Week 1 | History of Development as a concept and institution
Sheppard et. al (2002). “Knowing the Third World: The Development Decades” A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development.
Escobar, A. (2011). “Introduction: Development and the anthropology of modernity” in Encountering development: The making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.
Goldman, M. (2006). “Introduction: Understanding World Bank Power” in Imperial nature: The World Bank and struggles for social justice in the age of globalization. Yale University Press.
Other readings:
Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford University Press.
Week 2 | Neoliberal Governance & Globalization
Sheppard et. al (2002). “The Third World and Neoliberal Globalization” A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development.
Peck, J., & Tickell, A. (2002). Neoliberalizing space. Antipode,34(3), 380-404.
Goldman, M. (2006). “Green Neoliberalism” in Imperial nature: The World Bank and struggles for social justice in the age of globalization. Yale University Press.
Bakker, K. (2005). Neoliberalizing nature? Market environmentalism in water supply in England and Wales. Annals of the association of American Geographers, 95(3), 542-565.
Other readings:
Brenner, N., Peck, J., & Theodore, N. (2010). Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways. Global networks,10(2), 182-222.
Week 3 | Critical Takes
Mosse, D. (2005). “Introduction: The ethnography of policy and practice” in Cultivating development: An ethnography of aid policy and practice.
Ferguson, J. (1990). “Introduction”in The anti-politics machine: 'development', depoliticization and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. CUP Archive.
Li, T. M. (2007). “Introduction: The will to improve” inThe will to improve: Governmentality, development, and the practice of politics. Duke University Press.
Week 4 | Postcolonial Perspectives
Sheppard et. al (2002). “Knowing the Third World: Colonial Encounters” A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development.
Radcliffe, S. A. (2005). Development and geography: towards a postcolonial development geography?. Progress in Human Geography, 29(3), 291-298.
Sylvester, C. (1999). Development studies and postcolonial studies: disparate tales of the 'Third World'. Third World Quarterly,20(4), 703-721.
Other readings:
Robinson, J. (2003). Postcolonialising geography: tactics and pitfalls. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24(3), 273-289.
Raghuram, P., & Madge, C. (2006). Towards a method for postcolonial development geography? Possibilities and challenges. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27(3), 270-288.
Week 5 | Gender and Development
Schroeder, R. A. (1993). Shady practice: Gender and the political ecology of resource stabilization in Gambian garden/orchards. Economic Geography, 69(4), 349-365.
Chant, S., & Radcliffe, S. A. (1992). Migration and development: the importance of gender.
Hill, C., Thuy, P. T. N., Storey, J., & Vongphosy, S. (2017). Lessons learnt from gender impact assessments of hydropower projects in Laos and Vietnam. Gender & Development, 25(3), 455-470
Other readings:
Powell, A. (2017). Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies. Gender & Development, 25(3), 489-507.
Week 6 | Methodological approaches
Sheppard et. al (2002). “Measuring, Describing, and Mapping Difference and Development” A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development.
Connell, R. (2007). “Social science on a world scale” in Southern theory: Social science and the global dynamics of knowledge. Polity.
Hart, G. (2004). Geography and development: critical ethnographies. Progress in Human Geography, 28(1), 91-100.
Sultana, F. (2014). Doing development as a critical development scholar. Third World Quarterly, 35(3), 516-519.
Other readings:
Kapoor, I. (2004). Hyper‐self‐reflexive development? Spivak on representing the Third World ‘Other’. Third World Quarterly, 25(4), 627-647.
Week 7 | Science and Technology Studies
Goldman, M. (2006). “Producing green science inside headquarters.” Imperial nature: The World Bank and struggles for social justice in the age of globalization. Yale University Press.
Goldman, M. (2011) The Politics of Connectivity across Human-Occupied Landscapes: A Look at Corridors near Nairobi National Park, Kenya. Knowing nature: conversations at the intersection of political ecology and science studies. University of Chicago Press.
Mitchell, T. (2002). Can the mosquito speak?. Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernity, 19-53.
Other readings:
Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press.
Demeritt, D. (1998). Science, social constructivism and nature. Remaking reality: Nature at the millennium, 173-193.