ZX500 Uneven Development: Theories and Geographies

Faculty of Science
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/1. 7 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Alice Navrátilová (lecturer)
Mgr. Eva Malířová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D.
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:50 Z2,01032
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
ZX500/01: Mon 16:00–16:50 Z2,01032, P. Daněk, A. Navrátilová
Prerequisites
PROGRAM(N-GK) || PROGRAM(CUS) || SOUHLAS
(upper) intermediate level of English; both reading and writing in English
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course provides insights into global inequalities as historically and socio-economically generated patterns of uneven development. The course combines analytical approaches of geography of development as well as normative approaches of development studies as efforts to remedy the harshest impacts of inequalities thus generated. The main development paradigms are presented as embedded in institutions that adopt particular approaches (theories-institutions link; that is the etnography of institutions). Critical and evidence-based approaches (case studies) provide informed understanding of uneven development on several levels, from local to global impacts.
Syllabus
  • 1) Conceptualizing Development I: Meanings of Development
  • Reading: pp.5-30 Potter, R.; Binns. T.; Elliot. J.; Smith.D.(2008) Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies.
  • 2) Historical embeddedness of inequalities: Legacies of Colonialism
  • reading: pp. 47 - 77 Potter, R.; Binns. T.; Elliot. J.; Smith.D.(2008) Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies.
  • 3) The Birth of the Development Discourse
  • Reading: Escobar, A. (1995): Encountering Development. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. pp. 3-25.
  • 4) Development paradigms
  • pp. 150-170 Pieterse, J. N. (2001): Development Theory: Deconstructions/ Reconstructions.
  • 5) Conceptualizing Development II: Theories and Strategies of Development
  • Reading: pp.79-110 Potter, R.; Binns. T.; Elliot. J.; Smith.D.(2008) Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies.
  • 6) Global Architecture of Development: knowledge-power-institution axis.
  • Riddell, R. C. (2008): Does Foreign Aid Really Work? pp.25-40.
  • 7) Modernization school, Dependency school
  • Preston, P. W. (1996): Development Theory.
  • 8)Global Civil Society and Alternative Development
  • Reading: pp. 1-25 Bebbington, J: (2007) Can NGOs make a difference?
  • 9)Methodologies of Development: project cycle management and logical framework analysis
  • Reading: pp. 2-20 European Commission (2004): Project cycle management (PCM) Guidelines.
  • 10) Participatory Development
  • Reading: pp. 1-25 Moss, D. (2005): Cultivating Development: an ethnography of aid policy and practice.
  • 11) MDGs and other Global Initiatives, Debt Relief
  • Reading: MDG Yearbook; 2008.
  • 12) Sectoral analysis: Global politics of Health
  • Reading: pp. 17-40, Davies, S.E. (2010): Global Politics of Health.
Literature
    required literature
  • Potter, R.; Binns. T.; Elliot. J.; Smith.D.(2008) Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies, Essex, Pearson Publications.
  • EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2004): Project cycle management (PCM) Guidelines. External Cooperation Programmes: EuropeAid Cooperation Office, Brussel, http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/multimedia/publications/publications/manuals-tools/t101_en.htm.
    recommended literature
  • NEDERVEEN PIETERSE, J. N. (2001): Development Theory: Deconstructions Reconstructions. Delhi: Vistaar.
  • PRESTON, P. W. (1996): Development Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
  • RIDDELL, R. C. (2008): Does Foreign Aid Really Work? Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • MOSS, D. (2005): Cultivating Development: an ethnography of aid policy and practice. London: Pluto Press.
  • DAVIES, S.E. (2010): Global Politics of Health, Cambridge, Polity Press.
  • ANHEIER,H., GLASIUS, M. and KALDOR, M. (2005) (eds) Global Civil Society 2004/05, London: Sage.
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, readings, final course paper
Assessment methods
final written test, one paper (1500 words), active participation in the class discussion, presentation of the paper theme during the term - active feedback for improved outcome
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
General note: významnou součástí výuky je samostatná četba (cca 250-300 stran AJ) – proto je za ukončení vyšší počet kreditů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Spring 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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