• Upon completion of the course, the instructed are expected to be able to know, understand, analyze, assess critically and synthecize issues and aspects of articulation and perception of personal and collective micro-geographies of human contexts of life, in time and space, with a special emphasis on the case of contemporary Greece. More specifically:
• To develop and probe into concepts, theories and conceptual models, concerning the spaces and places of everyday private and public life. 
• To focus, among other things, on the geographies of home and community, geographies of domesticity and homelessness, representations of personal geographies on mental maps, behavioral dimensions of space, time geography, as well as on the ontological and epistemological tensions between human agency and social structure, as units of reference in geographical analysis. 
• To grasp the interplay between these cultural concepts and social relations with their broader socio-economic and historical contexts,
• To evaluate their political, ethical, philosophical and other repercussions.
• To enrich and further develop their geographical perceptions, ways of thinking and expressions, through critical readings and analysis of other models, theories and concepts of the social sciences--and geography, in particular.

The objective of the course is to probe into and examine in depth issues and aspects of articulation, analysis and perception of personal and collective micro-geographies of human contexts of life, in time and space, with an emphasis on the case of contemporary Greece.

PROGRAM OF LECTURE UNITS

1. Introduction and the general theoretical context. The new geographies of social relations and the construction of contemporary spatial identities.
2. Negotiation of personal and collective geographies in cultural, social and historical geography. Personal geographies, lifeworlds and spaces of everyday life. Human agency and social structure, as units of reference in cultural analysis.
3. The dimensions of space and time in geography. Sense of place, landscape and space psychology; psychogeography. The theory and inroads of time geography and behavioral methodologies in geography.
4. Private and public spaces of everyday life, in time and space. The concepts of home and domesticity in the contemporary western world. Gender, family and identity. The case of Greece.
5. The structures and functions of community in the western world: a brief historical overview. The concept of community in geography and the social sciences. Social, ethnic and other groupings of social reference and their relationship with space: locality, topophilia, geosophy, patriotism, etc and the sense of belonging.
6. Identity, multi-culturalism and recent globalization trends of homogenization and differentiation in everyday life. Geographical representations of personal and collective geographies and landscapes and mental maps.

1. Constantopoulou, Ch. (2009). The Sociology of “Everyday life”: An Introduction. Athens: Papazissis Publications.
2. Instructor’s notes
3. Package of journal articles and book chapters