Development and Post-Development Course Instructor: ` Class Time: Percy C. Hintzen SIPA 330 email: phintzen@fiu.edu Thursday: 5:00 7:40 pm. SIPA 503 Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30 6:00 pm SIPA 330 Course Description Modernity, Capitalism and Power Transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in content, this aspect of the course will focus on the theories and materialities of power, domination, ideology and resistance and their relationships to capitalist modernity. Class discussions will be grounded in the analytics of postcolonial theory and cultural studies. As such, there will be significant critical theoretical focus on the production of subjectivities and a critical engagement with modernity. We will explore the works of scholars whose theoretical engagements are with power, domination, ideology, and resistance, their theoretical debates about capitalist modernity, imperial thought, categories of subjection, resistance, and with attempts to apply propositions about power, domination, subjectivity, and resistance to selected political economies in the Global South. Political and Economic Development: Theory and Ideology We will look at the foundations and meanings of development, how it is described and represented as an historical process, its manifestations in time, its advocates, and those who contest and challenge its rationales and claims. This will be done against a backdrop of empirical and substantive representations of the actualities of development outcomes, its organization, and practices. While the focus is on the global south, development is understood as a global process. As such, it will be examined in its global context. We will employ a critical approach to development engaged with from the perspective of political economy. We will deal particularly with the relationship among theory, ideology and practice. We will contrast classical and orthodox theory and practice with critical approaches, examine outcomes of development practice, both positive and negative, through a focus on globalization, and explore challenges to developmental policy and practice and proposals for alternative approaches. Case Studies in Globalization and Development Here the focus will be on the global economy and its consequences for the populations of the global south, particularly the real consequences of neo-globalization (i.e. its post-nineteen eighty neoliberal form); its roots in corporate capitalist expansion, its consequences for the lives of the majority of the world s population that suffers from its negative effects; its impact on the environments in which this majority lives; and the possibilities for alternative futures organized around sustainability, equity, justice, and peace. Discussions will be framed around alternative perspectives on development. We will examine corporate globalism and popular resistance to it. Page 1 of 6
Required Readings A Class Reader will be prepared for excerpted reading. Shorter excerpts will also be provided on the class website. Immanuel Wallerstein. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Duke University Press. 2004 Alice H. Amsden. Escape from Empire. MIT Press 2007 Vandana Shiva. Earth Democracy. Southend Press 2005 Philip McMichael. Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective. 4th Ed,. Pine Forge Press, 2008. Arundhati Roy. Power Politics. Southend Press, 2001. 2 nd ed Arturo Escobar. Encountering Development: The making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press (October 10, 2011) Amartya Sen. Development as Freedom [Paperback]. Anchor; Reprint edition (August 15, 2000) Achille Mbembe. On the Postcolony. University of California Press, 2001 Suzanne Bergeron. Fragments of Development. University of Michigan Press, 2006. Immanuel Kant excerpt from his essay, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (1764). Immanuel Kant. Source: Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784). Translation by Lewis White Beck. From Immanuel Kant, On History, The Bobbs- Merrill Co., 1963. Transcribed: by Rob Lucas J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite (editors). The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (Paperback). Blackwell 2007. pp. 1 15; Part 1 (CHAPTERS 1-4). pp. 19-67 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present Harvard University Press, 2003. Chapter 1: Philosophy pp 1 111. David Harvey. The Limits to Capital. Verso 2006: Crisis in the Space Economy of Capitalism: The Dialectics of Imperialism Ch 13. And Afterword. pp: 411 451. Fredric Jameson. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press 2001, Ch 8. Postmodernism and the Market. Pp 260-278. Percy C. Hintzen. Desire and the Enrapture of Capitalist Consumption: Product Red, Africa, and the Crisis of Sustainability. The Journal of Pan African Studies. Vol. 2 no.6, September 2008. Pp 77-91 Page 2 of 6
Percy C. Hintzen. After Modernization: Globalization and the African Dilemma in Modernization as Spectacle in Africa_ Edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh. Indiana University Press, 2014 (Forthcoming). James Ferguson. Global Shadows: Africa in the neoliberal world order. Introduction, pp 1 23; Ch 6, pp. 155-175; Ch 7, pp. 176-193; Ch 8, pp. 194 210. Course Requirements Class Presentation 30% Class Participation 20% Final Paper 50% Class Presentation: Theory: Each student will be required to be the discussion leader on at least one class session focused on critical analysis of the assigned readings. Application Each student will be required to Final Paper: Using the theoretics and analytics derived from the course readings as well as other critical readings relating to developmentalism and globalism, each student will be required to write a paper, equivalent in length, substance, and style to those in major journals, that examines, exhaustively, some aspect of the sociology of the global political economy. The focus of the paper must be centered on issues that relate to the course readings. The paper is due on the Wednesday after last day of classes (April 25 th ) in my office. Class Structure The class will be divided into two presentations and discussions. The first will be a presentation of the readings. Each student will be called upon to contribute to this theoretical discussion. Each student will be expected to write a brief critical summary of each week s readings, focusing not on regurgitation but on critical engagement and raising critical questions to be discussed in class. Each student is required to circulate the summary to each other student in the class by 12 noon on the Tuesday prior to the class meeting. Each student will serve as discussion leader for at least one presentation. A student will be designated to lead the second session. It will be dedicated to the application of the theoretical discussion and/or substantive issues of the assigned reading or to a set of empirical cases chosen by the designated student. The student will choose a particular case study for presentation and discussion (the reading upon which the presentation is based must be circulated one week prior to the discussion). It is advised that the two presentations (the discussion of the reading and the application to a substantive case study) be done in the same session.each student will be expected to participate in the general discussion of the relationship of theory to the substantive presentations. Students need to indicate, during the first meeting, when they will do each of the presentations. At some point during the class, each student will be expected to discuss a research problem that is relevant to the issues of the class. This could be related to the final paper. Page 3 of 6
Class Assignments August 29th Introduction to Class General Introductions I. Philosophy and the Foundations of Development Thought: The emergence of Developmentalist Thinking. Sept 5th Philosophy, Foundations, and Colonial Practice J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite (editors). The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (Paperback). Blackwell 2007. pp. 1 15 ; Part 1 (CHAPTERS 1-4). pp. 19-67 Immanuel Kant. Excerpt from essay, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (1764). Provided on Class Website Immanuel Kant. Source: Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784). Translation by Lewis White Beck. F rom Immanuel Kant. On History, The Bobbs- Merrill Co., 1963. Transcribed: by Rob Lucas. Provided on Class Website September 12th The Development Encounter and the Culture of Development Reading: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present Harvard University Press, 2003. Chapter 1: Philosophy pp. 1 111. II. Development, Colonialism and the History of the Global Capitalist System September 19th Development, Capitalism, and the Global System Reading: Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Duke University Press. 2004. The Entire Book III. The Discourse of Development and the Logic of Capitalism September 26 th Deconstructing Development; Reading: Arturo Escobar. Encountering Development: The making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press (October 10, 2011). The Entire Book. October 3 rd Contradictions and Crisis Reading: David Harvey. The Limits to Capital. Verso 2006: Chapter 13, Crisis in the Space Economy of Capitalism: The Dialectics of Imperialism. and Afterword. pp. 411 451. Page 4 of 6
Fredric Jameson. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press 2001. Ch 8. Postmodernism and the Market. pp. 260-278. October 10 th Discourse, Governmentality, and Difference. Suzanne Bergeron. Fragments of Development. University of Michigan Press, 2006. The Entire Book. IV. History, Globalization, and Development October 17th Dependency and the Development Project Philip McMichael. Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective. 4th Ed. Pine Forge Press, 2008. The Entire book October 24 th From Development Heaven to Imperial Hell. Alice H. Amsden. Escape from Empire. MIT Press 2007 The Entire Book October 31st Postcolonialism and the Crisis of Colonial Commandment Achille Mbembe. On the Postcolony. University of California Press, 2001 The Entire book November 7 h The New Order of Development Disorder James Ferguson. Global Shadows: Africa in the neoliberal world order. Introduction pp 1 23; Ch 6, pp. 155-175; Ch 7 pp 176-193, Ch 8 pp 194 210. November 14 st The Crisis of Enrapture Arundhati Roy. Power Politics. Southend Press, 2001. 2 nd ed. The Entire book. Percy C. Hintzen. Desire and the Enrapture of Capitalist Consumption: Product Red, Africa, and the Crisis of Sustainability. The Journal of Pan African Studies. Vol. 2 no.6, September 2008. pp. 77-91 Percy C. Hintzen. After Modernization: Globalization and the African Dilemma In Modernization as Spectacle in Africa. Edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh. Indiana University Press, 2014 (Forthcoming). V. Towards a Post-development Order. November 21 st Alternative Definition. Amartya Sen. Development as Freedom [Paperback]. Anchor; Reprint edition (August 15, 2000). The Entire Book Page 5 of 6
December 5 th Alternative Futures Vandana Shiva. Earth Democracy. Southend Press 2005 The Entire book December 12th FINAL PAPER DUE Page 6 of 6