Instructor: Hatice Deniz Yükseker
M, T, W: 11:00-11:50 am, 234 Ames Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 3:30-5:30 pm at 532 Mergenthaler Hall, and by appointment
e-mail: deniz@jhu.edu
office phone: 516-7098
Office: 203 Greenhouse
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to problems of inequality in wealth and welfare from a global, comparative, and historical perspective. The causes and consequences of inequalities among countries, as well as gender, class, ethnic and regional stratification, are examined. Major theoretical perspectives on international development and global social change are studied and applied to an analysis of contemporary social issues.
REQUIREMENTS: Regular attendance and active participation in discussions are essential for your performance in this course. You should read the weekly assignments before each class. There will be one take-home midterm exam, one research assignment and a take-home final paper. You’ll also write short reviews of two of the five films that will be shown in class. The dates of exams and assignments are indicated on the course schedule.
Grade breakdown:
Take-home Midterm Exam: 25 percent
Assignment (5 double-spaced pages): 30 percent
Two film reviews (1-2 double-spaced pages): 10 percent
Take-home final (10-12 double-spaced pages): 35 percent
ETHICS: The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this course, you must be honest and truthful. Ethical violations include cheating on exams, plagiarism, reuse of assignments, improper use of the Internet and electronic devices, unauthorized collaboration, alteration of graded assignments, forgery and falsification, lying, facilitating academic dishonesty, and unfair competition. For more information, visit the Ethics Board Web site at http://ethics.jhu.edu.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES: The following books are for sale at the
Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change, 2nd ed., 2000.
John Isbister, Promises not Kept, 5th ed., 2001.
Alan Thomas,
WEEK I: What is Development?
January 27: Introduction
January 28: Promises not Kept: Chapters 1, 2
January 29:
*World Development Report 2001/2, pp. 3-5 (handout)
WEEK II: Colonization and the Colonial
Division of Labor
February 3: Promises not Kept: Chapter 4
Development and Social Change: pp. 3-24
February 4: Discussion
February 5: *Stuart Hall: “The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power,” in Modernity. An Introduction to Modern Societies, pp. 184-227 (folder).
WEEK III: Developmentalism
February 10: Promises not Kept, Chapter 5
February 11: Film: “From the Barrel of a Gun”
February 12: Development and Social Change, pp. 25-76
Promises not Kept, pp. 145-163
*Arturo Escobar: “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development” in Encountering Development, pp. 21-54 (folder).
WEEK IV: Approaches to Development
February 17: *W.W. Rostow: “The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto,” in T. Roberts and A. Hite, eds. From Modernization to Globalization, pp. 100-109 (folder).
*Andre Gunder Frank: “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in T. Roberts and A. Hite, eds. From Modernization to Globalization, pp. 159-168 (folder).
February 18: Film: “Profit and Nothing But”
February 19: *Immanuel Wallerstein: “Development: Lodestar or Illusion,” in Unthinking Social Science, pp. 104-124 (folder).
*Gary Gereffi:
“Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from
WEEK V: The Unraveling of Developmentalism and the Debt Crisis
February 24: Development and Social Change: pp. 79-112.
February 25: Discussion
February 26: Development and Social Change: pp. 113-146.
Promises not Kept: pp. 174-187.
WEEK VI: Review and Exam
March 3: Review
March 5: Film: “Who’s Counting?”
SPRING BREAK
WEEK VII: Gender and Development
March 17: *Naila Kabeer: selections from Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, TBA (book).
March 18: Discussion
March 19: *selections from The Women, Gender, and Development Reader, TBA (book).
*Barbara Duden: “Population,” in The Development Dictionary, pp. 146-157 (folder).
WEEK VIII: Development and the Environment
March 24: *Vandana Shiva: “Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity,” in Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader, pp. 193-213 (folder).
*Wolfgang Sachs: “Environment,” in The Development Dictionary, pp. 26-37 (folder).
March 25: Film: “Learning from Ladakh”
March 26: *Alex de Waal: “Introduction,” and “Retreat from Accountability: Neoliberalism and Adjustment,” in Famine Crimes, pp. 1-6 and 49-64 (folder).
WEEK IX: The Rise of the “
March 31: *Lance Taylor: “The Revival of the Liberal Creed – the IMF and the World Bank in a Globalized Economy,” World Development, vol. 25, no.2, 1997, pp. 145-52 (electronic journal).
Development and Social Change: pp. 149-237.
April 1: Film: “Our Friends at the Bank”
April 2: *Francis Fukuyama: “Social Capital, Civil Society and Development,” Third World Quarterly, vol.22, no.1, 2001, pp. 7-20 (electronic journal).
*Ben Fine: “The
WEEK X: Debates around the
April 7: *Ravi Kanbur: “Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements,” World Development, vol. 29, no. 6, 2001, pp. 1083-1093 (electronic journal).
*Robert Wade: “Making the World Development Report 2000: Attacking Poverty,” World Development, vol. 29, no. 8, 2001, pp. 1435-1441 (electronic journal).
April 8: Discussion
April 9: *Paul Cammack: “Attacking the Poor,” New Left Review, no. 13, 2002, pp. 125-134 (folder).
More readings TBA
WEEK XI: Challenges to “Globalization”
April 14 :
*Michael Hardt: “
*Immanuel Wallerstein: “New Revolts against the System,” New Left Review, no. 18, 2002, pp. 29-39 (folder and electronic journal).
April 15: Discussion
April 16: readings TBA on the World Social Forum and the Anti-Globalization Movement
WEEK XII: New Directions in Policy
April 21: *Alan Fowler: “NGDOs as a moment in history: beyond
aid to social entrepreneurship or civic innovation?” Third World Quarterly,
vol. 21, no. 4, 2000, pp. 637-654 (electronic journal).
* Aldaba, Antezana, Valderrama and Fowler: “NGO strategies beyond aid:
perspectives from Central and
April 22: Discussion: handouts to be distributed
April 23: *Govindan
Parayil: “The ‘Kerala
Model’ of Development: Development and Sustainability in the
*Muhammed Yunus: “Poverty Alleviation: Is Economics Any Help? Lessons from the Grameen Bank Experience,” Journal of International Affairs, vol.52, no.1, 1998, pp. 47-65 (folder).
WEEK XIII: Pressing Issues: Wars and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
April 27: *Fantu Cheru: “Debt, Adjustment and the Politics of Effective
Response to HIV/AIDS in
*Caroline Thomas: “Trade Policy and the Politics of Access to Drugs” Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. 251-264 (electronic journal).
April 28: *Sultan Barakat and Gareth Wardell: “Exploited by whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 5, 2002, pp. 909-930 (electronic journal).
*Jonathan Goodhand:
“Aiding Violence or Building Peace: The Role of International Aid in
April 29: Review and Evaluation