝倉書店、2005), ISBN:978-4254167146 近現代の空間を読み解く, モリッシー、J．ほか, (古今書院、2017), ISBN:978-4772231848 文化地理学講義：<地理>の誕生からポスト人間中心主義へ, 森　正人, (新曜社、2021), ISBN:978-4788517394 【改訂版】政治・空間・場所：「政治の地理学」にむけて, 山崎孝史, (ナカニシヤ出版、2013), ISBN:978-4779507953