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                                     ZX500 Uneven Development


Classes:


EVERY OTHER THURSDAY 10am – 1pm, first lecture on 22nd of Sep


Z2 from 10-12am, Z4 from 12-1pm  Faculty of Science, Dep. of Geography, KOTLÁŘSKÁ 2


Course requirements: active participation at lectures and class discussions; 5-page final paper,
topic approved by the lecturer, written test at the end of the course.


Lecturer: Alice Navrátilová, 19016@mail.muni.cz, 0042 732 456 574


Lecture 1 Patterns of Uneven Development, measurements of inequality, comparison of different
scales,  the dynamics of uneven development


Lecture 2 – Development: why multiple definitions? Classification of development paradigms
according to Nederveen Pieterse, overview of different approaches  - Potter.


1)     OCAMPO, A.J.; VOS.R. (2008): Uneven Economic Development, New York: United Nations.
Chapter1.


2)     PIETERSE, N.J.: Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions, London . SAGE
Publications, 2001, str. 1-17, 150-169.


3)     Power point presentation: Geographies of Uneven development


Accessible in study materials – folder: FIRST UNIT READINGS; /el/1431/podzim2011/ZX500/27583212/


Further readings:


DESAI, V.; POTTER, R.B.(2008): The Companion to Development Studies, London: Hodder Education.


Entries: DODDS, K.: The Third World, Developing Countries, the South, Poor Countries, pp. 3-7, in:
DESAI, V.; POTTER, R.B.(2008): The Companion to Development Studies, London: Hodder Education.


WHITE, H.: The measurement of poverty, pp. 25-29, in: DESAI, V.; POTTER, R.B.(2008): The Companion
to Development Studies, London: Hodder Education.




6^th of Oct, 10am!


Lecture 3

Approaches to development – Overview of post-war policy approaches

Readings:

THOERBECKE, E.: The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005, in: Mavrotas, (2007):
Advancing Development, United University Press. Str. 1-36.


Lecture 4

Mainstream approaches 1940s-70s.

BROHMAN, J.(1995): Popular Development, Basil Blackwell,

Preston, P.W. (1996): Development Theory, Blackwell Publishers, 213-233.




Lecture 5  Development impasse, development theory in the 1980s


Lecture 6 Neoliberalism, debt crisis

DUNKLEY, G. (2004): Free Trade, Myth, Reality, and Alternatives, Zed Books, 1-47.

BROHMAN, J.(1995): Popular Development, Basil Blackwell, 132-172.


Optional reading:

NORTH, D. (1995): The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development , str. 1-26,  HARRIS,
J; HUNTER, J.; LEWIS, C.M. (eds.) The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development,
Routledge, London, 1995.


Lecture 7+8

Post-development

ESCOBAR, A.: Development Planning, in: SACHS (ed.) (1992): The Development Dictionary: A Guide to
Knowledge as Power, London, Zed Books.

SHANIN, T. (1997): The Idea of Progress, str. 65-84, in: Rahnem, M. (ed.): The Post-development
Reader. Zed Books, London. 1997.

ESTEVA, G.(1992, 2001): Development , str. 6-25. in SACHS, W. (1992): The Development Dictionary, A
Guide to Knowledge as Power, Zed Books, London.





Lecture 9

Micro-approaches, basic needs approach, sustainability

BROHMAN, J.(1995): Popular Development, Basil Blackwell. p. 201-250.


Lecture 10

Rights-based approach, Millenium development goals

Readings:

WILSON, I. R. (ed.)(1997): Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives, Pluto
Press,str. 1-26.



Lecture 11 Participatory development

BOTES, L.; VAN RENSBURG, D.: Communitiy participation in Development: nine plagues and twelve
commandents, in: Community Development Journal; Jan 2000; 35,1. Academic Research Library, str.
41-58.


Lecture 12 Post-colonialism, orientalism

GANDHI, L. (1998): Postcolonial Theory: a critical introduction, Columbia University Press (1
chapter).



Lecture 13

Alternative development

Lecture 14


PIETERSE, N.J.: Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions, London : SAGE Publications,
2001, str. 99-112.

CARMEN, R. (1996): Autonomous Development, , Humanizingthe Landscape. London, Zed Books, 1996.P.
1-40.