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Présentation
There are no specific requirements for this course, although it has been developed for ESPOL students who took either Intro to PE or IPE in the second year. To make it accessible to exchange students and ESPOL students who were in exchange last year, some basic topics will be reintroduced.
Politics of Development (POD)
Academic Year 2022/2023, Autumn Term
Lecturer: Dr Deborah Galimberti
deborah.galimberti@lacatholille.fr
I am a resource for you, so please do not hesitate to get in contact with me by email. I try to answer within 24h. Office hours: by appointment (Friday 4-5 PM, online)
Tutorials Instructor: Dr Mohamed Ismail Sabry
misabry@hotmail.com
Teaching methods: one weekly lecture and one weekly tutorial
Course description and objectives
This course aims to introduce theories and policies of development. It will review the main development theories from modernization to dependency and post-colonial thinking, while also providing examples of how these theories have informed the debates in global and national epistemic communities and the categories of practice of policymakers, community and grassroots actors in different regional areas worldwide. Students will develop analytical skills by adopting a perspective focused on the politics of knowledge production on development. The course aims to develop critical and analytical capacities by familiarizing students to putting in question development as an historical category and bridging these reflections with debates on the changes of contemporary capitalism. Development studies is a cross-disciplinary field crosscut by theoretical tensions and controversies (institutionalism, Marxism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, etc.). The course will offer a pluralist view of these perspectives, while encouraging students to acknowledge and recognize the theoretical and sometimes, normative, underpinnings of development ideas and practices.
Skills
- Capacity to analyze together theories and policies of development
- Capacity to contextualize knowledge on development in time and space
- Capacity to think relationally (North-South / global-local)
Pedagogical format
The course is organized around 8 main lectures of 3h each and a weekly tutorial (2h).
For the main lecture, everyweek you have one or two 'required readings' available on iCampus. Readings are the basis of all learning. You are warmly welcomed to ask questions, actively participate in class and take notes. During class, we will also comment your individual assignment on ‘media traces’ to link theories and concepts to recent events.
Course assessment
Assessement of the course unit (CU) are the following:
final written exam (essay) (50%), which will cover all the main lecture as well as tutorial readings
contrôle continu (50%) composed by:
- a collective exercise, policy-brief (tutorial), 80%
- an individual assignment ‘media traces’ (mid-term), 20%
Instructions on the assignments are presented in the detailed syllabus (iCampus) and will be explained also in the first session.
Course outline (short)
First part: Theories of development
1. The field of ‘development studies and epistemic authority
2. Classical approaches to development (modernization and dependency)
3. Development in crisis and post-development
Second part: Globalization debates
4. The ‘globalization project’ under strain and the role of the state
5. Global values chains, inequalities and social mobilizations
6. Democracy and development
Third part: Development challenges
7. Urbanization and uneven spatial development
8. Ecological crisis and final questions
Modalités
Lectures : weekly lecture (3 hours)
Tutorial (TD): weekly tutorial (2 hours)
Ressources
Development studies is a cross-disciplinary field (anthropology, economics, history, geography, political science, sociology). In the course we will cite different examples of regional areas worldwide. You can read peer-review articles in leading journals cited below to complement the lecture notes. The following textbooks are particularly useful for having a global overlook of the field:|| <b>Handbooks and general readings</b>|| Crush, J. (1995) (eds.) <i>Power of Development</i>, London, Routledge (introduction)|| Bishop, M. (2018), « Croissance et développement », in Hay C., Smith A. (eds.), <i>Dictionnaire d’économie politique. Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs</i>, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po. p. 149-162. DOI : 10.3917/scpo.smith.2018.01.0149.|| Desai, V., Potter, R. (eds.) (2014) <i>The companion to development studies</i> (third edition), London, Routledge.|| Escobar, A. (2012), <i>Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the Third World</i>, Princeton, Princeton University Press.|| *Grugel, J., Hammett, D. (2016) (eds.) <i>The Palgrave Handbook of International Development.</i> London, Palgrave Macmillan.|| Kothari, U., Minogue, M. (2002) <i>Development theory and practice. Critical perspectives, </i>New York, Palgrave.|| McMichael, P., Weber, H. (2022), <i>Development and Social Change. A Global Perspective</i> (Seventh ed.), Los Angeles, SAGE.|| *Rist G. (2019), <i>The History of Development. </i><i>From Western origins to Global Faith</i> (Fith ed.), London, ZED Books (en français: <i>Le Développement. Histoire d’une croyance occidentale</i>, Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, available on CAIRN)|| Robinson, J. (2006), <i>Ordinary cities. Between modernity and development</i>, London, Routledge.|| Trigilia, C. (2002), <i>Economic Sociology. State, Market and Society in Contemporary Capitalism</i>, London, Blackwell.|| <b>Academic journals</b>|| Competition & Change|| Critique Internationale|| Development in Practice|| Development and Change|| International Journal of Urban and Regional Research|| Journal of Rural Studies|| New Political Economy|| Regional Studies|| Studies in Comparative International Development|| The Journal of Development Studies|| Third World Quarterly|| World Development||