DSM5000

Development studies and development planning in an era of global crisis

Damien Kingsbury

12 points -2 hours per week -First semester -Clayton

Objectives On successful completion of this subject students should have an undertanding of the complex and interrelated factors affecting the third world in 1990s, and in particular the economic, social, political and strategic factors which have brought crisis to many of the poorer countries of the world.

Synopsis The subject will consider the implications for the study of development and of development theory of a number of the global crises of the 1990s. The major topics include the end of the Cold War, militarism in the third world, population growth, third world debt, gender and development, ethnicity and nationalism and religious fundamentalism.

Assessment Report (3000 words): 33% -Research essay (6000 words): 67%

Recommended texts

Brohman, J Popular development: Rethinking the theory and practice of development 1996
Cowen M P and Shentan R W Doctrines of development 1996
Handelman H The challenge of third world development 1996
Hettne B Development theory and the three worlds 2nd edn, 1995
Porter D, Allen B and Thompson G Development in practice: Paved with good intentions 1991
Rapley J Understanding development: Theory and practice in the third world 1996
Schuurman F Beyond the impasse: New directions in development theory 1993
Spybey A Social change, development and dependency: Modernity, colonialism and the development of the West 1992

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