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Check this location frequently for a updates on our scheduled discussion topics and discussion leaders. All readings listed on the schedule are available on closed reserve in the library.
1/6 Introduction and overview of issues
I: Conceptions and Models of "Development"
1/8 Classic development models and their critics
Rich, Mortgaging the Earth, Ch. 8
Wiarda, "Ethnocentrism and Third World development" in Society 24(1987): 55-64
Selection of the following:
Rostow, "The Stages of Economic Growth"
Inkeles, "Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change
in Six Developing Countries
Frank, "The Development of Underdevelopment"
Benería and Sen, "Accumulation, Reproduction, and Women's Role in Economic
Development: Boserup Revisited"
If you haven't studied development theory in any previous courses, see Preston,
Development Theory: An Introduction, Part III, for an overview of theoretical models.
See also reading list of "classic" statements on Supplementary Bibliography
1/13 From world systems to globalization
Wallerstein, "The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: concepts for
comparative analysis" in Comparative Studies in Society and History 15(1974): 387-415 OR
Chase-Dunn and Rubinson, "Cycles, Trends, and New Departures in World-System
Development" in Meyer and Hannan (eds), National Development and the World System.
McMichael, "Globalization: Myths and Realities"
Also, browse articles in The Journal of World System Research
1/15 New Directions: Globalization, Political Ecology, New Social Movements
Redclift, "Sustainable development and popular participation" in Ghai and Vivian,
Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development, pp. 23-49
Blaikie and Brookfield, "Defining and debating the problem" in
Blaikie and Brookfield (eds.), Land Degradation and Society
Escobar, "Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing
of development anthropology" in American Ethnologist 18 (1991): 658-682
Recommended:
Peet and Watts, "Liberation Ecology" in Peet and Watts (eds.) Liberation Ecologies
Little and Painter, "Discourse, politics, and the development process:
reflections on Escobar's 'Anthropology and the development encounter'"
I will be out of town during the week of Jan. 20-24. Read Ahead!
II. The "Peasant," Agricultural Change, and Development
1/27 "Peasants," peasant resistance, and the origins of the Third World
Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant, pp. 1-34 (Introduction & Ch. 1)
Scott, Weapons of the Weak, pp. 28-41
de Janvry, "The political economy of rural development in Latin America: an interpretation"
in Eicher and Staatz (eds.), Agricultural Development in the Third World, pp. 82-95
"Agricultural development ideas in historical perspective" by Staatz and Eicher in
Agricultural Development in the Third World, pp. 8-38
Recommended:
Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, Preface, Ch. 9;
See also one of the main case studies: India (Chs. 1, 5, 10), China (pp. 64-79,
177-188, and Ch. 11), or Brazil (pp. 79-90, 188-195, and Ch. 12)
Waterbury, "'Lo que dice el mercado': Development without developers in a Oaxaca
Peasant community" in Loker (ed.), Globalization and the Rural Poor in Latin America
Bebbington, "Movements, Modernizations, and Markets: Indigenous organizations and
agrarian strategies in Ecuador" in Peet and Watts, Liberation Ecologies
1/29 Case study
Schroeder, Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
III. The State and the Global Economy
2/3 The role(s) of the state (Rud)
Gereffi, "The elusive last lap in the quest for developed-country status"
in Mittelman (ed.), Globalization, pp. 53-82
Evans, "Predatory, developmental, and other apparatuses"
in Kincaid and Portes, Comparative National Development
Case studies:
Cortés, "Argentina: State Policy and the Urban Labor Market"
OR Díaz, "Chile: Neoliberal Policy, Socioeconomic Reorganization and
the Urban Labor Market" inTardanico and Menjívar Larín, Global Restructuring,
Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America
Amsden, "The state and Taiwan's economic development" in
Evans et al., eds., Bringing the State Back In, pp. 78-106
Boone, "The making of a rentier class: wealth accumulation and political control in Senegal"
in Journal of Development Studies 26(3): 425-449
2/5 The informal sector (Kate F.)
Portes and Schauffler, "Competing perspectives on the Latin American informal sector,"
in Population and Development Review 19(1993), pp. 33-60
Case studies to be determined
Recommended: Verschoor, "Identity, networks, and space" in Long and Long (eds.),
Battlefields of Knowledge, pp. 171-188
2/10 Midterm Break - no class
2/12 Women and industry (Paulina and Kate C.)
Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle OR Tiano, Patriarchy on the Line
Ward and Pyle, "Gender, Industrialization, Transnational Corporations, and
Development: An Overview of Trends and Patterns"
Recommended:
Lim, "Women's work in export factories: the politics of a cause" in Tinker, ed.,
Persistent Inequalities, p. 101-119
IV. Current Issues
2/17 The debate about the 'informal' sector and micro-credit (Julia)
Movie: "Local Heroes"
Hulme and Mosley, "Finance for the poor or poorest?" in Wood and Sharif (eds.),
Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh, pp. 97-130.
Other readings from Hulme and Mosley, to be determined
Hashemi et al., "Rural credit programs and women's empowerment" in
World Development 24(1996), pp. 635-53
Rogaly, "Micro-finance evangelism, 'destitute women', and the hard selling of a
new anti-poverty formula" in Development in Practice
See also the web site on micro-finance Virtual Library on Microcredit.
2/19 The role(s) of ngos (or other)
2/24 The Controvery over International Development Banks and IMF (Chris B.)
Movie: "Our Friends at the Bank"
Rich, Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development
Culpeper, Titans or Behemoths?, Chapters 2, 4, 6, 7
See also web sites for the World Bank,Inter-American Development Bank, and Asian Development Bank
2/26 Ecology, indigenous rights, and the struggle for resource control
Movie: "Trinkets and Beads"
Maybury-Lewis, "Demystifying the second conquest" in Schmink and Wood,
Frontier Expansion in Amazonia,
India case studies:
Rangan, "From Chipko to Uttaranchal," in Peet and Watts (eds.), Liberation Ecologies,
Fisher, "Development and resistance in the Narmada Valley"
in Fisher (ed.),Toward Sustainable Development
Bandyopadhyay, "From environmental conflicts to sustainable mountain transformation"
in Ghai and Vivian (eds.), Grassroots Environmental Action
Latin American case studies:
Turner, "An indigenous people's struggle for socially equitable and ecologically sustainable production,"
in Journal of Latin American Anthropology 1(1995): 98-121
Jackson, "Culture, genuine and spurious: the politics of indianness in the Vaupes, Colombia"
in American Ethnologist 22(1995): 3-27
Rudel et al., "Ecologically Noble Amerindiands? Cattle Ranching and Cash Cropping
among Shuar and Colonists in Ecuador" Latin American Research Review 27: 144-159
3/3 Alternative models (Chris T.)
3/5 Countermovements, social movements, and NGOs: Problems and prospects
Edelman, Peasants Against the State
3/10 Wrap-up
Following is a list of resources on the World Wide Web that you will find useful for this course. Be sure to begin with the guide to research resources prepared by the Carleton College Library for this class (coming soon!). This guide covers both electronic and non-electronic sources, that you will need to use for your research. The Carleton Library also provides information on how to cite web sources that you use in your term papers.
Below, I have listed some web sites that will be helpful in getting you started on your research. Most of these web pages have been created by organizations involved in financing or carrying out development projects, or organizations that monitor the environmental, social, and human rights impacts of development policies and activities. A few of these sites provide bibliographic references or statistical databases. If you find additional sites that are particularly useful and pertinent to this course, please let me know. A general point to keep in mind as you surf the Web is that internet sources are not meant to be a substitute for academic journals and books. Rather, they are a valuable supplement that can provide information not available elsewhere.
General web sites and directories
Many of the governmental, international, and non-governmental organizations involved in development activities also maintain web sites. These organizations typically include information about their goals and philosophy. They also often include descriptions of current programs and projects. Some international and governmental organizations allow searches of their statistical databases and lists of publications. A few include links to other related sites.
International Organizations:
International development agencies of national governments:
A sampling of quasi- and non-governmental organizations that work on development and related issues, and provide information about their projects:
Electronic journals, newsletters, and other pages of interest:
Selecting a Topic
Your paper may focus on any topic of your choosing, that fits within the subject matter and objectives of this course. It may focus on a particular country, a particular project, or on a theory, scholarly debate, or policy issue. There is no single theoretical approach that you must take in your paper--although the paper should be analytical, rather than simply descriptive. Some possible topics (including some from previous years' classes):
There are many other topics that would be appropriate. Plan on consulting me before you turn in your prospectus.
Prospectus
Your prospectus should include:
The prospectus should be about 1-2 pages in length and is due Wednesday, February 19.
Format for Papers
Your paper should be prepared according to standard academic guidelines. That is:
Examples of citations in the body of the paper:
"Wallerstein (1974) argues that...."
"According to Escobar (1991: 658),..."
"Several authors have discussed the notion of the predatory state (Boone 1990, Evans 1995)."
Examples of references in a bibliography:
Escobar, Arturo. 1991. "Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology." American Ethnologist 18: 658-682. Safa, Helen I. and Peggy Antrobus. 1992. "Women and the economic crisis in the Caribbean." Pp. 49-82 in Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work, edited by L. Beneria and S. Feldman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press.
To cite electronic sources, consult Carleton
Library instructions on citing web sources.
For more examples, consult any issue of American Sociological Review. If you prefer, you may use any of several acceptable citation styles--but be consistent throughout your paper! Consult the Chicago Manual of Style, or any of the major academic journals for further guidelines.
Due: Tuesday, March 11, 4:30 p.m. (in my office, Willis 403)
Last modified: January14, 2003
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