Geography

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Discipline Representative: A. Sorensen
Supervisor of Studies: social-sciences-counsellor@utsc.utoronto.ca
Phone: (416) 208-2683
Programs offered: Major, Minor
Courses Offered: 2009-2010

Geographers are developing innovative ways to explore the greater connectivity of everyday life, the importance of place to global movements of people and ideas, new patterns of uneven economic development and new social concerns around the environment, health and mega-cities. The study of difference puts contemporary human geography at the centre of one of the biggest shifts in social theory in the last 20 years: the rise of "post-modernism," broadly defined as a criticism of "meta-narratives" such as those seen to have been crudely centered on the fixed nature of class, race, or gender. Yet there are questions about the way post-modernism can celebrate abstract ideas of difference, plurality, and contingency and ignore the concrete and lived nature of social practices.