Geography 317 - Dispossession,Dislocation,and Disease:Geographies of Population Vulnerability

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Colgate University

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E. Kraly This course integrates geographic perspectives on population dynamics, social justice, and human rights to consider theoretical, policy, and ethical dimensions of population vulnerability. Beginning initially from the perspective of population geography, the concept of population vulnerability refers to populations and communities that suffer heightened risks of morbidity, mortality, dislocation from home and homelands, dispossession from cultural and environmental resources, and risks to family welfare and formation. Analytic approaches to the geographic study of vulnerable populations are evaluated in relationship to selected cases such as displaced populations and refugees, health and health care in conflict and post-conflict societies, and legacies of dispossession of indigenous peoples and the Stolen Generation of Australia. Students participate in local and international service learning projects in relationship to the themes of the course. This course is crosslisted as PEAC 317.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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