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1 F14: Bachelor - IDS-Introduction Course: International Development Studies Om kurset Uddannelse Forkortelse Kursustype Undervisningssprog International Development Studies Grundkursus Grundkursus English Tilmelding Registration via STADS between 4th - 7th February 2014 Kursus starter Kursus slutter Eksamensform 48-hours examination 7th - 9th April 2014 Re-examination: 13th - 15th August 2014 Eksamenstidspunkt The topic(s) will be sent out by 7th April 2014 at 10 o clock. Please submit on 9th April before 10 o clock at this website: (Otherwise you can submit two printed stapled copies in building 24.2 also before 10 o clock) The essay should be of a maximum of keystrokes/characters including spaces. The appendix and standard frontpage are not included when counting the permitted size. The result of your examination will be published 2nd May Evaluering Formål Passed/not passed International Development Studies seem to be standing at a crossroads. The growing complexity of issues of development occurs as old certainties tend to disappear under the influence of what David Harvey has called time -space compression. How can international development be distinguished from globalization? In the face of economic development and underdevelopment and in the face of the theorizing related to the neo-liberal counter revolution in development studies, the usefulness of theories and approaches taken so far are questioned: what is the usefulness of modernisation theory, the explanatory power of dependency theory or critical globalization theory? Political institutions, state and governance are complex combinations of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial modern institutions how can they be studied in a way that accounts for this complexity? Moreover, how can we approach and encompass problems of environment and climate change in contemporary development studies? Should culture be seen as a resource, rather than a drawback for development? And how can development studies incorporate the significance of mobile and changing identities and alternative world views as key elements of mobilisation for development and political action? The course takes outset in two lectures that take a general view on international development studies, as standing at a crossroads. The remaining course is divided into three subthemes which, although not exhaustive, each gives a response to this situation, presenting a core issue that is currently taking central stage within international development studies. Each theme consists of 6 general lectures and a week that combines case-based lectures, groupwork and workshops. Theme 1: Economic Development and Social Inequality is concerned with developmental models and key-agents of economic development in both their institutional and broader social and politico-economic context during the general lectures section and more specific strategies of economic development, all designed to combat poverty will be presented for investigation in group work during the case-week section. Theme 2: Politics of culture: Cultural controversies in development explores in the general lectures how the cultural dimensions of development are linked with political processes, i.e. the ways in which interpretations, perceptions and discourses are politically deployed, and consequently become sites of contestation and controversy. During the case-week the focus is on globalized cultural controversies how cultural controversies become entangled in global processes, and consequently work to re-establish cultural hierarchies, couched in development discourses. Theme 3: Politics of development - is during the first general lectures section concerned with the interplay between socioeconomic players and structures in broad terms; an interplay which is viewed as dynamic processes taking place in various societal and historic contexts. The case-week presents cases from the Asian context for groupwork. Note that the course is quite intensive in terms of readings. The course is divided into three thematic parts and each part is again divided into a lectures section and a case-week section. The general lectures section consists of six lectures with more general contents, distributed with two lectures on Tuesdays and two lectures on Fridays. The case-weeks are introduced on

2 Mondays followed by three lectures, one Monday morning, one Monday afternoon, the final one Tuesday morning. These lectures take outset in cases that are relevant for the group work. Tuesday afternoon group work/workshop is initiated with a teacher/facilitator for each cluster of groups. A problem formulation for a synopsis is submitted (in Moodle.ruc.dk) at Wednesday and Thursday the groups work on their own. Thursday at 14.00, the groups are expected to submit a synopsis of 5-8 pages, summarizing their work. Friday the groups in a workshop present and discuss their synopsis for the cluster that the group belongs to, and the facilitator will take part as well. Communication among course participants and teachers will take place on Moodle which you find on See the schedule for case-weeks here below. Readings A substantial part of the readings for each theme is taken from the textbooks (available at the RUC bookstore): Cypher, J. M. and J. L. Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge. Schech, S. & J. Haggis, 2000: Culture and Development. A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Burnell, P. V. Randall & L. Rakner, eds, 2010: Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3rd edition. The remaining readings are to be found on the Internet, primarily via Rub use your library log-in. Supplementary readings are mentioned to guide your further reading only. Mål Learning objectives The course is intended to enable students to: Understand classical and modern theories of development, and utilise these to analyse development-related issues. Understand politics and the state as theoretical concepts and action-oriented categories on the basis of various tendencies and forms of practice. Understand and assess how political and state strategies influence and are influenced by concrete development processes. Understand and assess how global, regional, national and local socio-economic players and structures influence and are influenced by the globalisation process and the roles of international players in this process. Understand and assess how social and cultural factors shape and influence development processes, e.g. in the form of culturally-based categories such as gender, ethnicity or religion. Compile precise and well-formulated synopses on development-related issues for oral presentation and discussion and in this connection, give and receive constructive and well-argued criticism. Målgruppe IDS Bachelor students Undervisningsansvarlig Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) Kursussekretær Christina Borup ( cborup@ruc.dk ) Underviser Signe Arnfred ( signe@ruc.dk ) Laurids Sandager Lauridsen ( lsl@ruc.dk ) Bodil Folke Frederiksen ( bodilff@ruc.dk ) Lone Riisgaard ( loner@ruc.dk ) Johan Fischer ( johanf@ruc.dk ) Peter Kragelund ( jpk@ruc.dk ) Ole Bruun ( obruun@ruc.dk ) Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) Louise Mubanda Rasmussen ( lnr@ruc.dk ) Tobias Hagmann ( thagmann@ruc.dk ) Lars Buur ( lbuur@ruc.dk ) Kirstine Strøh Varming ( ksv@ruc.dk ) Adam Moe Fejerskov ( amoef@ruc.dk ) Karen Sau Jespersen ( karensj@ruc.dk ) Anders Riel Müller ( arm@ruc.dk ) Masheti Wangoyi ( masheti@ruc.dk ) kursusgange Lecture 1: International development in perspective Tidspunkt 04/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Signe Arnfred ( signe@ruc.dk ) This lecture places 'development' within the cultural history of the West itself, tracing its roots in the revolutionary changes in ideology, science, technology and social relations over a span of at least several hundred years. By exploring both continuities and changes in our general outlook it will open up for addressing crucial questions such as the significance of evolutionary thinking of development

3 towards higher complexity, the consequences of development's naturalization, what key moments contributed to shaping present North- South relations, and why, according to Gilbert Rist, 'development has led so many well-intentioned people astray'. Readings: Schech & Haggis, ch. 2: Bringing culture and development together, pp Cypher, James M. and James L. Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, Chapter 3 (pp ). Supplementary Reading: Gilbert Rist, 1997: The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. London: Zed Books. Chapters 1 & 2, pp Lecture 2: Theories, Policies and Practices of International Development Tidspunkt 04/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Johan Fischer ( johanf@ruc.dk ) Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) This lecture explores International Development Studies in the interfaces between theory, policy and practice. Based on a number of cases, the theme coordinators each from their particular perspective examine the acceleration of the global and political economy in the current era of globalization. Another important question is the central and often ambiguous relationship between policy models and the practices and events that they are expected to generate or legitimize. We also consider the tension between International Development Studies as an academic discipline on the one hand and as intricately linked to interests of development agencies and economic interests on the other. Readings: Mosse, David Is Good Policy Unimplementable? Reflections on the Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. Development and Change 35(4): McMichael, Philip Development and Social Change, Ch. 1 Development and Globalization: Framing Issues (pp. 1-24) Supplementary reading: McMichael, Philip, 2007; Ch. 9 Development for What? (pp ). Lecture 3: Structural change, economic development and poverty - an introduction Tidspunkt 07/ kl. 08:30-10:30 What is economic development? Why is economic growth important? Why does economic growth and development require structural change? How can one measure economic growth and development? What is economic underdevelopment and how can we explain it? What is the relationship between economic growth, social inequality and poverty alleviation? What are the core determinants behind sustained economic growth and development? The lecture will address these questions and give an overview over contending approaches in a historical perspective. More specifically, selected liberal, marxist, structuralist, institutionalist and dependencia approaches will be presented and compared. Readings: Cypher, James M. and James L. Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, Chapter 1 (pp. 3-25), Chapter 5 (pp , Chapter 6 (pp ) Supplementary readings: Cypher, James M. and James L. Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, Chapter 2 (pp ), Chapter 3 (pp ) and Chapter 4 (pp ) Lecture 4: Agricultural transformation and the rural poor Tidspunkt 07/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Ole Bruun ( obruun@ruc.dk ) In most developing countries, agriculture is the dominating sector in terms of providing livelihoods to a majority of the population, food security for the entire population and is often the main employer and export earner. The agricultural sector therefore often is an important part of a developing country s identity. For many developing countries the agricultural sector is dominated by small-scale

4 subsistence oriented farm households and in a political context where industrial development often is favoured at the expense of agricultural development. Rural development is thus seen in a wider context of national development and examples of this are discussed. Large scale agriculture and plantation systems as well as smallholder farming systems are presented with emphasis on agricultural intensification. Small scale agriculture is seen as the main environmental agency and conventional and organic agriculture is discussed in relation to sustainable utilization of natural resources. Major constraints to agricultural development are presented in a context of population density and growth, and initiatives to further agricultural development especially land reform and the green revolution and more recently GMO s will be introduced. Readings: Readings: Cypher, James M. and James L. Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, Chapter 11 (pp ) Supplementary readings: Colin Sage: Environment and Food. Routledge Lecture 5: Industrialisation patterns and strategies Tidspunkt 11/ kl. 08:30-10:30 It seems general accepted that a modernisation of the economies in many poor developing countries is a pre-request for economic development. In this lecture two market driven industrial strategies, the Import Substitution Strategy (ISI) and Export Oriented Industrialisation (EOI), will be taken up for discussion. The two strategies represent two different approaches to economic theory and development strategies. The lecture will look into both economic and political theoretical aspects of the strategies and use case examples. Cypher & Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge,) Chapter 9 (pp ) and Chapter 10 (pp ). Supplementary readings: Anne Booth Initial Conditions and Miraculous Growth: Why is South East Asia Different from Taiwan and South Korea? World Development, Vol. 27, No.2 pp Christobal Kay Why East Asia overtook Latin America: agrarian reform, industrialisation and development, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, pp Lecture 6:The state as a potential agent of economic transformation Tidspunkt 11/ kl. 10:45-12:45 What is the role of the state in the process of economic transformation and why do some states perform better than others? According to the neo-liberal interpretation the state is seen as part of the problem? State failures prevail in most developing countries and they are worse than market-failures. In contrast, other approaches take their part of departure in the myopic nature of the market and private entrepreneurs and suggest that effective, developmental states are the key to economic development. The lectures will present and discuss these competing views. Subsequently, we will discuss what explains the variation in state institutions, whether developmental states can be democratic and to what extent stateness is feasible in an era of globalisation. Cypher & Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, Chapter 7 (pp ) Evans, Peter Predatory, Developmental, and other Apparatus. A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State, Sociological Forum, Vol. 4, No. 4,( pp ) Supplementary readings: Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3. Edition. Chapter 12 (pp ). Evans, Peter. 1997b. The Eclipse of the State. Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization, World Politics 50, October.. Leftwich, Adrian, Bringing Politics Back in: Towards a Model of the Developmental State, The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, February. Group formation Tidspunkt 12/ kl. 09:30-15:00

5 Underviser Kirstine Strøh Varming ( ksv@ruc.dk ) Group formation Tidspunkt 13/ kl. 09:30-15:00 Underviser Kirstine Strøh Varming ( ksv@ruc.dk ) Adam Moe Fejerskov ( amoef@ruc.dk ) Lecture 7: Economic globalisation - Trade and trade regulation Tidspunkt 14/ kl. 08:30-10:30 This lecture will lay out the economic landscape of globalisation. How are the contemporary global change processes distinguishing themselves from previous époques and what are the driving forces behind the development? Focus will be upon trade flows and trade policy and the lecture will revisit some of the most influential economic theories on international trade. Furthermore it will look into the political infrastructure supporting the change processes and what are the most important political institutions. Cypher & Dietz, 2010, The Process of Economic Development, Ch 4 Classical and neoclassical theories (p ) & Ch 6 Heterodox theories of economic development (p & ). Wade, Robert, 2003 "What strategies are viable for developing countries? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of 'development space', Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 4, November, pp Additional literature:smith, James 2004, "Inequality in international trade. Developing countries and institutional change in WTO dispute settlement Review of International Political Economy, pp. 11, Kapoor, Ilan, 2004, "Deliberative democracy and the WTO", Review of International Political Economy, 11, 3, pp Lloyd, 2012, The Role of Developing Countries in Global Economic Governance;ARTNeT Working Paper Series, no. 117 Higgott & Erman, 2008, Deliberative Global Governance and the Question of Legitimacy: What Can We Learn from the WTO; GARNET Working Paper No: 53/08 Lecture 8: Economic globalisation and uneven development - foreign direct investments and outsourcing. Tidspunkt 14/ kl. 10:45-12:45 During the last three decades we have seen witnessed a widening international income gap between developing and developed countries but we have also seen a growing divergence between developing countries that have experienced growth successes and developing countries that have undergone growth collapses. In short, we have seen a process of uneven development. During the same period there has been an expansion of economic globalisation taking the form of direct foreign investment and international outsourcing. This raises the issue of the relationship between on the one hand these processes and on the other hand uneven development. Henceforth we will In this second lecture on economic globalisation deal with globalisation of production in the form of foreign direct investments and global value chains, and discuss how the new global organisation of production impacts upon economic transformation and poverty alliviation in developing countries. Cypher & Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge,, Chapter 14 (pp ) Gereffi, Gary et.al "Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development", IDS Bulletin Vol. 32, No.3, pp. 1-7 Lecture 9: Global aid - a mechanism of development or underdevelopment Tidspunkt 17/ kl. 08:30-10:30

6 Underviser Peter Kragelund ( jpk@ruc.dk ) For the past 50 years foreign aid has defined the relationship between Northern and Southern countries. This session introduces two of the main players in this relationship, namely the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and discusses how they influence key policy decisions in developing countries. Moreover, this session seeks to take stock with the ever present debate on whether (or to what extent) aid works or not. Cypher & Dietz The Process of Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge,, Chapter 17 (pp ) Gulrajani, N. (2011). Transcending the Great Foreign Aid Debate: managerialism, radicalism and the search for aid effectiveness. Third World Quarterly, 32(2), Supplementary readings: Hjertholm, P., & White, H. (2000). Foreign aid in historical perspective: background and trends. In F. Tarp & P. Hjertholm (Eds.), Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future (pp ). London: Routledge. Pronk, J. P. (2001). Aid as a Catalyst. Development and Change, 32(4), Thorbecke, E. (2000). The evolution of the development doctrine and the role of foreign aid, In F. Tarp & P. Hjertholm (Eds.), Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future (pp ). London: Routledge. Lecture 10: Improving labour conditions and empowering workers - the case of social standards Tidspunkt 17/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Lone Riisgaard ( loner@ruc.dk ) Private social standards (PSSs) have proliferated rapidly across industries of interest to consumers in the Global North, such as garments, toys, forest products, oil and gas, agricultural products, chemicals and electronics. PSSs are being promoted along value chains in an attempt to improve company perform ance related to labour standards such as workers rights, discrimination and child labour. PSSs constitute a new system of regulating labour conditions at production sites, a system that involves private actors such as NGOs and business associations in setting, implementing and monitoring labour standards. These new and private systems of regulation however remain highly disputed and have raised a variety of questions regarding their efficiency in reaching stated objectives, their development potential, their inclusion/ exclusion of Southern stakeholders and their inherent limitations and potential negative side effects. In this session we will discuss these questions with regards to social standards in the cut flower industry. Riisgaard L Global Value Chains, Labor Organization and Private Social Standards: Lessons from East African cut flower industries. World Development 37: Barrientos S, Smith S Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems. Third World Quarterly 28: Suppl. readings: Blowfield, M. (2005). Corporate Social responsibility: reinventing the meaning of development? International Affairs 81(3): Lecture 11: Romanticising the poor? - the case of microcredit Tidspunkt 18/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Peter Kragelund ( jpk@ruc.dk ) Recently, policymakers, journalists and academics alike have paid significant interest in poor people as consumers and producers. A plethora of initiatives have been set in motion to integrate the poor in the global economy to facilitate social and economic development. The most well-known, and most highly debated, initiative is the case of microcredit. This session presents the evolution of the microcredit idea and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the approach in terms of facilitating structural transformation and bringing about long-term sustainable economic growth. Bateman, M. (2011) Microfinance as a development and poverty reduction policy: is it everything it s cracked up to be? Background Note March Overseas Development Institute. Available from: Campbell, G. (2010). Microfinancing the Developing World: how small loans empower local economies and catalyse neoliberalism's endgame. Third World Quarterly, 31(7), Hermes, N., & Lensink, R. (2011). Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability. World Development, 39(6), Supplementary readings: Karnani, A. (2009). Romanticising the poor harms the poor. Journal of International Development, 21(1), Morduch, Jonathan (2000), The Microfinance Schism, World Development, Vol. 28, No.4, pp Mosley, Paul and David Hulme (1998), Microenterprise Finance: Is There a Conflict between Growth and Poverty Alleviation? World Development, Vol. 26,

7 No.5, pp Chowdhury, A. (2009): Microfinance as a Poverty Reduction Tool A critical Assessment. DESA Working Paper No. 89. Available from: Workshop I Tidspunkt 18/ kl. 11:05-14:00 Underviser Karen Sau Jespersen ( karensj@ruc.dk ) Anders Riel Müller ( arm@ruc.dk ) Workshop I Tidspunkt 21/ kl. 09:00-16:00 Underviser Karen Sau Jespersen ( karensj@ruc.dk ) Anders Riel Müller ( arm@ruc.dk ) Lecture 12: Controversies in Development Tidspunkt 04/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Signe Arnfred ( signe@ruc.dk ) This theme explores the ways in which aspects of culture not only influences development, but also how development can only be understood through culture. The cultural dimensions of development are linked with political processes, i.e. the ways in which interpretations, perceptions and discourses are politically deployed, and consequently become sites of contestation and controversy Readings: Schech and Haggis, ch. 1: Thinking about culture and development + ch. 2: Bringing culture and development together, pp Jan Nederveen Pieterse 2010: The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power, in Pieterse: Development Theory. Deconstructions/Reconstructions, SAGE, pp Supplementary Readings: Dipesh Chakrabarty 2000: Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe, in Charkabarty: Provincializing Europe, Princeton University Press, pp 3-23 Binyavanga Wainaina: How to write about Africa, in Granta 92, Lecture 13: Islam and Social Movements Tidspunkt 04/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) Social change is not only intended by policy makers, but also provoked by popular pressure in a realm partially outside of state-reach. Authoritarianism in developing world is often pointed out as the root of social movements, giving voice to popular protest. Consequently, social movements are usually regarded as agents bringing democracy and justice. However, this is not always the case; social movements may resort to violent repression and social movements are not necessarily democratic in structure or ideas. Islamic social movements, often the basis for controversy and concern due to the anti-secular approach found among them, are in this lecture presented as formal and informal collective action outside the realm of formal politics mobilizing populations that otherwise have only little influence on the development of their society. What is the significance of references to Islam in a given movement? Social

8 movements should be approached as dynamic; in correspondence with state responses they have a trajectory or a life course in which they go through a number of transitions. Other questions posed during the lecture will be: How are social movements related to the concept of civil society? Is a normative outset for evaluating social movements unavoidable? How does it make sense to refer to nonmovements? Readings: Burnell, Randall & Rakner: Ch. 11: People Power and Alternative Politics, pp Wiktorowicz, Q., 2002: Islamic Activism and Social Movement Theory: A New Direction for Research. Mediterranean Politics, Autumn, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p Bayat, A., 2007: A Women's Non-Movement: What It Means to Be a Woman Activist in an Islamic State. Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, vol. 27: : Supplementary readings: Yanacopulus, H., 2002: Think local, act global: transnational networks and development. In Robinson, J.: Development and displacement. The Open University/ Oxford University Press Sutton Philip W. and Stephen Vertians, 2006: Islamic new social movements? Radical Islam, al-qa ida and Social movement Theory. Mobilization: An International Journal 11(1): Lecture 14: Gender, Sexuality, and Politics Tidspunkt 07/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Signe Arnfred ( signe@ruc.dk ) Postcolonial feminist critique has added new dimensions to existing controversies and debates regarding culture, gender, sexuality, development and politics. In this session notions of cultural relativism and cultural essentialism as linked to conceptions of gender and nation will be discussed. The lecture will also provide an overview of changing perceptions of women/gender in/and development, as well as a discussion of continuities and changes in conceptions of gender and sexuality in development discourse as compared to colonial approaches. Readings: Schech & Haggis, ch. 4: Feminism, development and culture, pp Uma Narayan 1998: Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: a Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism, in Hypatia vol 13 no 2, pp Supplementary reading: Signe Arnfred 2011: Gender in Colonial and Post-colonial Discourses, in S Arnfred: Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique, James Currey, pp Supplementary readings: Obioma Nnaemeka 2005: African Women, Colonial Discourses and Imperialist Interventions, in O Nnaemeka (ed): Female Circumscision and the Politics of Knowledge, Praeger, pp Lecture 15: Human rights and political culture Tidspunkt 07/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Louise Mubanda Rasmussen ( lnr@ruc.dk ) International NGOs champion human rights as a moral basis for development interventions, and especially in recent years with the flourishing of right-based approaches to development also as a basis for citizens in developing countries to make claims on the state. For local NGOs and activist groups in developing countries, rights talk provides a language that allows them to connect to transnational arenas and funding opportunities, to cast themselves as torchbearers and to potentially oppose the country s ruling elite. But does rights talk also provide marginalized groups with a discursive foundation to imagine a different political order? How are notions of human rights translated and how do human rights discourses feed into and shape political culture? Schech and Haggis, chapter 6: Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Globalization (38 pages) MERRY, S. E. (2006). Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle. American Anthropologist 108(1), (14 pages)

9 Supplementary readings: Dicklitch, Susan and Doreen Lwanga The Politics of Being Non-Political: Human Rights Organizations and the Creation of a Positive Human Rights Culture in Uganda. Human Rights Quarterly 25 (2): (28 pages) http./dx.doi.org/ /hrq Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte What are Human Rights: Four Schools of Thought Human Rights Quarterly 32 (1): Uvin, Peter From the right to development to the rights-based approach: how 'human rights' entered development. Development in Practice 17(4-5): Lecture 16: AIDS and Cultural Controversies Tidspunkt 11/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Louise Mubanda Rasmussen ( lnr@ruc.dk ) Drawing on the notion of AIDS as an "epidemic of signification", this lecture looks at how representations of AIDS are critical to shaping the possibilities of understanding, intervening and living with the disease. First, we will discuss representations of African AIDS as an example of colonial continuities in international development discourses on gender, sexuality and disease. Secondly, we look at the different ways various local religious groups may take on or contest these categories as an example of a globalized cultural controversy. Readings: Stillwaggon, Eileen Racial Metaphors: Interpreting Sex and AIDS in Africa. Development and Change 34 (5): 2003: pp (24 pages) Gusman, Allesandro HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal Churches and the Joseph Generation in Uganda. Africa Today 56 (1): (18 pages) Supplementary reading: James Pfeiffer, Condom Social Marketing, Pentecostalism, and Structural Adjustment in Mozambique: A Clash of AIDS Prevention Messages. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(1): (27 pages) MAQ_18-1_p77.pdf Rasmussen, Louise Mubanda and Lisa Ann Richey. The Lazarus Effect of AIDS Treatment: Lessons Learned and Lives Saved. Journal of Progressive Human Services 23 (3): Lecture 17: International Migration and Social Remittances Tidspunkt 11/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) International migration has obtained a prominent place on the political level, implying a reinforced effort to administer and control migration, signifying that migration issues cause concern, controversy and conflict. But how is migration relevant for development? And why is it necessary to drag in a socio-cultural level to understand the connections between migration and development? Migration consists of a number of processes that are interwoven and often cyclical, involving the sending as well as the receiving society. In the investigation of the consequences of migration for sending societies, economic remittances have hitherto had a prominent position as a means to reduce poverty, and recently they have re-emerged in development debates since they are assumed to constitute a form of development aid which in fact exceeds formal development aid. However, economic remittances should be seen in conjunction with social remittances, bringing the cultural dimension and consequently often populist concern about national identity as a coherent entity to the fore. The so-called meso-level providing a link between micro- and macro-processes as well as an explanation of migration patterns, seem relevant for an estimation of the significance of social remittances. At this level a transnational perspective, i.e. a focus on the social space formed across national borders, emerges as a consequence of migrants social activities and multiple relations of belonging. Readings: Levitt, Peggy, 1998: Social remittances: Migration-Driven Local-level Forms of Cultural Diffusion International Migration Review, vol. 32, Castles, S. & M.J. Miller, 2009 (fourth ed.): The age of migration. International Population Movements in the Modern world. London: Macmillan, pp. 1-19, available at: Page, B. & C. Mercer, 2010: Diasporas and Development in: Knott, K. & S. McLoughlin, eds.: Diasporas, Concepts, Intersections, Idnetities. New York: Zed Books, pp (available from RUb as e-book)

10 Supplementary reading: USAid Knowledge Services Center, 2008: Diaspora-Development Nexus: The role of ICT. PNADM028.pdf: 14 pages Faist, Thomas, 2000: The volume and dynamics of international migration and transnationalism. Oxford: Ch.2, pp Mohan, Giles, 2002: Development by the Diaspora. In Robinson, Jenny, ed.: Development and Displacement. Open University: pp Lecture 18: Globalized Cultural Controversies Tidspunkt 14/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) Cultural globalization implies that cultural controversies are not delimited to a national context, but become entangled in discourses that link with international policy discourses and tend to create or re-establish global cultural hierarchies. In other words, cultural globalization cannot be attributed to processes in a separate sphere of national culture but are involving other transborder activities, e.g. of political and economic character. Cultural globalization may in fact in itself be seen as producing cultural controversies, or as deeply embedded in conflict over resources, images and products in other words in power struggles. One conflictual issue in the peripheries of globalization is the extent to which indigenous or national cultures are estimated to survive the influx from ideas and cultural products that globalization brings along, or whether they need a renaissance, in terms of ethnicity, tradition, religion or other. Readings: Schech and Haggis, Ch. 3: Globalization and the politics of representation, pp Özbüdün, E. and E. F. Keyman, eds. 2002: Cultural globlization in Turkey. Actors, discourses, strategies. In Berger, P.L. and S.P. Huntington, eds: Many Globalizations. Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World, pp (Ebrary). Supplementary Readings: Bernstein, Ann, 2003: Globalization, Culture and Development. Can South Africa be more than an offshoot of the West? In Berger, P.L. and Huntington, S.P. eds.: Many Globalizations. Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World, pp (Ebrary) Pieterse, Jan Nederveen, 2000: Globalization North and South. Representations of Uneven Development and the Interaction of Modernities. Theory, Culture and Society, SAGE, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi, Vol. 17(1): Available at: Lecture 19: Global Flows, Local Appropriation Tidspunkt 14/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Bodil Folke Frederiksen ( bodilff@ruc.dk ) Words, images, music and ideas spread globally and are accessible everywhere. Access to global knowledge, style, and popular culture and contribute to new imaginaries and innovative agendas. How is this transport of global cultural flows organized? Which theories are suited to analyze the spread itself and local appropriations of cultural products and meanings? Presenting existing anthropological and cultural studies models of the globalization of culture, this lecture will also discuss an example of local negotiations of global popular culture: The reception of Indian films in Northern Nigeria and the creation of parallel modernities. Readings: Schech & Haggis, ch. 7: Culture, Development and the Information Revolution, pp Larkin, Brian, 1997, Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: media and the creation of parallel modernities, Africa 67 (3), pp Appadurai, Arjun, 1990: Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. Public Culture Spring 2(2): 1-24; doi: /

11 Lecture 20: Celebrities and 'cool' development Tidspunkt 17/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Louise Mubanda Rasmussen ( lnr@ruc.dk ) In the last two decades, celebrities have become more and more common in the stories and appeals produced by development NGOs to promote their work and encourage action. Some celebrities have even ventured into setting up their own charities or development organisations. In this lecture, we will discuss the context to this rise of 'celebritized' development by looking at changes in NGO communication practices over the last decades, in the context of NGO professionalization, increased competition and 'aid fatigue'. We will also discuss the implications of this celebritization: what are the implications for how agency between the North and the South is conceptualized - and what are the implications for how development is experienced and perceived in the South? Readings: Literature: Cameron, John and Anna Haanstra Development Made Sexy: how it happened and what it means Third World Quarterly 29 (8): (15 pages) Lilie Chouliaraki (2012): The Theatricality of Humanitarianism: A Critique of Celebrity Advocacy. Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, 9:1, 1-21 (21 pages) Supplementary readings: Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte (2008). Better (Red) than Dead? Celebrities, consumption and international aid. Third World Quarterly 29 (4): (19 pages) Vestergaard, A. (2013). Humanitarian appeal and the paradox of power. Critical Discourse Studies, Workshop II Tidspunkt 17/ kl. 11:05-14:00 / klynge (25) Underviser Adam Moe Fejerskov ( amoef@ruc.dk ) Masheti Wangoyi ( masheti@ruc.dk ) Workshop II Tidspunkt 20/ kl. 09:00-16:00 Underviser Adam Moe Fejerskov ( amoef@ruc.dk ) Masheti Wangoyi ( masheti@ruc.dk ) Lecture 21: The Politics of Development Tidspunkt 21/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Johan Fischer ( johanf@ruc.dk ) The aim of this lecture is to present and discuss contending approaches to the study of politics in developing countries. The politics of development deals with issues such as state formation, state-society interaction, the dynamics of nationhood, patron-client systems, ethnopolitics, corruption, state fragility, processes of democratisation, political conditionality, the security and development nexus, and new political movements. The lecture starts by looking at the classical liberal, conservative and Marxist-inspired theories and how they have explained political (under) development. Then it moves to theories that look at politics from a constructivist and postdevelopment perspectives. Finally, it turns to the issue about how history and institutions matters, which in turn has led to competing middle range theories on politics in the Global South. Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3. Edition. Introduction (pp. 1-10), Chapter 1 (pp ), Chapter 2 (36-51), Chapter 3 (pp )

12 Lecture 22: Nation, Nationalism and Ethnopolitics Tidspunkt 21/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Johan Fischer ( johanf@ruc.dk ) Nation building signifies the process of creating an idea of common descent, common language, tradition, culture or history to mobilize a population inhabiting or claiming belonging to a territory or a state. This approach consequently points at not only the political uses of traditions, languages and artefacts of culture but also their constructed nature, for political uses such as nationalism. More particularly traditions are invented to sustain the power relations between different parts of the population, claimed to in fact constitute different ethnicities. Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, ch. 7: Ethnopolitics and Nationalism, pp Burnell, Randall & Rakner 2011, Politics in the Developing World,, ch. 8: Religion, (pp ). Supplemantary Reading: Balibar, Etienne. "The Nation Form" Review XIII 3 (Summer 1990): Methods Day 1 Tidspunkt 24/ kl. 08:30-10:00 This session is meant to be supportive to the projective writing, so the focus is on how you make a project design, how you develop the research question, how you get the necessary data, how organise the theory and present an analytical framework, how you them analyse the data, and finally how you conclude. Methods Day 2 Tidspunkt 24/ kl. 10:15-12:00 Ekstern underviser Sacha Zurcher (RUB) This part of the methods course will introduce to the use of meta-search databases, use of review sources,and web-portals within development studies. Lecture 23: Dynamics of statehood Tidspunkt 25/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Tobias Hagmann ( thagmann@ruc.dk ) Where do states come from? While it is commonly agreed that states play a major role in either promoting or hindering development, their existence is often assumed rather uncritically. This session provides an overview of different theories of the state, introduces different types of states and emphasizes the need to understand statehood as a dynamics process. Rather than seeing states as homogenous, centralized and rational entities, we look at the multiple elements state practices, ideas and imaginaries that constitute statehood. Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3. Edition. Chapter 12 (pp ). Vu, Tuong. 2010: Studying the state through state formation, World Politics, Vol. 62, issue 1.

13 Lecture 24: Civil Society, Peoples Power and Alternative Politics Tidspunkt 25/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Lone Riisgaard ( loner@ruc.dk ) In the developing world over the last few decades people power movements emerged to challenge what is perceived to be undemocratic regimes as well as the dominant development logic promoted by the governments of developed countries, international economic institutions, and multinational corporations. In this lecture we will look at how social movements mobilize people and generate pressure for social change. We also investigate their critique of the dominant development logic and the alternative conceptions proposed. Furthermore, we trace the idea of citizen participation and activism or in other words civil society and how it relates to ideas about democratization. Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3. Edition. Chapter 10 (p ) Nyéléni declaration Robles, W (2001) "The landless rural workers movement (MST) in Brazil" - The Journal of Peasant Studies - Volume 28, Issue 2 Supplementary readings: McMichael, Philip Development and social change : a global perspective Ch. 8. Global Development and its Countermovements. Tarrow, Sidney (1998) Cycles of Contention (Chapter 9. Pp ), in Power in Movement. Social movements and Contentious Politics (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press. Chenoweth and Stephan Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Struggle. Columbia University Press. Lecture 25: Regime forms authoritarian, democratic and hybrid forms Tidspunkt 28/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Lars Buur ( lbuur@ruc.dk ) Democracy or parliamentary democracy are widespread in the developing world. But the degree of consolidation of democratic institutions and the flourishing of civil society varies a lot. Different forms of authoritarianism are behind the parliamentary democracy surface. The lecture will look into different forms of authoritarianism particularly in South East Asia and raise the question whether these forms of democracy are consolidating or in a wake of refashioning. The cases 21 (a) (b) and (c) illustrate forms of democracy in the developing world. Group discussion takes departure in these cases. Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3. Edition. Chapter 14 (pp ) and Chapter 21 (a), (b) and (c) (pp ). Garry Rodan and Kanishka Jayasuriya 2009, Capitalist development, regime transitions and new forms of authoritarianism in Asia. The Pacific Review, Vol. 22, No 1. March:pp Lecture 26: States in Conflict: Security and Development Tidspunkt 28/ kl. 10:45-12:45 Underviser Lars Buur ( lbuur@ruc.dk ) In the last decade, security and development agendas have increasingly merged as a response to the global war on terror. This lecture explores how this merging has taken place as well as the effects of it. What happens to the state in developing countries? What are the global repercussions and how are populations in the developing world coping in situations where security and issues of violence become paramount? While the lecture primarily explores contemporary issues of global power, it situates the merging of security and development in historical terms to understand how development and security have always been interrelated issues. Burnell, Randall and Rakner, eds Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 3. Edition. Chapter 13 (pp ) and Chapter 19 (pp ). Beall, Jo, Goodfellow, Thomas and Putzel, James Introductory Article: On the Discourse of Terrorism, Security and Development. Journal of International Development: 18(1): Maria Stern and Joakim Öjendal Mapping the Security-Development Nexus: Conflict, Complexity, Cacophony, Convergence? Security Dialogue, 41(1): 5-29.

14 Lecture 27: The Politics of Modernity in Asia Tidspunkt 31/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Johan Fischer ( johanf@ruc.dk ) Based on two case studies (Malaysia and Yemen) this theme explores the extreme diversity of development experiences and politics in contemporary Asia. The lecturers build on their own empirical research to argue that the relationship between politics, modernity and development in Asian contexts should be grounded in specific case studies in order to engage more abstract theories. Moreover, today s talk considers a number of additional Asian countries and cases that can inspire students when writing essays and projects. Readings: Burnell, Randall and Rakner eds. (2011) Politics in the Developing World: Case Studies: Experiences Compared, pp , Iraq s Triple Challenge: State, Nation, and Democracy, pp , Indonesia: Redistributing Power, pp , China and the Developing World, pp Lecture 28: Malaysia: Religion, politics and economy Tidspunkt 31/ kl. 10:45-12:45 This talk explores the interfaces between religion, politics and economy in contemporary Malaysia. Examining consumption practices in urban Malaysia, I show how diverse forms of Malay middle-class consumption (food, clothing, cars and Internet for example) are understood, practised and contested as a particular mode of modern Islamic practice. I illustrate ways in which the issue of proper Islamic consumption for consumers, the marketplace and the state in contemporary Malaysia evokes a whole range of contradictory Islamic visions, lifestyles and debates articulating what Islam is or ought to be. Moreover, based on a particular study of halal consumption among middle-class Malaysians in London, I discuss how this takes place between state, politics and religion. Fischer, Johan Boycott or Buycott? Malay Middle-Class Consumption Post-9/11. Ethnos 72 (1): Fischer, Johan We shift the channel when Mahathir appears : The political internet and censorship in Malaysia. Akademika 75(1): Fischer, Johan The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1: p THis sample chapter can be found at: Lecture 29: Arab Spring in Yemen: Real or cosmetic change? Tidspunkt 01/ kl. 08:30-10:30 Underviser Connie Carøe Christiansen ( conniecc@ruc.dk ) The barriers of development in Yemen labelled fragile state and an insecure spot on the maps constructed by the agenda of international security are numerous. Just like other Middle Eastern countries that experienced a popular uprising in 2011, the hopes for real change in Yemen was high, also among the women s movement. Whether the popular uprising will mean a rupture in long-reigning patterns of authoritarian and patronage patterns of rule is however still pending, the same goes for the question of how much more influence Islamic groups will gain in a future Yemen. These issues will be objects of discussion on the basis of studies of Middle Eastern and specifically Yemeni forms of rule undertaken before the Arab Spring. In these studies, the common designation of not only Yemeni, but also more widely Middle Eastern political change, is cosmetic democracies, alternately, façade democracies. Schlumberger, O., 2000: The Arab Middle East and the question of democratization: some critical remarks. Democratization 7:4, Alley, April Longley, 2010: The Rules of the Game: Unpacking Patronage Politics in Yemen. Middle East Journal, vol. 64, no. 3: Supplementary Readings: Ottaway, M. & Julia Choucair-Vizoso, eds. 2008: Beyond the Facade. Political Reform in the Arab World. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press Workshop III Tidspunkt 01/ kl. 11:05-14:00