240047 VS One Strategy, Many Worlds: the Developmental State in Anthropological Perspective (3.3.1) (2014S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Sa 01.02.2014 00:01 to Su 23.02.2014 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 16.03.2014 23:59
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 10.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 17.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 24.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 31.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 07.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 28.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 05.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Despite its many failures, development programs continue to be enacted by states and various transnational and international agencies around the world in order to achieve economic growth, decrease inequality and alleviate poverty. This seminar explores anthropological theories and approaches in the study of development in order for students to gain a critical understanding of the history, the politics, and the practice of development on the ground. Its contemporary resilience calls for a serious engagement with questions of change and continuity and with what could constitute transformative politics today.
Assessment and permitted materials
The final grade will represent an overall evaluation of class participation, class presentation, and term paper.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Participants:will differentiate and historicize various developmental strategieswill be familiar with the evolution of development research within anthropology and other disciplineswill be able to critically engage the relationship between anthropology and development
Examination topics
Seminars will begin with a short introduction of the topic by the instructor and will be followed by presentations of the assigned readings. Students will present the readings and comment upon them, and together with the instructor engage the rest of the class in a common debate.
Reading list
Mandatory readings (to be divided by seminars)
James FERGUSON (1997) Anthropology and its evil twin: Development in the constitution of a discipline, In F. Cooper and R. Packard, International Development and the Social Sciences, 150-176.
Arturo ESCOBAR (1995) The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development, in A. Escobar, Encountering Development, 21-54.
Frederick COOPER (2010) Writing the history of development, Journal of Modern European History 8(1):5-23.
Dipesh CHAKRABARTY (2000) Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History, in D. Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe, 27-47.
Vivek CHIBBER (2013) Subaltern Studies as Ideology, In V. Chibber, Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital, 1-26, 284-296.
Ramon GROSFOGUEL (2008) Developmentalism, modernity and dependency theory in Latin America, in M. Morana, E. Dussel and C. Jauregui (eds) Coloniality at large, 307-331.
Tania MURRAY LI (1999) Compromising Power: Development, Culture, and Rule in Indonesia, Cultural Anthropology 14(3): 295-322.
James FERGUSON (2006) Global shadows. Africa in the neoliberal order, chapter 2 + 7.
Kate BROWN (2001) Why Kazakhstan and Montana are Nearly the Same Place, The American Historical Review, Vol. 106(1): 17-48
Julia ELYACHAR (2005) Markets of dispossession: chapter 6 & 7, 167-219.
James Howard SMITH Bewitching development: chapter 6 & 7, 179-240.
Thomas FAIST and Margit FAUSER (2013) The Migration-Development nexus: towards a transnational perspective in T. Faist et al. (eds) The migration development nexus. A transnational perspective: 1-26.
Ernesto CASTANEDA (2013) Living in Limbo: Transnational Households, Remittances and Development, International Migration 51 (special supplement): 13-35.
Jaime PALOMERA (2014) How did finance capital infiltrate the world of the urban poor? Homeownership and social fragmentation in a Spanish Neighborhood, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(1):218-235.
James FERGUSON (1997) Anthropology and its evil twin: Development in the constitution of a discipline, In F. Cooper and R. Packard, International Development and the Social Sciences, 150-176.
Arturo ESCOBAR (1995) The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development, in A. Escobar, Encountering Development, 21-54.
Frederick COOPER (2010) Writing the history of development, Journal of Modern European History 8(1):5-23.
Dipesh CHAKRABARTY (2000) Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History, in D. Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe, 27-47.
Vivek CHIBBER (2013) Subaltern Studies as Ideology, In V. Chibber, Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital, 1-26, 284-296.
Ramon GROSFOGUEL (2008) Developmentalism, modernity and dependency theory in Latin America, in M. Morana, E. Dussel and C. Jauregui (eds) Coloniality at large, 307-331.
Tania MURRAY LI (1999) Compromising Power: Development, Culture, and Rule in Indonesia, Cultural Anthropology 14(3): 295-322.
James FERGUSON (2006) Global shadows. Africa in the neoliberal order, chapter 2 + 7.
Kate BROWN (2001) Why Kazakhstan and Montana are Nearly the Same Place, The American Historical Review, Vol. 106(1): 17-48
Julia ELYACHAR (2005) Markets of dispossession: chapter 6 & 7, 167-219.
James Howard SMITH Bewitching development: chapter 6 & 7, 179-240.
Thomas FAIST and Margit FAUSER (2013) The Migration-Development nexus: towards a transnational perspective in T. Faist et al. (eds) The migration development nexus. A transnational perspective: 1-26.
Ernesto CASTANEDA (2013) Living in Limbo: Transnational Households, Remittances and Development, International Migration 51 (special supplement): 13-35.
Jaime PALOMERA (2014) How did finance capital infiltrate the world of the urban poor? Homeownership and social fragmentation in a Spanish Neighborhood, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(1):218-235.
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