School of Development Studies Ambedkar University Delhi Course Outlines Course Code: SDS2DS202 Title: Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Development Type of Course: Elective Programme Title: M.A. Development Studies No of Credits: 4 Semester and Year Offered: Third Semester, Second Year Course Coordinator: Dr. Sumangala Damodaran Course Team: Dr. Sumangala, Damodaran and Dr. Babu P. Remesh Email of course coordinator: sumangala@aud.ac.in Pre-requisites: N.A. Aim: This course will introduce students to debates around industrialization and urbanization in the developing country context. The discussion on industrialization will include debates on appropriate strategies and experiences of industrialization in a broad sense and also deal with forms of industrial organization and labour processes such as Fordism-Taylorism, Flexible Specialization, and Post- Fordist production and labour process organization. It will also cover the ground on the relationship between enterprise and society in a developing country context. The discussions on industrialization will also bring in contemporary debates around urbanization processes, growth of informal settlements, and migration issues. Brief description of modules/ Main modules: 1. Industrial Development: Alternative Trajectories - (a) The older debates (b) New Perspectives; New International Division of Labour and New Industrial Paradigms - Industrial Clusters and Industrial Districts 2. Industrialisation and Labour: Taylorist and Post-Fordist Labour Management Systems; Industrialisation, Migration and Gender Issues 3. Perspectives on Third World Urbanisation 4. The Informal Sector Industrialization, Livelihoods 5. Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Production-Space Dynamics Assessment Details with weights: 1. Presentation (20%, mid September) 2. Term Paper (40%, mid October) 3. Term Paper (40%, mid November) 1
Reading List: John Humphrey: Introduction, World Development, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1995 Gabriel Palma: Four sources of de-industrialisation and a new concept of the Dutch Disease, presented at hsrc EGDI Roundtable: The Changing Character of Industrial Development: What Implications for Growth, Employment and Income Distribution? John Humphrey: Industrial Reorganization in Developing Countries: From Models to Trajectories, World Development, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1995 John Weiss: Industrialisation and Globalisation Theory and Evidence from Developing Countries, Verso, 2002, Chs 1 and 5 Additional Reference: Alice Sindzingre: The Relevance of the Concepts of Formality and Informality: A Theoretical Appraisal, EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki, Finland David Harvey (1990): Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization Reflections on "Post-Modernism" in the American City, Perspecta, Vol. 26, Theater, Theatricality, and Architecture, pp. 251-272 Breman, J. (1996) Footloose labour; working in India s informal economy. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2
Course Code: SDS2DS203 Title: Agrarian Change and Rural Development Type of Course: Elective Programme Title: MA Development Studies No of Credits: 4 Semester and Year Offered: Third Semester/Second Year Course Coordinator: Dr. Ishita Mehrotra Course Team: Dr. Imran Amin and Dr. Ishita Mehrotra Email of course coordinator: ishita.mehrotra@aud.ac.in Pre-requisites: NA Aim This elective aims to familiarise students with the major theoretical and policy debates on the role of agriculture in rural and overall development. At the end of the course, students should have a good grasp of the varied issues of agrarian change and rural development structural transitions in the pursuit of industrial development, rural social relations, land relations/reforms/grabs, food security and sovereignty, and labour relations. They should be able to relate these issues and policy outcomes to shifts in the theory and practice of development and build a critical analysis of the unfolding ground reality. Brief description of modules/ Main modules: 1. Role of Agriculture in Development 2. Agriculture, Poverty and Rural Development 3. Land, Land Reform and Land Grab 4. Rural Labour Markets and Unfree Labour: 5. Food Sovereignty, Food Security and Nutrition: 6. Agriculture and Globalisation GM Crops and Global Commodity Chains Assessment Details with weights: Term Paper 1: On module 1 and 2 (40%, mid September) Term Paper 2: On Module 3 and 4 (30%, mid October) Term Paper 3: On Module 5 and 6 (30%, mid November) Reading List: A. H. Akram Lodhi and C. Kay (eds.) Peasants and Globalization: Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question. London: Routledge, 239-261. World Bank (2007). Agriculture for Development, World Development Report 2008. Washington DC. 3
World Bank (2000), World Development Report, 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, Washington D.C., 2000. J. Breman, I. Guerin and A. Prakash (eds), India s Unfree Workforce: Of Bondage Old and New, New Delhi: Oxford University Press ADDITIONAL REFERENCE: Bernstein, H (2010). Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change Halifax: Fernwood, ch1-3 J W Mellor and G M Desai (eds), Agricultural Change and Rural Poverty: Variations on a Theme by Dharm Narain, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. Harriss-White, Barbara, 2008. Rural commercial capital: agricultural markets in West Bengal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, 2007. Report on conditions of work and promotion of livelihoods in the unorganised sector 4
Course Code: SDS2DS204 Title: Peace, Conflict and Development Type of Course: Elective Programme Title: MA in Development Studies No of Credits: 4 Semester and Year Offered: Third Semester/Second Year Course Coordinator and Team: Dr. Ivy Dhar Email of course coordinator: ivy@aud.ac.in Pre-requisites: NA Aim: The course aims to discuss peace, conflict and development from interdisciplinary perspective. There are different approaches to lens conflict, the conflict mapping exercise taken up in the course is to let students visualise and clarify conflicts from their own perspective and concentrate on detailing of relationships and consequence of conflicts.it aims to help understand the interplay of macro and micro conflicts, including resource conflicts. It takes up discourses of security, violence, protests and resistance for critical analysis. It shall look at various approaches of conflict management, resolution, transformation and activism towards building peace, focusing on gender mainstreaming. For deeper understanding, students shall be asked to engage with case studies of India and other parts of the world. Brief description of modules/ Main modules: Topics to be covered are the following- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace, Conflict and Development Conflict Mapping State and Internal Conflicts Understanding Violence, Resistance, and Protests Resource Conflicts and Development Peace Building and Conflict Transformation Gender and Peace Activism Assessment Details with weights: Class Test (30% weightage, in mid-september) Literature Review (30% weightage, in mid-october) Term Paper Conflict mapping/case Study (40%, mid-november) Reading List (Indicative): Kaldor, Mary (2013): In Defense of New Wars in Stability, Vol 2. No.1. pp 1-16. 5
Murshed, S. Mansoob (2002): Conflict, Civil War and Underdevelopment: An Introduction in Journal of Peace Research, Vol 39. No.4. pp 387-393. Sen, Amartya (2008): Violence, Identity and Poverty in Journal of Peace Research, Vol 45. No.5. pp 5-16. Baviskar, Amita ed.( 2008): Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power [selected chapters] (New Delhi: Oxford Publications) ADDITIONAL REFERENCE: Jacoby, Tim (2008): Dimensions in Understanding Conflict and Violence: Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 18-33. Guttman, Matthew C. (1993): Rituals of Resistance: A Critique of the Theory of Everyday Forms of Resistance in Latin American Perspectives, Spring,Vol 77. No.20. pp 74-92. Muniruzzaman, ANM (2014): Human Security in South Asia: Vision 2025 in Peace and Security Review, First Quarter, Vol 6. No.11. pp. 23 55. Bavinck, Maarten, Pellegrini, Lorenzo and Mostert, Erik ed. (2014): Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South:ConceptualApproaches(London: Taylor & Francis Group) Ahmed,Sara (2004): Sustaining Peace, Re-Building Livelihoods: The Gujarat Harmony Project in Gender and Development, Vol 12. No.3. pp. 94-102. 6
Course Code: SDS2DS205 Title: Gender and Development Type of Course: Elective Programme Title: MA in Development Studies No. of Credits: Four Semester and Year Offered: Semester Three; Year Two of MA Degree Course Coordinator and Team: Dr. Nandini Nayak Email of course coordinator: nandini@aud.ac.in Pre-requisites: Completion of Semester 1 and 2 coursework Aim: This course aims to introduce students to theories, concepts, debates, policy and practice in the field of gender and development. This course discusses the theoretical underpinnings of institutional analysis as a framework to engage with the field of gender and development. The course then moves on to analyse how the gender dynamics of power and inequality play out in the social institutions of households, markets and states and within the arena of civil society. This is correlated with discussions on the role of feminist research, advocacy and activism in shaping development policy and practice. Key Learning Objectives to explore the evolution of the concept of gender in development theory to understand the institutional dynamics of power in relation to gender inequality to critically assess development policy and practice to analyze how feminist advocacy and activism seeks to influence and transform development practice Brief description of key modules: Module 1: Conceptual issues in Gender and Development: The concept of gender in mainstream development discourse, including debates related to the terms Women in Development and Gender and Development. Module 2.1: Introduction to an institutional framework for studying Gender and Development : This module introduces a framework of analysis, of looking at social institutions viz. the household, the market, the state and civil society - from a gender lens. Module 2.2: The household as a gendered institution Module 2.3: Gender and labour markets Module2.4: Gender, States and Governance Module 2.5: Gender, Social Movements and Civil Society Assessment Details with weights: Two Response Notes, written in class 30% weightage each; and one Term Paper, 40% weightage. 7
Reading List: (See below for indicative readings, in alphabetical order; a detailed reading list will be provided in class): Agarwal, Bina, 1997, Bargaining and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household, Feminist Economics, Vol.3, No.1:51. Alvarez, S.E. 2009, Beyond NGO-ization? Reflections from Latin America Development. Vol 52: 175-194 Connell, R.W., 1990, The State, Gender and Sexual Politics: Theory and Appraisal Theory and Society Vol. 19 (5): 507-544 Kabeer, N., 1994, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, London: Verso. Kabeer, N. and Subrahmanian, R. 1999 (eds.) 2000. Institutions, Relations and Outcomes London: Zed Books. Kapur, R., & Crossman, B., 1996, Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagement with Lawin India. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Khullar, M., 2005, Writing the Women's Movement: A Reader: Zubaan. Kumar, R., 1997, The History of Doing. New Delhi: Zubaan. Menon, N., 2004, Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law. Urbana:Permanant Black and University of Illinois Press. Molyneux, M., 1998, Analysing women s movements in C Jackson, R Pearson (eds) Feminist Visions of Development, London: Routledge. Sen, Amartya, 1991, 'Gender and Cooperative Conflicts' in I. Tinker (ed) Persistent inequalities. Women and world development Oxford: Oxford University Press 8