The Political Economy of Development
In Theory and History
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
New York University
(Ship recycling, Bangladesh)
Professor: Rosalind Fredericks
Office: Room 618, 1 Washington Place
Office Hours: W 2:00 – 4:00pm
Contact: rcf2@nyu.edu
Course: K20.1636
Semester: Spring 2011
Time: MW 12:30- 1:45pm
Location: Room 601, 1 Wash. Place
COURSE DESCRIPTION
What are the historical origins of the unequal geographies of wealth we see today and the
institutions purportedly charged with relieving them? How can the international Development
project be contextualized within transformations of the global world order and transnational
capitalism? Why did certain Asian countries become economic tigers while many African
nations saw their economies shrink? How do histories and theories of development help us to
grapple with some of the greatest challenges faced in the era of globalization?
The various meanings of the word “development” have changed over time, but it has become
shorthand for a complex set of social, economic, political, cultural and institutional
transformations over the last five hundred years. This course provides an introduction to the
political economy of development in theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective. In so
doing, it makes the fundamental distinction between (“big D”) Development as a post-war
international project that emerged in the context of decolonization, and capitalist (“little d”)
development as a dynamic and highly uneven historical process of global integration and
transformation. The purpose of the course is to highlight the interplay of theories and histories
of “big D” and “little d” development in order to draw insight towards understanding different
trajectories of socio-spatial change.
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The course draws primarily on scholarship from the fields of political economy, geography,
anthropology, development studies, and history. The inquiry is organized into four parts. Part
1 examines some of the most important and influential theoretical ideas and intellectual
traditions which seek to explain the historical origins of capitalist development. This provides a
foundation for understanding the legacies of previous eras of empire in shaping today’s
international political economy as well as the origins of the core ideas influencing Development
policy. Part 2 will trace the history of Development as an international project. We examine
how Development emerged from the process of decolonization in the 1940s, and the ways in
which theories and practices of Development have shifted over time. Tracing this history, we
will consider Development as a set of discourses as well as concrete practices and effects. Part 3
analyzes regional trajectories of socio-spatial change in theory and history through detailed
case studies of Africa and East Asia. Finally, Part 4 will consider key themes framing
contemporary development discourse and practice. Topics include: environment and resources;
gender, empowerment, and microfinance; NGOs; and cities.
REQUIREMENTS
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Class attendance and participation. Students are expected to read all assigned materials,
attend all classes, and participate actively in discussions. If you are unable to attend
class, you must let me know and come to my office hours that week. In the case that
you miss a film screened in class, you must view the film in your own time. You will
only be allowed one unexcused absence during the semester without penalty.
Consistent lateness will be penalized as well.
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Short paper 1: Discourses of development. Due Feb. 22nd.
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Short paper 2: Country profile. Due April 1st.
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Final research paper. A final 20 – 25 page paper (double-spaced) due at the end of the
semester. Based on primary and secondary source materials, the paper should explore
one of the key themes explored in Part 4, as it pertains to a specific region or country.
You may choose to concentrate on the same country you wrote about in your Country
paper, but this not required. A paper proposal (10%) will be due a few weeks before the
paper is due. Late policy: Unless you have received an extension from me (only granted
for serious/ medical issues), lateness will be penalized as follows: each day that your
paper is late, your grade will drop ½ of a grade point (e.g. from a B+ to a B). You are
required to inform me if the paper is going to be more than two days late. I will only
consider incompletes in extenuating circumstances and with prior agreement on the
date the paper will be due. Due May 10th.
Course Grades:
Attendance/Participation:
Short paper 1
Short paper 2
Final Paper:
15%
20%
20%
45%
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OFFICE HOURS and CONTACT
I will hold office hours on Wednesday afternoons from 2-4pm in my office. These will be either
on a first come, first serve, or there will be a sign-up sheet on my door.
Email: I am best reached by email at rcf2@nyu.edu. Although I do encourage you to stay in
touch with issues of concern, I also urge you to be considerate with your emails. I will do my
best to reply within 24 hours.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
In this class, we will be analyzing the thoughts, arguments, and evidence of others in an effort
to develop our own ideas. Plagiarism—or the presentation of someone else’s ideas, arguments,
or evidence without attribution or acknowledgement—of materials from inside and outside of
class is strictly prohibited and will be punished appropriately.
READINGS and FILMS
Required readings for the course are listed in the weekly syllabus. Background readings are
also listed, if you desire to do further research. All readings are either available through the
library’s electronic resources (with a link on Blackboard), in the library’s reserves, or at the
NYU Bookstore. At the Bookstore, you can purchase the Coursepack, which has most of the
readings not available electronically, and the following two required textbooks for the course:
Thomas, Alan and Allen, Tim. 2000. Poverty and Development in the 21st Century.
Thomas, Allen and Allen, Tim (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edelman, Marc and Haugerud, Angelique. 2005. The Anthropology of Development and
Globaization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
The following is a list of some films relevant to the course. They will either be screened in
class, or you are encouraged to watch them in your own time. Whenever possible, they have
been placed on reserve at the library.
Bamako (2007)
Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2006)
Commanding Heights (2006)
China Blue (2005)
Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2008)
Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
Drowned Out (2002)
Garbage Dreams (2009)
Health for Sale (2007)
Life and Debt (2001)
Maquilapolis (2006)
Our Friends at the Bank (1997)
Small Fortunes (2005)
T-Shirt Travels (2001)
The End of Poverty? (2009)
The Price of Sugar (2007)
Wasteland (2009)
White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
The Women’s Bank of Bangladesh
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The Political Economy of Development
In Theory and History
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COURSE SYLLABUS
Week 1.
Introduction: The Object of Development
(January 24, 26)
Thomas, Alan and Allen, Tim. 2000. “Poverty and the ‘End of Development’” and “Meanings
and Views of Development.” In Poverty and Development in the 21st Century. Thomas,
Allen and Allen, Tim (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 1 & 2: 3-48.
(Text)
Edelman, Marc and Haugerud, Angelique. 2005. The Anthropology of Development and
Globaization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing. Chapter 1: “Introduction: The Anthropology of Development
and Globalization.” Pp. 1-52. (Text)
PART 1: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Week 2.
Adam Smith, Classical, and Neoclassical Economics
(January 31; February 2)
Brown, Vivienne. 1996. “The Emergence of the Economy.” in Stuart Hall et al (eds) Modernity.
Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 91-121. (Coursepack)
Smith, Adam. 1776. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edwin Cannan
(ed.) London: Methuen & Co., Ltd. Chapters 1-3 (Online)
Rothschild, Emma. 1992. “Adam Smith and Conservative Economics.” Economic History Review
45(1): 74-96. (Online)
Peet, Richard and Hartwick, Susan. 2009. “Classical and Neoclassical Economics.” Theories of
Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives. (2nd Edition). New York: The Guilford
Press. Chapter 2: 23-52. (Coursepack)
Week 3.
Marx, Imperialism, and the Geography of International Capitalism
(February 7, 9)
Marx, Karl & Frederick Engels. 1848. The Communist Manifesto. (Chapter 2 in Anthropology of
Development). (Text)
Marx, Karl. 1847. “Wage, Labour and Capital.” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, April 5-8 and 11,
1849 (original). pp: 7-25. (Online)
Harvey, David. 2001. “The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation: A Reconstruction of the
Marxian Theory.” In Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. New York:
Routledge. Chapter 12: 237- 266. (Coursepack)
Bernstein, Henry. 2000. “Colonialism, Capitalism, Development.” In Poverty and Development
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in the 21st Century. Chapter 11: 241-270. (Text)
Peet, Richard and Hartwick, Susan. 2009. “Marxism, Socialism, and Development.” Theories of
Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives. (2nd Edition). New York: The Guilford
Press. Chapter 5: 143-166. (Coursepack)
Week 4.
Colonial Regimes and Their Legacies
(February 14, 16)
Hall, Stuart. 1992. “The West and the Rest.” In Stuart Hall, Formations of Modernity. Polity
Press. Pp 276-320. (Coursepack)
Potter, David. 2000. “The Power of Colonial States.” In Poverty and Development in the 21st
Century. Chapter 12: 271-287. (Text)
Cooper, Frederick and Pakard, Randall. 2006. “The History and Politics of Development
Knowledge.” Chapter 6 in The Anthropology of Development, p. 126-139. (Text)
Cooper, Frederick. 1998. “Modernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Africans, and the Development
Concept.” in F. Cooper and R. Packard, Development Knowledge and the Social Sciences.
Berkeley: University of California Press. (Chapter 2: 64-92). (Coursepack)
Additional Reading:
Cowen, M. and Shenton, R. 1996. Doctrines of Development. London: Routledge.
Davis, Mike. 2002. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. London:
Verso.
Fanon, Frantz. 1964. “First Truths on the Colonial Problem,” in Toward the African Revolution [orig. Pour
la revolution Africaine, Maspero 1964].
Ferguson, James. 2006. “Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: ‘Development’ in the Constitution of a
Discipline.” Chapter 7 in The Anthropology of Development, p. 140-154.
Furnivall, W. 1948. Colonial Policy and Practice. New York: New York University Press.
Kothari, Uma. 2006. ‘From Colonial Administration to Development Studies; A Post-Colonial Critique of
the History of Development Studies’, in U. Kothari (ed) A Radical History of Development Studies.
London: Zed Books.
McClintock, Anne. 1995. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York:
Routledge.
PART 2: DEVELOPMENT AS A POST-WAR INTERNATIONAL PROJECT: A
HISTORY OF CHANGING THEORIES AND PRACTICES
Week 5.
The 1950s and 1960s: Modernization, Structuralism, and Import
Substitution Industrialization (ISI) (February 23)
Thomas, Alan and Allen, Tim. 2000. “Agencies of Development.” In Poverty and Development in
the 21st Century. Chapter 9, pp. 189-216. (Text)
Hewitt, Tom. 2000. “Half a Century of Development.” In Poverty and Development in the 21st
Century. Chapter 13, pp. 289-296. (Text)
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Rostow, W. W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (Chapter 2, "The Five Stages of Growth--A Summary,"
pp. 4-16). (Online)
Baer, W. 1983. “Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and
Interpretations,” in M. Todaro (ed) The Struggle for Economic Development (New York:
Longman, 1983): pp. 301-315. (Online)
Sylvia Maxfield and John Nolt. 1990. “Protectionism and the Internationalization of Capital:
US Sponsorship of Import Substitution Industrialization in the Philippines, Turkey, and
Argentina.” International Studies Quarterly (34): pp.49-81. (Online)
Additional Reading:
Hirschman, Albert. 1981.“The Rise and Decline of Development Economics,” in Essays in Trespassing:
Economics to Politics and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1981): pp. 1-24.
Keynes, John Maynard. 1960. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. London: MacMillan.
Peet, Richard and Hartwick, Susan. 2009. “From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism” and
“Development as Modernization.” Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives.
(2nd Edition). New York: The Guilford Press. Chapter 3: 53-74 and Chapter 4: 103- 140.
Prebisch, R. 1950. The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems. New York: United
Nations.
Wood, Robert. 1986. From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis: Foreign Aid and Development Choices in the World
Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Week 6.
Dependency Theory, Basic Needs, and the Rise of the World Bank
(February 28, March 2)
Hewitt, Tom. 2000. “Half a Century of Development.” In Poverty and Development in the 21st
Century. Chapter 9, pp. 296-308. (Text)
Frank, Andre Gunder. 1966. “The Development of Underdevelopment.” Monthly Review (18):
pp. 17-31. (Coursepack)
Bernstein, Henry and Howard Nicholas. 1983. “Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the
Will? A Response to Gunder Frank.” Development and Change vol. 14: pp.609-624.
(Coursepack)
Finnemore, Martha. 1998. “Redefining Development at the World Bank.” in F. Cooper and R.
Packard, Development Knowledge and the Social Sciences. Berkeley: University of California
Press: pp. 203-227. (Coursepack)
Goldman, Michael. 2005. ‘The Rise of the Bank,’ in Imperial Nature: The World Bank and
Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press:
pp. 46-99. (Coursepack)
Additional Reading:
McNamara, Robert. 1973. “Paupers of the World and How to Develop Them,” (Excerpts from the
Address to the Board of Governors, World Bank, Nairobi 1973).
Wood, Robert. 1986. “Basic Needs and the Limits of Regime Change.” in From Marshall Plan to Debt
Crisis: Foreign Aid and Development Choices in the World Economy. Berkeley: UC Press: 195-231.
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Week 7.
The Neoliberal Counter-Revolution and Beyond
(March 7, 9)
Berg, Elliot. 1981. Accelerated development in Sub-Saharan Africa: an agenda for action.
Washington, DC: The World Bank. (Selections) (Coursepack)
Gore, Charles. 2000. “The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for
Developing Countries.’ World Development 28(5): 789-804. (Online)
Hart, Gillian. 2001. “Development Critiques in the 1990s: culs de sac and promising paths.”
Progress in Human Geography 24 (4) 2001: 649-658. (Online)
Escobar, Arturo. 2006. “Imagining a Post-Development Era.” Chapter 26 in The Anthropology
of Development, p. 341-351. (Text)
Altvater, Elmar. 2009. “Postneoliberalism or Postcapitalism? The Failure of Neoliberalism in
the Financial Market Crisis.” Development Dialogue 51: 73-86. (Online)
Wade, Robert. 2010. “After the Crisis: Industrial Policy and the Developmental State in LowIncome Countries.” Global Policy 1(2): 150-161. (Online)
Additional Reading:
Comaroff, John and Jean. 2006. “Millenial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism.” Chapter 7 in The
Anthropology of Development, p. 177-188.
Diamond, Larry. 2002. "Thinking About Hybrid Regimes." Journal of Democracy. 13(2): 21-35.
Easterly, William. 2001. “The Lost Decades: Developing Countries’ Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform
1980-1998.” Journal of Economic Growth 6: 135-57.
Evans, Peter. 2009. “From Situations of Dependency to Globalized Social Democracy.” Studies in
Comparative International Development 44(4): 318-36.
Ferguson, James and Larry Lohmann. 1994. “The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’ and
Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.” The Ecologist 24(5): 176-181.
Harriss, J. (2001). Depoliticizing Development: The World Bank and Social Capital.
Leftword/Anthem/Stylus.
Hart, Gillian. 2002. ‘Development/s beyond Neoliberalism? Power, Culture, Political Economy. Progress
in Human Geography 26 (6): 812-822.
Mohan, G. and K. Stokke. 2000. “Participatory Development and Empowerment: The Dangers of
Localism.” Third World Quarterly 21(2) 2000: esp. 247-268.
Paley, Julia. 2001. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Berkeley,
UC Press. Chapter 5: “The Paradox of Participation” (pp. 140-181).
Porter, Doug & David Craig. 2006. Development Beyond Neoliberalism? Governance, Poverty Reduction &
Political Economy. London: Routledge.
Rodrik, Dani. 2006. “Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion? A Review of the
World Bank's Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform.” Journal of
Economic Literature 44(4): 973-87.
Taylor, Lance. 1997. “The Revival of the Liberal Creed: the IMF and the World Bank in a Globalized
Economy.” World Development 25 (2): 145-152.
Wade, Robert. 2011. “The market as means rather than master: the crisis of development and the future
role of the state.” In Shahrukh Khan and Jens Christiansen (eds.), Towards New Developmentalism:
Market as Means rather than Master. New York: Routledge.
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Watts, Michael. 1994. “Development II: The Privatization of Everything.” Progress in Human Geography
18(3), 1994: 371-384.
Watts, Michael. 2006. “Culture, Development and Global Neoliberalism.” in S.Radcliffe (ed)., Culture and
Development in a Globalising World. London, Routledge, pp. 30-58.
Williamson, J. 1993. “Democracy and the Washington Consensus.” World Development 21(8): 1329-36.
PART 3: REGIONS AND TRAJECTORIES
Week 8.
The Late Industrializers and Asian Economic Miracles
(March 21, 23)
Allen, Tim and Jo Chattaway. 2000. “Prospects and Dilemmas for Industrializing Nations.”
Chapter 24 in Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. (Text)
Leftwitch, Adrian. 1995. “Bringing politics back in: Towards a model of the developmental
state.” Journal of Development Studies 31(3): 400 – 427. (Online)
Cumings, Bruce. 1984. “The Origins and Development of Northeast Asia.” International
Organization 48(1): 1-40. (Online)
Hayashi, Shigeko. 2010. “The developmental state in the era of globalization: beyond the
Northeast Asian model of political economy.” The Pacific Review 23(1): 45- 69. (Online)
Additional Reading:
Castells, Manuel. 1998. The End of the Millennium. (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture,
Volume III). Oxford: Blackwell. Chapter 4: “Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific:
Globalization and the State.”
Evans, Peter .B., Rueschemeyer, D. and T. Skocpol (eds.).1985. Bringing the State Back In. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Evans, Peter B. 1989. “Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political
Economy Perspective on the Third World State.” Sociological Forum 4: 561-587.
Oi, Jean. 1992. ‘Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism in China.’ World
Politics Vol. 45, No. 1: 99-126.
Johnson, Chalmers. 1982. MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Wade, Robert. 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian
Industrialization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Woo-Cumings, Meredith (ed.)1989. The Developmental State. Ithaca, NY: Cornall University Press.
Week 9.
“Underdevelopment” in Africa
(March 28, 30)
Ferguson, James. 2006. Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Durham: Duke
University Press. (Introduction, Chapters 1-3 (pages 1-88)). (PDF and Coursepack)
Amin, Samir. 2002. “Africa: Living on the Fringe.” Monthly Review 53(10): 41-50. (Online)
Watts, Michael. 2006. “Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa.’
Monthly Review 58(4): 1-17. (Online)
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Additional Reading:
Amin, Samir. 1972. “Underdevelopment and dependence in black Africa: origins and contemporary
forms.” Journal of Modern African Studies 10: 503–524.
French, Howard. 2005. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. New York: Vintage
Books.
Hochschild, Adam. 1999. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
New York: Houghton-Mifflin.
Lovejoy, Paul E. 1989. “The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa: A Review of the Literature.”
The Journal of African History 30 (3): 365-394.
Mamdani, Mahmood. 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
Colonialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Mbembe, Achille. 2000. ‘At the edge of the world.’ Public Culture 12/1.
Mbembe, Achille. 2001. On the Postcolony. Berkeley: UC Press.
Nunn, Nathan. 2008. “The Long Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades.” Quarterly Journal of Economics
123, no. 1 (2008): 139-176.
Pakenham, Thomas. 1992. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 18761912. New York: Avon Books.
Rodney, Walter. 1972. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London,: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications.
Samatar, A. 1999. An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana
Development. Portsmouth, NH: Heinneman.
Zenawi, Meles. African Development: Dead Ends and New Beginnings.
PART 4: KEY THEMES in CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT
Week 10.
Environment and Resources
(April 4, 6)
Serageldin, Ismail. 1996. Sustainability and the Wealth of Nations: First Steps in on Ongoing
Journey. Washington: The World Bank Environmentally Sustainable Development
Studies and Monograph Series, No. 5: 1-17. (Coursepack)
Wade, Robert. 1997. “Greening the Bank: The Struggle over the Environment, 1979- 1995.” in
D. Kapur (ed) The World Bank: Its first Half Century. Washington: Brookings Institution
Press. (Chapter 13: pp. 611-614; 729-734). (Coursepack)
Woodhouse, Phil and Admos Chimhowu. 2005. “Development studies, nature, and natural
resources: changing narratives and discursive practices.” U. Kothari (ed) A Radical
History of Development Studies. London: Zed Books. (Chapter 9: 180-199). (Coursepack)
Fairhead, James, and Melissa Leach. 2005. ‘Misreading Africa’s Forest History.’ In Anthropology
of Development and Globalization: 282-291. (Text)
Hecht, Susanna. 2005. “Soybeans development and conservation.” Development and Change 36(2):
375-404. (Online)
Additional Reading:
Bassett, T. 2010. “Slim pickings: Fairtrade cotton in West Africa.” Geoforum. 41: 44-55.
Agrawal, Arun. 2005. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Durham,
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Duke University Press.
Goldman, Michael. 2005. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of
Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Grossman, L. 1998. The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the
Eastern Caribbean. University of North Carolina Press.
Hayden, Cori. 2003. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kosek, Jake. 2006. The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press.
Peet, Richard, Paul Robbins, and Michael Watts (eds). 2010. Global Political Ecology. London: Routledge.
Peluso, Nancy Lee. 2005. “Whose Forests Are These? Counter/mapping forest territories in Kalimantan,
Indonesia.” In Anthropology of Development and Globalization, 273-281.
Tsing, Anna. 2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Week 11.
Gender, Empowerment, and Microfinance
(April 11, 13)
Pearson, Ruth. 2000. “Rethinking Gender Matters in Development.” In Poverty and
Development in the 21st Century. Chapter 18: 383-402. (Text)
Hart, Gillian. 1997. “From ‘Rotten Wives’ to ‘Good Mothers’: Household Models and the
Limits of Economism.” IDS Bulletin 28 (3): 14-25. (Coursepack)
Yunus, M. 1997. “The Grameen Bank Story: Rural Credit in Bangladesh.” In: Reasons for Hope:
Instructive Experiences in Rural Development. Eds A. Krishna, N. Uphoff and M. Esman.
Pp 9-24. (Coursepack)
Weber, Heloise. 2004. “The New Economy and Social Risk: Banking on the Poor.” Review of
International Political Economy 11(2): 356-386. (Online)
Rankin, Katherine N. 2001. “Social Capital, Microfinance, and the Politics of Development.”
Feminist Economics 8(1): 1 -24. (Online)
Additional Reading:
Carney, J. and M. Watts. 1990. "Manufacturing Dissent: Work, Gender and the Politics of Meaning in a
Peasant Society." Africa, 60 (2): 205-241.
Chant, Sylvia and Matthew C. Gutmann. 2005. ‘“Men-Streaming” Gender? Questions for gender and
development policy in the twenty-first century.’ In Anthropology of Development and Globalization,
240-249.
Cleaver, F. 1999. “Paradoxes of Participation: Questioning Participatory Approaches to Development.”
Journal of International Development 11: 597-612.
Connelly, M.P. et al. 2000. “Feminism and Development : Theoretical Perspectives.” In Jane L. Parpart,
M. Patricia Connelly, V. Eudine Barriteau (Eds.). Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and
Development
Elson, Diane, 1989. “The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women: Concepts and Issues,” in Onimode,
B. (ed), The IMF, the World Bank, and the African Debt. London: Zed Books.
Hart, Gillian. 1992. “Household Production Reconsidered: Gender, Labor Conflict, and Technological
Change in Malaysia’s Muda Region.” World Development 20(6): 809-823.
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Kabeer, N. 2001. “Conflicts over credit: re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to women in
rural Bangladesh.” World Development 29(1): 63-84.
Mayoux, Linda (2001) ‘Tackling the Downside: Social Capital, Women’s Empowerment and Microfinance
in Cameroon’, Development and Change 32(3): 435–64.
Mohanty, C.T. 1991. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse.” In Mohanty,
C.T. et al. (eds.) Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press. pp. 51-80.
Moore, H. L. 1992. “Households and Gender Relations: The Modeling of the Economy.” In Sutti Ortiz
and Susan Lees (Eds) Understanding Economic Processes (Monographs in Economic Anthropology
10). New York: University Press of America. Pp. 131-148.
Nagar, R. et al. 2002. “Locating globalization : feminist re(readings) of the subjects and spaces of
globalization.” Economic Geography 78: 257-285.
Parpart, Jane L., Rai, Shirin M. and Kathleen Staudt. 2002. “Rethinking em(power)ment, gender, and
development: An Introduction.” In Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a
Global/Local World. London: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation.
Pearson, Ruth and Cecile Jackson. 1998. “Introduction: Interrogating Development” in Cecile Jackson
and Ruth Pearson (eds). Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy. London:
Routledge.
Rahman, A. 1999. “Micro-credit initiatives for equitable and sustainable development: who pays?” World
Development 27(1): 67-82.
Salzinger, Leslie. 2003. Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Spivak, G. 1988. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg, eds. Marxism and the
Interpretation of Culture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, p.271-313.
Standing, Guy. 1999. “Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited.” World
Development 27(3): 583-602.
Thayer, Millie. 2001: Joan Scott in the Sertão: rural Brazilian women and transnational feminism.
Ethnography 2, 243-71.
Young, Stephen. 2010. “The “Moral Hazards” of Microfinance: Restructuring Rural Credit in India.”
Antipode Vol. 42 No. 1 pp 201–223.
Yunus, M. 1998. Banker to the Poor, Dhaka: University of Bangladesh Press.
Week 12.
NGOs
(April 18, 20)
Lewis, David. 2005. “Individuals, organizations, and public action: trajectories of the ‘nongovernmental’ in development studies.” In A Radical History of Development Studies Pp
200-221. (Coursepack)
Uphoff, Norman. 1996. “Why NGOs are Not a Third Sector: A Sectoral Analysis with Some
Thougths on Accountability, Sustainability, and Evaluation.” In Beyond the Magic Bullet:
NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World. Edwards, Michael and
Hulme, David (eds). West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. (Coursepack)
Bornstein, Erica. 2001. “The Verge of Good and Evil: Christian NGOs and Economic
Development in Zimbabwe” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 24(1): 59-77.
(Online)
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Elyachar, Julia. 2005. Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in
Cairo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Chapter 6: “NGOs, Business, and Social
Capital.” 167-190). (Online)
Additional Reading:
Appadurai, Arjun. 2002. “Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics.” Public
Culture 14(1): 21–47.
Bebbington, Anthon, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin (eds). 2008. Can NGOs Make a Difference?: The
Challenge of Development Alternatives. Zed Books.
Li, Tania. 2000. “Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 42(1):149-179.
Postero, Nancy Grey. 2007. Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Week 13.
Cities
(May 2, 4)
Kaplan, Robert. 1994. “The Coming Anarchy.” The Atlantic Monthly 273(2): 44-76. (Online)
Davis, Mike. 2004. “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat.” New
Left Review 26: 5-34. (Online)
Bayat, Asef. 1997. “’Un-civil’ Society: The Politics of the ‘Informal People.””Third World
Quarterly 18/1: 53-72. (Online)
Simone, AbdouMaliq, 2006. “Pirate Towns: Reworking Social and Symbolic Infrastructures in
Johannesburg and Douala.” Urban Studies, 43 (2): 357-370. (Online)
Ghertner, Asher. 2010. “Green evictions: environmental discourses of a ‘slum-free’ Delhi.” In
Global Political Ecology. (Coursepack)
Additional Reading:
AlSayyad, Nezar and Roy, Ananya (eds.) 2004. Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle
East, Latin America, and South Asia. New York: Lexington Books.
Caldeira, T.P.R. 1996. “Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation.” Public Culture, 8, 303-28.
Holston, James, and Arjun Appadurai. 1999. “Cities and Citizenship.” In Cities and Citizenship. J. Holston
(ed.). Durham, Duke University Press: 1-18.
Mitchell, Don. 2003. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. New York: Guilford.
Perlman, Janice. 1976. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. UC Press.
Robinson, Jennifer. 2002. “Global and World Cities: A view from off the map.” International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research 26 (3): 531-554.
Saff, G. 1996. “Claiming space in a changing South Africa – the squatters of Marconi Beam, Cape Town.”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86, 2: 235-255.
Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2004. For the City Yet to Come: Changing Life in Four African Cities. Durham: Duke
University Press.
Smith, Neil. 2002 "New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy," Antipode
34(3): 434-457.
Week 14.
Wrap-up (May 9)
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