University of London, Queen Mary

This course examines a range of live productions to explore strategies for reading live performance that recognize the importance of where performances take place. Students visit the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Barbican as well as "fringe" or alternative venues in examining how they read the performance event. Students are expected to engage with critical reviews of performances, examine the role of press and marketing, and explore the targeting of specific productions to particular audience groups.

This course offers a broad introduction to key debates within economic geography. It explores the geographies of production and global production networks; the re-centering of economic geography through engagement with the Global South and development; the centrality of uneven development in capitalist economic social relations; the connections between globalization and local socio-spatial relations; and alternative or diverse economic practices that challenge neoliberalism. The course challenges students to understand how economic processes of valuation, production, consumption, and exchange play out in practice in time and place.