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Development and Decolonization in Latin America

This is an Honours course in Geography that studies the continent that we now call Latin America through a decolonial, feminist, and anti-capitalist lens. It enables students to work effectively […]

Rae Rosenberg

Rae Rosenberg is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores […]

Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender

Spatialising Sexuality and Gender: Queer and Trans Geographies¿ provides an opportunity for students to critically, and self-reflexively, consider how sexuality and gender inform, and unfold in, the everyday spaces we […]

Environment Justice and Development

This course aims to introduce students to relationships between the environment (nature, biodiversity, natural resources, ecosystem services etc.) and (international) development (well-being, social justice, inclusion etc.), and the ways in […]

The Nature of Geographical Knowledge

The course examines the history and contested nature of what counts as knowledge in geography. It deals with how geographers have investigated and understood the world in the past, and […]

Social and Cultural Geography

Social and Cultural Geography considers why geography matters to the analysis and understanding of social relations as well as cultural identities and values. The course will explore a number of […]

Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power

This course aims to grapple with many of the big themes in political and economic geography nationalism, globalisation, financialisation, neoliberalism, and so on but rather than deal with these in […]

Sam Staddon

Sam is a feminist political ecologist committed to environmental and social justice, working in Nepal and Scotland. Her research explores the social relations, power and politics involved in conservation, forestry […]

Julie Cupples

Julie Cupples (she/her/Ella) is a Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies who works in Latin America and Aotearoa New Zealand and with media organizations and media texts. She is […]

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