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240047 VS One Strategy, Many Worlds: the Developmental State in Anthropological Perspective (3.3.1) (2014S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Participation at first session is obligatory!
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Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 10.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 17.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 24.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 31.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 07.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 28.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 05.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

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.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The final grade will represent an overall evaluation of class participation, class presentation, and term paper.

1. Class participation means actively taking part in seminar discussions

2. Class presentation includes both the written hand out (which is sent to the instructor via e-mail at least 24 hours before the presentation) as well as the oral presentation during the seminar. Ideally, the presentation of a key reading should include a summary of the text, the main thesis of the text, comments on the text and questions vis-à-vis the topic that the text introduces.

3. Term Paper should be between 2000 and 2500 words and refer to one or several topics we touched upon during the seminar. It is advisable that students discuss and consult with the instructor regarding the choice of their topic. Whenever possible, the instructor will try to offer additional material that is not available in the library.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Participants:

will differentiate and historicize various developmental strategies

will be familiar with the evolution of development research within anthropology and other disciplines

will be able to critically engage the relationship between anthropology and development

Prüfungsstoff

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.

Literatur

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.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39