Syllabus
I. Concepts, theory and methodology 1. Introduction: basic concepts (development, poverty, inequality, global South) 2. Theories of development (modernization, dependency, sustainable and human development, participative approaches, postdevelopment)
Reading 2a: Rostow, Walt W. [1960] The Stages of Economic Growth. In: DR.
Reading 2b: Escobar, Arturo [1995]: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. In: DR. 3. Methodology and methods of development studies (interdisciplinarity and normativity of development studies, qualitative measures, participative research, research biases and ethical issues)
Reading 3a: Mikkelsen, Britha (2005): Methods for development work and research: a new guide for practitioners. New Dehli: Sage, pp. 87-123.
Reading 3b: Narayan, Deepa at al. (1999): Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices From 57 Countries. Washington: The World Bank, pp. 26-51.
II. Disciplinary aspects of development and poverty 4. Economic foundations of development studies and their critique (development economics, macro and micro approaches to agricultural and informal markets, globalisation)
Presentation 4: Quantitative measures of poverty and inequality
Reading 4a: World Bank (2008) World Development Report 2008. Washington: The World Bank, pp. 26-44.
Reading 4b: Collier, Paul (2001): On Missing the Boat: The Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy. In: DR, pp. 491-500. 5. Structural inequalities of the global order (colonialism and its impacts, institutional framework for the movement of goods, services, capital, people and knowledge, Structural Adjustment Programmes)
Presentation 5: Colonialism and neocolonialism
Reading 5a: Greig, Alastair, David Hulme and Mark Turner (2007) Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 100-128.
Video 5b: National Labor Committee (2003): Hidden Face of Globalization, 34 minutes. 6. The dominant development paradigm (Millennium Development Goals, regional differences, critique, post-MDGs)
Presentation 6: Case study on MDGs in country perspective
Reading 6a: United Nations (2012): The Millennium Development Goals Report 2012. New York: United Nations.
Reading 6b: Ziai, Aram (2011) The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future? Third World Quarterly 32(1):27-43. 7. Politics, culture and development (cultural aspects of development, anthropology and development, politics and development)
Presentation 7: Developmental state and failed state (two case studies)
Reading 7a: Miner, Horace (1956) "Body ritual among the Nacirema" American Anthropologist 58(3): 503-507.
Reading 7b: Ferguson, James (1997) The Anti-politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. In: DR. 8. Gender, human rights, environment and development (gender and human rights aspects of development, development and environment, including climate change)
Presentation 8: Human rights and development, right to development, rights-based development
Video 8a: Plattner, Patricia (1998): Made In India: SEWA in Action.
Reading 8b: Dyson, Tim (2005) On Development, Demography and Climate Climate: The End of the World as We Know It. In. DR.
III. Development cooperation and case study 9. International development cooperation (definition, Official Development Assistance, typology, actors, trends, criticism)
Presentation 9: The role of OECD Development Assistance Committee in development cooperation
Reading 9a: OECD DAC (2012) Development Co-operation Report, pp. tba.
Reading 9b: Frank, Leonard (1997) The Development Game. In Majid Rahnema nad Victoria Bawtree (eds.): The Post-Development Reader London, Zed Books, pp. 263 - 273. 10. Multilateral and EU development policy (architecture, international organizations, poverty reduction strategies, EU development policy, policy coherence for development, notable traditional and new state and private donors)
Presentation 10: Chinese aid and Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation
Reading 10a. CONCORD (2012) AidWatch
Reading 10b. Two chapters from CONCORD (2011) Spotlight on EU Policy Coherence for Development 11. Development cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe (overview, specificity of the Czech development discourse, institutional frameworks, actors and relations, links to foreign policy, impacts)
Presentation 11: Quantitative analysis of the Czech Official Development Assistance
Reading 11a: Horký Ondřej (2010): Development Cooperation in the Czech Foreign Policy In: Michal Kořan (ed.): Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009: Analysis. Prague: Institute of International Relations, pp. 347-361.
Reading 11b: Horký Ondřej (2012): The Transfer of the Central and Eastern European ‘Transition Experience’ to the South: Myth or Reality? Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 13(1):17-32. 12. Case study of a Czech development project (presentation of a development project and its analysis by a development practitioner, discussion)
Reading 12: Tba as a background to the project presented
Annotation
This interdisciplinary course introduces students in development studies and it helps them to understand social changes in the global South as well as the transformations of North-South relations with a special focus on international development cooperation.