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COS3430

The third world

M Stevenson

8 points
* 2 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives Students can expect to develop: an understanding of the inequalities between the world's nations; an understanding of how the structure of global inequality effects different human groups in different ways; an increased awareness of the long-term historical, cultural, political, and economic forces which created and continue to create global inequalities; critical evaluative skills with regard to theoretical models which strive to explain unequal development; an enhanced crosscultural knowledge about the dynamics of unequal development and its primary consequences; and an understanding of Third World writers' views about these abovementioned issues.

Synopsis This subject takes as its central themes the social consequences of economic development. It therefore examines the question of the emergence of industrial capitalism and how through colonialism the twin seeds of capitalism and underdevelopment were sown in the third world. It also examines the response of the third world to these transformations.

Assessment Two essays (3000 words): 50% each

Recommended texts

Amin S Unequal development Harvester, 1976

Amin S Delinking: Towards a polycentric world Zed, 1990

Brewer A Marxist theories of imperialism RKP, 1991

Galeano E Memory of fire Quartet, 1989

Hobsbawm E The age of revolution Mentor, 1962

Peet R Global capitalism: Theories of societal development RKP, 1991

Rodney W How Europe underdeveloped Africa Howard U P, 1983

Saadawi N The hidden face of Eve Zed, 1980

Said E Orientalism Pantheon, 1976

Sen A Hunger and public action OUP, 1990

Sen A Poverty and famines OUP, 1981

Shiva V Staying alive, women, ecology and development Zed, 1988

Williams E Capitalism and slavery Deutsch, 1981

Wilber C K The political economy of development and underdevelopment 1992


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