Abstract:

There are growing demands on the theories and approaches of political geography facing the reconstruction of world order and optimization of domestic governance in current era. However, the development of Chinese political geography is lagged behind as the progress in political geographical theories has not been incorporated in the mainstream Chinese textbooks and limited consensus has been reached on the contents of political geography courses. This article attempts to propose a syllabus of political geography based on summary and comparison of Chinese and foreign mainstream textbooks and syllabuses. Our syllabus is centered on the interactions between politics or power and geography or space and organized according different scales. Specifically, we suggest 17 lectures in 5 sections: the overview of political geography as a sub-discipline of human geography; the key concept such as power, state, territory and scale; political geographical theories at inter-national scale; political geographical theories at sub-national scale; application of political geographical theories and approaches. Our syllabus includes some frontier academic achievement on thoughts and methodology of political geography and emerging topics such as political ecology, international migration, gentrification and the "Belt & Road" Initiative. This article may be helpful for the compilation of political geography textbooks and course design for Chinese undergraduate and graduate students.

Key words: Political geography, textbook, syllabus, territory, scale, intellectual history

摘要：

当前的国际形势和国内治理问题对政治地理学理论和方法发展提出了巨大需求，但是目前国内政治地理学的学科和理论体系仍相对滞后，缺乏能够反映近二十年来理论进展和取得广泛共识的政治地理教材或课程体系。为此，本文在系统梳理和比较中西方主流政治地理教材和课程大纲的基础上，尝试提出一个面向中国当前需求的政治地理课程体系设计。该课程体系以“政治/权力”与“地理/空间”的关系为核心，以尺度为主线，包含学科概览、核心概念、国际尺度的政治地理理论、次国家尺度的政治地理理论和政治地理理论和方法的应用5大方面，纳入了关于学科思想史、方法论等方面的前沿成果和近年兴起的关于政治生态学、跨境移民、绅士化和“一带一路”倡议等理论议题，可供面向本科生和研究生的政治地理教材编写和课程设计参考。

关键词: 政治地理, 教材, 课程大纲, 领域, 尺度, 思想史