Seminar: Digital Geography 7: Selected Concepts and Theories: Geographical Thought from Latin America: Decolonial Perspectives and Critical Approaches - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: Digital Geography 7: Selected Concepts and Theories: Geographical Thought from Latin America: Decolonial Perspectives and Critical Approaches
Course number	GEO.08547
Semester	SoSe 2026
Current number of participants	30
expected number of participants	20
Home institute	Digitale Geographie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Monday, 18.05.2026 16:00 - 18:00, Room: SR 4 3.40 [VSP 4](Geowiss.)
Lehrsprache(n)	Englisch
ECTS points	5

Lehrende

• Igor Dalla Vecchia

Rooms and times

SR 4 3.40 [VSP 4](Geowiss.)

Monday: 16:00 - 18:00, weekly (13x)

Fields of study

• Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie > Master International Area Studies – Global Change Geography

Comment/Description

The course provides an introductory overview of the historical precedents and key concepts of the decolonial approach, as well as its impacts on geographical thought in Latin America. It also engages with critical perspectives developed by scholars from the region that both dialogue with and critically challenge the assumptions of decolonial thought. The main objective of the course is to broaden students’ conceptual repertoire from a non-European epistemic standpoint, fostering and qualifying the empirical operationalization of concepts within their own master’s research projects.