Year 2 Options

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Development Studies

• Year 2 Options
• Spring and Summer Term

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Introduction to development economicsYear 2
spring/summer termJulie Litchfield

• Contemporary themes of development economics
• Poverty and inequality economic growth and why
  different countries have different rates of
  growth the role of agriculture in development
  economics of conflict and climate change
• Theories, Debates, Evidence and Analytical
  methods used in economics
• Appreciation of the contribution economics can
  make to understanding development issues, but
  also the limits
• Assessment 2 essay exam one of which is an
  essay for informal assesment

3
Development and the State 1. Introduction PART
I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE STATE 2.
Liberalism and Pluralism 3. Marxism 4. Realism
and Weberianism 5. Postmodernism and
Post-Structuralism PART II STATE FORMS,
DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES 6. The Rise of the Major
Capitalist States 7. The Post-War Welfare
State 8. The Post-Colonial Bureaucratic-Authoritar
ian State 9. The Developmental State 10. The
Rentier State PART III RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 11.
The Failed State 12. The Neo-Liberal
Restructuring of the State 13. Democratisation
and Development 14. Global Governance, Good
Governance and the Third World State
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Environmental perspectives on development

• Focus on relationships between development and
  the environment the consequences of development
  on the environment, environmental constraints to
  development and problems of development in
  marginal environments
• Key theoretical approaches sustainability,
  population, colonialism
• Policy debates wildlife and parks, water,
  climate change, sustainable livelihoods
• 1 hour lecture and 1 hour seminar each week
• Assessed by a 3,000 word on a topic of your
  choice relating to course themes

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Environmental perspectives on development
course themes

• From Development to Sustainable Development
• European perspectives on nature
• Colonialism, soil erosion and conservation
• Historical perspectives on women and the
  environment
• Population and environment theories and
  case-studies
• Water scarcity and rights
• Drylands and pastoralism
• Managing wildlife people, parks and CBNRM
• Climate change and development
• Contemporary approaches to environment and
  development SLAs and MDGs

6
Health and Development Poverty and
illness State violence and individual
suffering Population control and rights to
health Migrant health Organ donation and
ethics HIV/Aids and health intervention Mental
illness Homelessness
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Social Change and Development
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What is the Course About?

• Understanding processes of social change
• - Social change as independent from planned
• development
• - the social impact of planned development.
• Theories of social change, Eg.
• - the dominance of the modernisation paradigm
• - the dependency school and post-colonial
  response
• to modernisation theory.
• Changing social relations, hierarchies,
  stratification (class, gender, religion, cultural
  ties) and livelihoods
• The role of the state in development. Is the
  state necessary for development ? State-led
  national development v. the global market.

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• The course is structured around a series of
  topics central to
• understanding social change and development
• interventions in the contemporary world. These
  include
• The role of international migration.
• Urbanisation, the shift from urban to rural
  poverty and the growth of modern mega-cities such
  as Lagos, Mumbai, Shanghai or Mexico City.
• Youth and age the role of children in
  development, issues surrounding child labour the
  relationship between youth, political unrest and
  social change.
• The role of religion in development and the
  impact of social change on religious affiliation.
• Violence, conflict and social change

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Gender and Development

• Topics include
• Rethinking the Household
• Gender division of Labour
• Deconstructing Gender Myths
• Migration nannies, maids, domestic work
• Health, Men and Development
• For more information, please see Dr Pamela Kea,
  Thursday 14 Feb in Arts C248