Geog 335 – Autumn 2007

Geographies of the Developing World

Reading and Assignment Calendar – Part I (Revised)

Below is the list of readings and their due dates. You will be responsible for all assigned readings. I will assign additional readings as the quarter progresses.

Note: It is very important that you remember which author writes what. Keep in mind you are not reading facts. Rather, you are reading arguments, so noting who argues what, and provides what kind of evidence in support of his/her argument, is a fundamental part of scholarship.

Introductions

Week 1 / Course Introduction
Who we are, why we’re here. Tensions in International Development.
Thu, Sep 27 / [No Readings Assigned}

What and where is development?

Week 2 / Introduction to Development and to Critical Development Studies
Tue, Oct 2 /
  1. Potter, Robert., Binns, Tony., Elliot, Jennifer., and Smith, David. (2004) “Chapter 1: Questioning Development.”Geographies of Development 2nded. New York: Pearson Press. (pp. 3-48).
  2. Lawson, Victoria (2007)“Chapter 1: Development as Situated Knowledge.” Making Development Geography. New York: OxfordUniversity Press. (pp. 1-31).
  3. Adams, W.M. (1990) “Chapter 1: The Dilemma of Sustainability.”Green Development. New York: Routledge. (pp. 1-21).

Thu, Oct 4 /
  1. Escobar, A. (1995) Chapter 2: The Problemitization of Poverty.” Encountering Development. Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press. (pp. 21-54).
  2. Slater, David. (1995) “Trajectories of Development Theory: Capitalism, Socialism, and Beyond.” Geographies of Global Change. RJ Johnston, et. al., eds.Oxford: Blackwell. (pp. 63-78)

Reading and Assignment Calendar – Part I (Revised)

Development as Intervention

Week 3 / The “Development Project” Since WWII
Tue, Oct 9 / Modernization theory
  1. Rostow, W. W. (1960) The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto - Chapter 2.
  2. Lawson Ch. 3 “Development as Interventions – From Modernisation to Neo-liberalisation.”
  3. Slater, David (2004) ‘Modernizing the Other and the Three Worlds of Development’ in Geopolitics and the Postcolonial: Rethinking North-South relations (Oxford, Blackwell) pp57-85

Thu , Oct 11 / Dependency theory
  1. Ferraro, Vincent (1996) “Dependency Theory: An Introduction.” From accessed September 27, 2007.
  2. Frank, A. G. (1966) ‘The Development of Underdevelopment’, version reprinted in Wilber, Charles and Jameson, Kenneth (eds) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment (McGraw-Hill) pp107-117
  3. Rodney, Walter (1981) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Washington, HowardUniversity Press) pp 3-29
  4. Velasco, Andres. (2002) “Dependency Theory a Generation Later.” From accessed on September 27, 2007.

Week 4
Tue, Oct 16 / Neo-liberal Approaches to Development
  1. Slater, David (2004) ‘The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Expansion of Western Power’ in Geopolitics and the Postcolonial: Rethinking North-South relations (Oxford, Blackwell) pp. 86-113.
  2. Chase, Jaquelyn (2002) ‘Introduction: The Spaces of Neoliberalism in Latin America’ in The Spaces of Neoliberalism (Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press) pp. 1-19
Reactions to Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Globalization
  1. Danaher, Kevin (1994) ‘Introduction’ in Kevin Danaher (ed) Fifty Years is Enough: The Case against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (MA: South End Press) pp 1-5.
  2. Kohl, Benjamin (2002) ‘Stabilizing neoliberalism in Bolivia: Popular Participation and Privatization’ Political Geography 21 pp. 449-472.
  3. Willis, Katie (2005) ‘Chapter 7: Globalization and Development: Problems and Solutions?’ Theories and Practices of Development (New York: Routledge) pp 173-199.

Thu, Oct 18 /
  1. George, Susan (1988) ‘How much is $1 Trillion?’ in A Fate Worse Than Debt (London, Penguin Books) pp. 11-29
  2. George, Susan (1988) ‘The International Monetary Fund: Let them eat special drawing rights’ in A Fate Worse Than Debt (London, Penguin Books) pp. 47-57
  3. Rich, Bruce (1994) ‘World bank/IMF: 50 Years is Enough’ in Kevin Danaher (ed) Fifty Years is Enough: The Case against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (MA: South End Press) pp. 6-13
  4. Potter, George Ann (2000) “The more we pay the more we owe” and “the less we have”, in Deeper than Debt: Economic Globalization and the Poor (Russell Press, Notts) pp. 56-99
  5. Monbiot, George (14/6/2005) Spin, Lies and Corruption [accessed online at

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