Syllabus/achievement requirements

SOSANT2530: Development

Books

Ferguson and Mosse: books to be bought in a bookstore or borrowed at the library

@ Arce, Alberto and Norman Long (eds.): Anthropology, Development and Modernities, 2000. London: Routledge. READ: Chapter 6 (30 pages). Download from BIBSYS.

@ Eriksen, T.H.: Small Places Large Issues: an introduction to social and cultural anthropology, Third edition, 2010. Pluto Press. READ the following chapters 1, 2, 3 (40 pages). Download PDF-file.

@ Ferguson, James: The anti-politics machine, 1994. University of Minnesota Press. READ the book, 336 pages (paperback).

@ Hanlon, Joseph: Just Give Money to the Poor, 2010. Kumarian Press. READ the following chapters: 1, 2, 3, 9 (72 pages). Download PDF-file.

@ Lyon, Sarah M. and Mark Moberg: Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies, 2010. New York: New York University Press. READ: Chapter 1, "What's fair?" (24 pages). Chapter in i E-book.

@ Mosse, David: Cultivating development: an ethnography of aid policy and practice, 2005. Pluto Press. READ following chapters: 1, 2, 4, 7 and 9 (150 pages).

@ Yarrow, Thomas: Development Beyond Politics. AIDS, Activism and NGOs in Ghana, 2111. Palgrave, MacMillan. READ chapter 1 : pp 19-44. Download PDF-file.

Articles in kompendium

Kompendium has to be purchased from Kopiutsalget (groundfloor Akademika). Remember to bring your studentcard

Brigg, M.: "Post-development, Foucault and the colonisation metaphor" in Third World Quarterly, 23(3), 2002. Pp 421-36 (15 pages).

Escobar, A.: "Anthropology and the Development Encounter: The Making and Marketing of Development Anthropology" in American Ethnologist, Vol 18, 1991. Pp 658 -682 (24 pages).

Fairhead, James and Melissa Leach: "Misreading Africa’s Forest History" in Edelman, Marc and Angelique Haugerud: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization. From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism, 2005. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.. Chapter 21, pp 282-291 (9 pages).

Friedman, J: "On text and con-text: towards an anthropology in development" in Yarrow, Tom and Soumhya Venkatesan: Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique, 2012. Oxford, New York: Berghahn books. Pp 23-41 (18 pages).

Green, M.: "Globalizaing development in Tanzania- Policy franchising through participatory project management" in Critique of Anthropology, 23 (2), 2003. Pp 123-143 (20 pages).

Hobart, M.: "Introduction: The Growth of Ignorance?" in M. Hobart (ed.): An Anthropological Critique of Development : The Growth of Ignorance, 1993. London: Routledge. Pp 1-30 (30 pages).

Leys, Colin: "The rise and fall of development theory" in Edelman, Marc and Angelique Haugerud: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism, 2005. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing. Chapter 5, pp 109-126 (17 pages).

Lie, J.H.S.: "Post-Development Theory and the Discourse-Agency Conundrum" in Social Analysis, 52(3), 2008. Pp 118-137 (19 pages).

Online articles

Elyachar, J: "Mappings of Power: The State, NGOs, and International Organizations in the Informal Economy of Cairo" in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45(03), 2003. Pp 571-605 (34 pages). PDF-FIL jstor.org.

Ferguson, J: "The Uses of Neoliberalism" in Antipode 41(1), 2010. Pp 166-184 (18 pages). PDF-FIL onlinelibrary.wiley.com.

Lazar, Sian: "Education for Credit" in Critique of Anthropology 24(3), 2004. Pp 301-319 (18 pages). PDF-FIL sagepub.com.

Molyneux, Maxine: "Gender and the silences of social capital: Lessons from Latin America" in Development and Change 33(2), 2002. Pp 167-188 (21 pages). PDF-FIL onlinelibrarywiley.com.

Rajak, Dinah: "'HIV/AIDS is our business': the moral economy of treatment in a transnationl mining company" in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (3), 2010. Pp 551-571 (20 pages). PDF-fil onlinelibrary.wiley.com.

Welker, Marina: ""Corporate Security Begins in the Community:” Mining, the Corporate Social Responsibility Industry, and Environmental Advocacy in Indonesia" in Cultural Anthropology 24(1), 2009. Pp 142-179 (37 pages). PDF-fil onlinelibrary.wiley.com.

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