Geog 335 – Autumn 2007
Geographies of the Developing World
Reading and Assignment Calendar – Part I (Revised)
Below is the list of readings and their due dates. You will be responsible for all assigned
readings. I will assign additional readings as the quarter progresses.
Note: It is very important that you remember which author writes what. Keep in mind you are
not reading facts. Rather, you are reading arguments, so noting who argues what, and provides
what kind of evidence in support of his/her argument, is a fundamental part of scholarship.
Introductions
Week 1
Course Introduction
Who we are, why we’re here. Tensions in International Development.
Thu, Sep 27
[No Readings Assigned}
What and where is development?
Week 2
Tue, Oct 2
Introduction to Development and to Critical Development Studies
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Thu, Oct 4
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Potter, Robert., Binns, Tony., Elliot, Jennifer., and Smith, David. (2004) “Chapter 1:
Questioning Development.” Geographies of Development 2nd ed. New York: Pearson Press.
(pp. 3-48).
Lawson, Victoria (2007) “Chapter 1: Development as Situated Knowledge.” Making
Development Geography. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp. 1-31).
Adams, W.M. (1990) “Chapter 1: The Dilemma of Sustainability.” Green Development.
New York: Routledge. (pp. 1-21).
Escobar, A. (1995) Chapter 2: The Problemitization of Poverty.” Encountering Development.
Princeton: Princeton University Press. (pp. 21-54).
Slater, David. (1995) “Trajectories of Development Theory: Capitalism, Socialism, and
Beyond.” Geographies of Global Change. RJ Johnston, et. al., eds. Oxford: Blackwell. (pp.
63-78)
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Reading and Assignment Calendar – Part I (Revised)
Development as Intervention
Week 3
The “Development Project” Since WWII
Tue, Oct 9
Modernization theory
1. Rostow, W. W. (1960) The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto Chapter 2.
2. Lawson Ch. 3 “Development as Interventions – From Modernisation to Neo-liberalisation.”
3. Slater, David (2004) ‘Modernizing the Other and the Three Worlds of Development’ in
Geopolitics and the Postcolonial: Rethinking North-South relations (Oxford, Blackwell)
pp57-85
Thu , Oct 11
Dependency theory
1. Ferraro, Vincent (1996) “Dependency Theory: An Introduction.” From
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/depend.htm accessed September 27, 2007.
2. Frank, A. G. (1966) ‘The Development of Underdevelopment’, version reprinted in Wilber,
Charles and Jameson, Kenneth (eds) The Political Economy of Development and
Underdevelopment (McGraw-Hill) pp107-117
3. Rodney, Walter (1981) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Washington, Howard
University Press) pp 3-29
4. Velasco, Andres. (2002) “Dependency Theory a Generation Later.” From
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidinthenews/articles/FP_11-1202.pdf accessed on September 27,
2007.
Week 4
Tue, Oct 16
Neo-liberal Approaches to Development
1. Slater, David (2004) ‘The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Expansion of Western Power’ in
Geopolitics and the Postcolonial: Rethinking North-South relations (Oxford, Blackwell) pp.
86-113.
2. Chase, Jaquelyn (2002) ‘Introduction: The Spaces of Neoliberalism in Latin America’ in The
Spaces of Neoliberalism (Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press) pp. 1-19
Reactions to Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Globalization
1. Danaher, Kevin (1994) ‘Introduction’ in Kevin Danaher (ed) Fifty Years is Enough: The Case
against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (MA: South End Press) pp 1-5.
2. Kohl, Benjamin (2002) ‘Stabilizing neoliberalism in Bolivia: Popular Participation and
Privatization’ Political Geography 21 pp. 449-472.
3. Willis, Katie (2005) ‘Chapter 7: Globalization and Development: Problems and Solutions?’
Theories and Practices of Development (New York: Routledge) pp 173-199.
Thu, Oct 18
1. George, Susan (1988) ‘How much is $1 Trillion?’ in A Fate Worse Than Debt (London,
Penguin Books) pp. 11-29
2. George, Susan (1988) ‘The International Monetary Fund: Let them eat special drawing rights’ in
A Fate Worse Than Debt (London, Penguin Books) pp. 47-57
3. Rich, Bruce (1994) ‘World bank/IMF: 50 Years is Enough’ in Kevin Danaher (ed) Fifty Years is
Enough: The Case against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (MA: South
End Press) pp. 6-13
4. Potter, George Ann (2000) “The more we pay the more we owe” and “the less we have”, in
Deeper than Debt: Economic Globalization and the Poor (Russell Press, Notts) pp. 56-99
5. Monbiot, George (14/6/2005) Spin, Lies and Corruption [accessed online at
www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/06/14/spin-lies-and-corruption/]
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