Politics

Land, Power and Politics: a Critical Problem-Based Approach
Module POC2118 for 2018/9

Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2118: Land, Power and Politics: a Critical Problem-Based Approach

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

The social root of politics, power and land;
The polis, latifunda, and the ‘rise and fall’ of civilisations;
‘The age of change’: revolution and colonialism;
From the socialist grand narrative of land-power-politics to the triumph of the liberal settlement;
Contemporary challenges and opportunities in the politics and policy of land;
Post-colonialism, feminism, indigenous and sub-altern voices;
Ecological voices in the Anthropocene and socio-agrarian activism;
Land and resource conflict;
‘The future’ of land, power and politics: climate change, the third industrial revolution, and the green state.

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
25	125

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity	11	11 x 1 hour lectures
Scheduled learning & teaching activities	11	11 x 1 hour seminars
Scheduled learning & teaching activities	3	Week eleven consultancy assessment seminar
Guided independent study	50	Reading and seminar preparation
Guided Independent Study	25	Coursework preparation and writing
Inter-dependent group activity	50	Coursework preparation and writing

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).