GYM5100

Development studies and development planning in an era of global crisis

Dr Damian Kingsbury

12 points -2 hours per week -First semester -Clayton -Prerequisites: Major sequence in geography or permission of head of department

Objectives On successful completion of this subject students should have an understanding 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 Essay (3000 words): 30% -Research report (6000 words): 70%

Recommended texts

Apthorpe R and Krahl A Development studies: Critique and renewal 1986
Blomstrom M and Hettne B Development theory in transition 1984
Emmerij L (ed.) Development policies and the crisis of the 1980s 1987
Hettne B Development theory and the three worlds 1990
Porter D and others Development in practice: Paved with good intentions 1991
Spybey A Social change, development and dependency: Modernity, colonialism and the development of the West 1992

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