FSS:SOC711 Development studies - Course Information

SOC711 Development studies

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies

Prerequisites (in Czech)

četba v anglickém jazyce

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Sociology (programme FSS, B-SO)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to exlain and reflect on development as embedded in historical processes and its conterporary transformation. Students should understand and explain main development paradigms as well as connect them with key development actors. Students should be able to actively work with various development report and extract information for sectoral analysis and major problems facing development. Students should be able to create simple project proposition using the main methodology of development, project cycle management and logical framework analysis. Students should make reasoned decisions about the quality of the development project.

Syllabus

• The course deals critically with concept of developoment as global thinking and practice replicated and reinvented in contemporary world of high modernity. Key concepts of development thinking and practice, e.g. logic of authorative intervention, claims on definition of reality, classification of the socially constructed other as well as notion of power with which development is intrinsically connected, are dealt with. Postmodern encounters with development are then presented resulting in post-development rejection of the whole notion of development on the one hand and historical analysis in the form of new historicism on the other. Following the latter line of argument, the sequence of projects of colonialism and modernity is described culminating in the project of development thus understood as the extension of project of modernity to the then colonized other. The whole concept of development takes on a new form under current project of globalization as the deepening of the global problems makes issues of development relevant regardless of the North-South divide. Then, the practices of development are under close scrutiny, with the current trend of managerism as its most salient characteristics, generating in turn a strong response in anti-managerism approaches. The project cycle management with its logical framework analysis as the main methodology is challenged through the first-hand narratives of development experts with the devastating effect on the ennobled construction of ´local knowledge´. Practitioners stress that ´local knowledge´ is constructed in response to the development intervention, thus making it a prime candidate for science and technology studies analysis. Preponderance of linear thinking in development together with unflexible mental modeĺs of both development theorists as well as pracititioners paves the way for search of new impulses and alternatives in development thinking. Consequently, as the forth trend, the complex system theory is assessed both as a theoretical stimulus to development conceptualization as well as model building. Cautious conclusions are drawn as to the potential of complex system modelling, which at best could subsitute the current logical framework analysis. However, even this improvement does not solve deep controversies which develpoment is riddled with. In the last chapter, the potential for metamorphosis of dispositiv development´s spine cord knowledge, economics, is looked into via contributions of the new institutional economics.1) Projects of colonialism, modernity, development and globalization; The Birth of the Discourses – modern institutions and narrative spaces, systems of classification. Assigned readings: CARMEN, R. (1996): Autonomous Development, Humanizing the Landscape. London, Zed Books, 1996.P. 1-40. ALLEN, T.; THOMAS, A (2000).: Poverty and Development into the 21st century, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Recommended readings: NAVRÁTILOVA, A. (2008): Shaping of Modernity in the First World. In Approaching the Other: Four Projects of Western Domination. Olomouc : 2008. ISBN 978-80-244-2046-2, s. 61-70. NAVRÁTILOVÁ, A. (2008): Dispositif of Development and the Post-Impasse Debate. In Migration and Development. Ostrava : 2008. ISBN 978-80-7368-442-6, s. 110-123. 2) Project of Development, basic macro-approaches to development I Assigned readings: BROHMAN, J.(1995): Popular Development, Basil Blackwell, 9-70. GRILLO, R. (1997): Discourses of Development, The View from Anthropology, Oxford. ESCOBAR, A.: Development Planning, in: SACHS (ed.) (1992): The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, London, Zed Books. 3) Project of Development, basic macro-approaches to development I Assigned readings: THOERBECKE, E.: The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005, in: Mavrotas, (2007): Advancing Development, United University Press, New York. TISCH, S.; WALLACE. M.B. (1994): Dilemmas of development assistance: The What, Why and Who of Foreign Aid. Westview Press. Recommended readings: SHANIN, T. (1997): The Idea of Progress, in: Rahnem, M. (ed.): The Post-development Reader. Zed Books, London. 1997. 4) Theory of international trade – basic concepts Assigned readings: SALVATORE, D. (2006): International Economics, 8th edition. John Wiley, New Jersey. pp.. 1-109; 115-224. Recommended readings: CYPHER, J.M. DIETZ, J.L.: The Process of Economic Development, Routledge, London. 5) Critique of the Free Trade, Alter-global Alternatives, Global Civil Society I. Assigned readings: DUNKLEY, G. (2004): Free Trade, Myth, Reality, and Alternatives, Zed Books. Keane, MCMICHAEL, P. (1996) : Social change and development, Pine Forge Press, London, 1996. Human Development Report 2005. United Nations Development Programme, 2005. 6) Critique of the Free Trade, Alter-global Alternatives, Global Civil Society II. ANEHIER,, H.; GLASIUS, M.; KALDOR, M.: Introducing Global Civil Society, in: Global Civil Society Yearbook, accessible on: www.lse.co.uk. GEORGE, s. (2004): Another world is possible, Verso, London. 7) Micro-approaches to Development: basic needs approach, people-centred approach, rights based approach. Assigned readings: NYAMU-NUSEMBI, CORNWALL, A.(2004): What is rights-based approach all about? Working Paper, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. BROHMAN, J.(1995): Popular Development, Basil Blackwell. p. 201-250. 8) Participatory development Assigned readings: CARMEN, R. (1996): Autonomous Development, Humanizing the Landscape. London, Zed Books, 1996. UFFORD, P.G.; GIGI, K.A. (2003): A Moral Critique of Development, Routledge, London. 9) Post-colonial studies Assigned readings: SAID, E.(1978): Orientalism, Vintage Books, p. 1-72;, 201-225. Gandhi,L.(1998): Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, Columbia University Press. Recommended readings: Young, R.: White Mythologies. Routledge, London. 1990. 10) New Institutional Economics and Third World Development Assigned readings HARRISS, J.; HUNTER, J.; LEWIS, C.M. (1995): The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development Routledge, London. 11) Critique of Project Cycle Management Approach; Complex system theory alternative. Sterman, J. D. (2000): Business Dynamics: System Thinking and Modelling for a Complex World, Boston: McGraw-Hill. BYRNE, D.: Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: an introduction. London, Routledge, 1998. Assigned readings: Cornia, G.A.; Menchini, L.: Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the Last 40 Years, in. in: Mavrotas, (2007): Advancing Development, United University Press, New York. 12) Knowledge-development-power axis; WED, Millenium Development Goals. Assigned readings: Chamber, R.(1983): Rural Development, Putting the Last First, Longman Group. Braidotti, R,; Charkiewitzc, E. (1994): Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development. Towards a Theoretical Synthesis. Zed Books-INSTRAW, London. Millenium Development Goals Report, 2006. United Nations Development Programme.

Literature

• SAID, Edward W. Orientalismus : západní koncepce Orientu. Translated by Petra Nagyová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2008, 459 s. ISBN 9788071859215. info
• NEDERVEEN PIETERSE, Jan. Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2001, xii, 195. ISBN 0761952934. info
• BROHMAN, John. Popular development :rethinking the theory and practice of development. 1st pub. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996, 398 s. ISBN 1-55786-316-4. info
• SAID, Edward W. Culture & imperialism. Vintage ed. London: Vintage, 1994, xxxii, 444. ISBN 9780099967507. info
• PIETERSE, Jan Nederveen. White on black :images of Africa and blacks in western popular culture. 1st pub. New Haven: Yale university press, 1992, 259 s. ISBN 0-300-06311-3. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

aktivní účast v diskusích, 1 skupinový projekt, test v průběhu a na konci semestru

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.

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