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GEOS311: Asia-Pacific Development |
This unit provides a regional geography of Australia's 'neighbourhood' and explores the processes and consequences of development in the Asia-Pacific region. The region is presented as a highly differentiated entity undergoing rapid social, spatial and political transformation. The key themes of the course are: economic, political and social change in the Asia Pacific: shifts from authoritarianism to democratic governments and from socialism to capitalism, subsistence to consumerism and state-society responses to further integration with the 'west'; Australia-Asia relations and the Australian media's perception of Asia; dilemmas associated with development and economic and political change in the region; contestation by various stakeholders over resources at various scales; (international, national and local level); urbanisation and the Asian city.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: |
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year
(On Campus session: 8 September; 3 November) |
| Staff Contact: |
Dr Lloyd |
| Prerequisites: |
40cp
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| Unit Designations: |
Social Science
Commerce; Economics
Science
| | Assessed As: |
Graded
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| Offered By: |
Department of Human Geography |
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