Globalization and International Development

In recent years, geographers and other social and environmental scientists have been studying consequences of processes of globalization operating at ever-broader scales, increased speed, and with widening global reach. Such processes of globalization (and the anti-globalization and global justice movements they have stimulated) are re-shaping the geographies of international and local capital, labor, technology, information, goods and services, and they are re-working the post-War Fordist geographies of economic, social, and political life in the United States and globally.

Geographers at UNC focus their work on issues relating to the global economy, transnationalism, global cultures, and the Global South.
Geographers at UNC-CH are engaged in the study of globalization through a variety of research and teaching projects, including national film industries, economic restructuring and global outsourcing in the Americas and Eastern Europe, trans-national migrant communities in the Americas and in Europe, development geographies and social movements in Latin America, work and migration in the Americas, global health and the geo-politics of Natures.

Faculty members and students are members of, and contribute to, UNC Research Centers and Curricula in American, International and Area Studies. UNC geographers are also integrated into a variety of related programs, seminars, and working groups on campus and at Duke, and students have the opportunity to take courses on both campuses.

Associated Faculty

Altha Cravey, Banu P. Gökariksel, Scott Kirsch, Melinda Meade, John Pickles, Steve Walsh, Wendy Wolford, Jim Fraser, Arturo Escobar (adjunct: Anthropology).