Politics of space and mobility

Education facts

Code: SKA309

How is political life ordered across space and scales? How do things like security technologies, national borders and migration flows, real estate markets and gentrification processes, rural political identities and relations between (colonial) metropoles and peripheries affect power relations in and across societies? This course provides students with advanced knowledge in the study of political borders, human mobility and spatial orders. It introduces cutting-edge research frontiers in political science and related research areas such as international relations, migration research, political geography, urban and postcolonial studies. The course provides empirical knowledge about political borders, human mobility and spatial orders at the local, state and international level using contemporary and historical case studies. The course puts a particular focus on promoting understanding of global power relations and contemporary societal challenges. This is an online course with compulsory online seminars, self-study and written assignments. The course is held in English.

Entry requirements

A completed Bachelor’s degree from an institution of higher education of three years or more, equivalent to at least 180 credits and with a major in the field of political science or an equivalent academic field. In addition Swedish course 3 or Swedish level 3 and English course 6 or English level 2 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish course 3 or Swedish level 3.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Politics of space and mobility

  Mälardalen University

  Ortsoberoende

  Start date: 22 February 2027

  End date: 28 March 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %