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 Political
Economy
Geographers at Syracuse University understand political economy
to be a social relationship. This social relationship is
deeply geographical: our research starts from the understanding
that social relations, social struggles, and social justice are
all intricately related to the ways that political-economic
processes are imbricated in and transformed through spatial
relationships. In addition to understanding the relationship
between political economy and geography, we seek to understand
the relationship political economy and gender; political economy
and labor; political economy and the restructuring of places and
regions; political economy and culture. In all of these we want
to understand how space, place, region, and scale structure and
restructure political economic processes, even as political
economic processes restructure space, place, region, and scale.
Recent and current students have examined changing political
economic regimes in Northeastern Asia and their impact on
undocumented migrants from North Korea; the economic and spatial
structures that make “placeless” media like MTV possible; the
neoliberal transformation of New York and the changing landscape
of alternative dance clubs; political-economic restructuring in
Europe and immigrant youth in Paris; regional restructuring and
geographies of social reproduction in South Dakota; the US state
and the globalization of agriculture; the changing structures of
livelihood in post-apartheid South Africa; the economic
restructuring of India’s Information Technology industry and
gender transformations of software work; and the urban spatial
implications of Chilean development under Pinochet.
Faculty
Don Mitchell (Political economy
of culture; labor geographies; urban restructuring and the
politics of public space; Marxism; political economy of
landscape)
Thomas Perreault (Political
ecology, political economy of nature, international development, Latin
America)
Tod Rutherford (Political
economy of innovation, work and labor markets; economic
governance; and restructuring in the automobile industry)
David Robinson
(Latin American micro-regional and municipal development;
integrated development in the Andes)
Jamie Winders (Race/ethnicity,
gender, migration, social theory, US South, urban and historical
geography, research methods)
Related
Courses
Undergraduate
Geo 173
World Political Economy
Geo 311 The New North Americas
GEO 321 Latin America: Spatial Aspects of Development
Geo 322 Globalization and Environment in Latin America
Geo 361 Global Economic Geography
Geo 367 Gender in a Globalizing World
Mixed Undergraduate and Graduate
Geo 561
Global Economic Geography
Geo 573 Geography of Capital
Graduate
Geo 605
Theories of Development
GEO 720 Latin American Seminar
Geo 755 Seminar in Political Ecology
Geo 764 Gender and Globalization
Geo 773 Seminar in Economic Geography
Geo 815 Seminar in Urban Geography
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