Why is poverty persisting in many regions of the world? How do communities fight, address and live with rapid global warming and changing environments? How do border regimes produce a global inequality in access and exclusion to nation states? What does it mean to live in a society with different legal status? How to explain gender inequalities in societies worldwide? How to explain the COVID-19 equity gap? How can environmental politics be thought of beyond modern binaries of Nature and Culture? What does decolonial thinking, practice and politics entail? How is it that in crises and disasters not all people are equally likely to come to harm? The English-language Master of Science "Geographies of Global Inequalities" is concerned with these kinds of questions.

The “Geographies of Global Inequalities” Master's program is hosted by the Human Geography section of the Institute for Geography in Berlin. After a standard period of study of 4 semesters, successful students will be awarded the degree of Master of Science (M.Sc.). The language of instruction is English.

The English-language Master of Science "Geographies of Global Inequalities" is concerned with global inequalities from a relational perspective. The geographical perspective on inequalities focuses on the connections between global dependencies and ruptures. The regional focus of the program is both on people and places in the so-called Global South and North. It takes into account that economic and societal privilege or disadvantage in a globalized world is not captured by binary divisions, but much more complex: spatially fragmented, relational and unevenly distributed while existing in close spatial proximity.