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Learning outcomes |
General objectives:
1. Understand the phenomena of globalization, its societal consequences and its unequal incidence in contemporary societies. To study the challenges of human concentration and sustainability, demographic dynamics and migration in the contemporary world.
2. Encourage students to design, organize and execute scientific works with a theoretical and empirical dimension.
3. Develop the willingness to pursue learning activities appropriate to the level of training, as well as oral and written communication.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstration of understanding social, political, economic, cultural, environmental and territorial dimensions that characterize the contemporary world.
2. Ability to frame contemporary problems emerging from the explanation of theoretical concepts present in the analysis of the processes of globalization.
3. Analyze and discuss the relations between globalization and the study of sustainability problems, considering the different dimensions that constitute it, human concentration and living conditions.
4. Knowledge of impacts of the contemporary migratory flows and national, regional and international need to define strategies and policies adapted to global needs
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Syllabus |
Globalization - Concept and dimensions of globalization
1. The crisis of the traditional nation-state and the emergence of trans / international movements
2. Historical approach of social movements
3. The world space as a space of transaction of humanity.
II. Demographic flows and the impact on international (de) balances
III. Population movements in the globalized world
1. Migrants (IDPs, refugees, tourist flows, trafficking in persons)
IV. Challenges resulting from global cultural flows
1. Issues related to culture
2. Multicultural societies, representations and identities
3. Information flows and globalized information and communication networks
4. Integration mechanisms
5. The internationalization of deviant processes.
6. Populism.
V. The problem of sustainability
1. Brief summary of conceptual evolution
2. Territories, sustainability and the environment
3. Problems of modern lifestyles
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Main Bibliography |
Ascher, François (1998), Metapolis: Acerca do Futuro da Cidade, Celta Editora, Oeiras.
• Barreto, António (org.) (2005), Globalização e Migrações, ICS, Lisboa.
• Beck, Ulrick; Giddens, Anthony; Lash, Scott (2000), Modernização Reflexiva. Politica, tradição e estética no mundo moderno, Londres,Oeiras, celta Editora.
• Cravinho, João (2002). Visões do Mundo: as Relações Internacionais e o Mundo Contemporâneo. Lisboa: ICS
• Dolfus, Olivier (1998), A mundialização, Publicações Europa-América, Mem Martins
• Giddens, Anthony (1992). As consequências da modernidade, Oeiras: Celta
• MPG (2011). Migrant Integration Policy Index III. Bruxelas: British Council
• Nye, Joseph (2010). The Future of Power. Washington, DC: Public Affairs
• Perrons, Diane (2004) Globalization and Social Chance. People and Places in a divided world, London, Routlege.
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (org.) (2001), Globalização: Fatalidade ou utopia?, Edições Afrontamento, Porto.
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