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Looks at the way internal political forces have influenced Spain’s transition to a parliamentary democracy.
As the United States prepares for the 2008 election, historian Simon Schama presents a personal view of how America arrived at where it is today, and the challenges it faces for the future. With the US...
A dramatic documentary that looks at the astonishing recent political history of Tibet. Spending over ten years making the film, director Tom Peosay presents a concise, educational chronology that tracks the...
Poverty, displacement and sustainability are just some of the issues faced by the world today in the context of international development. Using case-studies from around the world, this course explores the...
A critique of Oscar Newman’s book ‘Defensible Space’. It takes a satirical look at the five main codes of knowledge that underpin the notion of ‘defensible space’: animal behaviour, social...
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, director Spike Lee, like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and...
A succinct documentary on Israel’s settlement programme, encompassing the underlying dynamics of the Israeli-Palestine conflict. In 1923, Vladimir Jabotinsky - father of the Zionist right - wrote: "Zionist...
This programme looks at the challenges of achieving sustainable management in the Amazon, using the example of Ecuador as a case study. It explores the political and economic factors that contribute to...
In a public lecture Professor Etienne Balibar looks at the role played by racism and migration in changing the political and cultural geography of Europe. Taking issue with some of the more simplistic...
Introduces Lösch’s central place theory. Makes the point that settlement patterns in the real world are both complicated and interrelated; they arise from a wide variety of natural, political, economic...
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