Development Studies and Cultural Change (kiso enshû IV)

Tama Campus, Wednesdays, 6:10~7:40
The course description for this seminar is here.

November 9: Once again, as agreed, the seminar will meet on Friday (November 11) this week, from 3:00~4:30. My apologies again for the disruption. After this week and for the remainder of the semester we shall meet at the regularly-scheduled Wednesday afternoon time.

Students are reminded that by the Friday meeting they should have read and should be prepared to discuss the text that Chris has provided by e-mail, Mark Benson and Richard Higgott, “Hegemony, Institutionalism and US Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice in Comparative Historical Perspective, Third World Quarterly 26.7 (2005): 1173-1188.

October 5, 12, 19: In addition to the Leys and McMichael texts noted below discussion has turned to Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). The October 19 discussion was on the chapter 1, “Development and the Anthropology of Modernity,” pp. 3-20. Homework for the next seminar meeting is to read carefully chapter 2, “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development,” 21-54.

Student are reminded that instead of the usual Wednesday afternoon meeting we will meet next on Friday, October 28 at 3:00.

September 28: My apologies for not being able to be present today. The reading for the first two meetings of the seminar (October 5 and October 12) will be 1) Colin Leys, “The Rise and Fall of Development Theory,” chapter 1, pp. 3-44, in Leys’ The Rise & Fall of Development Theory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996) and 2) (a work that I believe some of you have already read) Philip McMichael, “Development and Globalization” and “Instituting the Development Project,” the Introduction and chapter 1, pp. xxiii-38 in McMichael’s Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, 3rd ed. (Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, 2004).