Geographies of international development
GEOG 3682-001, Maymester 2008
MTWHF, 9 am-12:15 pm, RAMY N1B23
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_3682_sum08/
schedule
May 13 is the deadline to drop this course, or change your status to pass/fail or no credit. May 16 is the deadline to drop without petitioning the dean.
Readings are listed in the recommended reading sequence – it might help you connect the readings if you read in this order.
★ indicates an important non-reading assignment due.
| date | topic | due | |
| week 1 | 12 May | course introduction; what is development? |
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| 13 May | geographies of development [ film: TED Talks: Hans Rosling (20min) ] |
☐ Crush. 1995. “Imagining development.” [PDF] ☐ Sachs, Mellinger, and Gallup. 2001. “The geography of poverty and wealth.” [PDF] ☐ Friedman. 2005. “It’s a flat world, after all.” [PDF] ☐ Blaut. 1999. “Environmentalism and Eurocentrism.” [PDF] ☐ Broad and Cavanagh. 2006. “The hijacking of the development debate.” [PDF] ☐ Porter and Sheppard. 1998. “Introduction.” [PDF] |
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| 14 May | development as project [ film: Sacred lands (11 min) ] |
☐ Ferguson and Lohmann. 1994. “The anti-politics machine.” [PDF] ☐ McMichael. 2004. “Instituting the development project.” [PDF] ☐ Escobar. 1992. “Planning.” [PDF] ☐ Porter and Sheppard. 1998. “Culture, kinship, and gender.” [optional] [PDF] ☐ Porter and Sheppard. 1998. “The inevitability of differences.” [PDF] ☐ Wallerstein. 2001. “Development: lodestar or illusion?” [optional] [PDF] |
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| 15 May | development as colonialism [ film clip: The battle of Algiers (60 min) ] |
☐ Wallerstein. 2001. “Does India exist?” [PDF] ☐ Wainaina. 2005. “How to Write About Africa.” [PDF] ☐ Shrestha. 1995. “Becoming a development category.” [PDF] ☐ Hall. 1995. “The West and the rest: discourses and power.” [PDF] |
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| 16 May | development as modernization [ film: Life and debt (83min) ] |
☐ Scott. 1998. “Authoritarian high modernism.” [PDF] ☐ Willis. 2005. “Classical and neo-liberal development theories.” [PDF] ☐ Sachs. 2005. “Why some countries fail to thrive.” [PDF] ☐ ★ country report, section 1 |
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| week 2 | 19 May | development as neoliberalization and democratization [ film: Maquilapolis (60 min) ] |
☐ Willis. 2005. “Globalization and development.” [PDF] ☐ Harvey. 2005. A brief history of neoliberalism. p1-4, chp 4. [PDF] ☐ Amin. 2004. The liberal virus. p7-11. [PDF] |
| 20 May | development actors [ guest: Global Greengrants ] |
☐ Peet. 2003. “The Washington-Wall Street alliance.” [PDF] ☐ Global Greengrants Fund, “Grant model.” [PDF] ☐ Global Greengrants Fund, “Grants.” (http://www.greengrants.org/simplesearch.php) [PDF] ☐ Grant and Nijman. 2004. “The re-scaling of uneven development in Ghana and India.” [PDF] ☐ Petras. 1997. “Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America.” [PDF] ☐ McNally. 2004. “Sichuan: driving capitalist development westward.” [optional] [PDF] |
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| 21 May | food and health [ films: Black gold (74min) ] |
☐ Agustín. 2006. “Contributing to ‘Development.’” [PDF] ☐ Watts. 2001. “Black acts.” [PDF] ☐ Momsen. 1991. Women and Development in the Third World. p1-27. [PDF] ☐ Cheru. 2002. “Debt, adjustment and the politics of effective response to HIV/AIDS in Africa.” [PDF] |
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| 22 May | wealth and poverty [ films: B.A.T.A.M. (33 min) ] |
☐ Collier. 2007. “Falling behind and falling apart.” [PDF] ☐ Latouche. 1992. “Standard of living.” [PDF] ☐ Davis. 2006. “Planet of Slums.” [PDF] ☐ Unwin. 2007. “No end to poverty.” [PDF] |
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| 23 May | natural resources and the environment [ film: Manufactured landscapes (60 min) ] |
☐ Willis. 2005. “Environment and development theory.” [PDF] ☐ Shiva. 1992. “Resources.” [PDF] ☐ Adams. 2001. “The dilemma of sustainability.” [PDF] ☐ Harris. 2005. “Navigating uncertain waters.” [optional] [PDF] ☐ ★ country report, section 2 |
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| week 3 | 26 May | Memorial Day (no class) |
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| 27 May | labor, migration and tourism [ film: Global villages (59min) ] |
☐ Porter and Sheppard. 1998. “Institutional/structural inequalities.” [PDF] ☐ Silvey. 2004. “Transnational migration and the gender politics of scale.” [PDF] ☐ Sofield and Li. 1998. “Tourism development and cultural policies in China.” [PDF] |
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| 28 May | interventions and alternatives |
☐ Willis. 2005. “Structuralism, neo-Marxism, and socialism.” [PDF] ☐ Escobar. 1995. “Conclusion: imagining a postdevelopment era.” [PDF] ☐ Smil. 2004. “Looking ahead by looking back.” [optional] [PDF] ☐ McGee. 1995. “Eurocentrism and geography.” [PDF] |
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| 29 May | duties to the distant; regional presentations |
☐ Sachs. 2005. “Why we should do it.” [PDF] ☐ Jamieson. 2005. “Duties to the distant.” [PDF] ☐ ★ regional presentation |
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| 30 May | regional presentations; beginning again |
☐ Illich. 1968. “To hell with good intentions.” [PDF] ☐ Collier. 2007. “An agenda for action.” [PDF] ☐ ★ regional presentation ☐ ★ country report, section 3 ☐ ★ complete development portfolio |