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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)
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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)
This introductory course gives the students an insight into the interdisciplinary research field of development studies. It provides them with the core theories, methods and concepts as well as basic information on the ongoing social changes in the global South and the structure of North-South relations. In practical terms, the course serves as an entry point to development cooperation in the context of international and global politics: the graduate will be able to use the acquired knowledge in diplomacy, development agencies, international and non-governmental organizations and the EU institutions. At the same time, the course will provide her/him with the tools for a critique of the contemporary development discourses and policies. The appropriate teaching methods will strengthen the skills of the students in terms of text and video analysis, critical thinking, academic writing and research plan management as well as the presentation and teamwork skills. The course starts by presenting the basic concepts, theories and methodology of development studies. Thereafter, it focuses on the individual aspects of the multi-faceted development and poverty phenomena, and it shifts to development cooperation as the most visible form of international development. The course concludes with a case study presented by a development practitioner with relevant experience from the South. |
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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)
Obligatory readings/videos make part of the syllabus and will be made available on-line. A part of the texts are available in Chari, Sharad and Stuart Corbridge (2008, ed.). The Development Reader. London: Routledge (also "DR"). The remaining texts of the reader are recommended readings as well as the texts collected in Rahnema, Majid and Victoria Bawtree (1997, ed.): Post-Development Reader. London: Zed Books. |
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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)
The course is taught as a combination of lecture and small group seminar, with the emphasis on students’ participation. A typical session will consists in a short introduction by the lecturer, short presentations by the students, and common work on the reading assignments/videos in form of group discussions and/or group and individual activities. |
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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (19.09.2012)
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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (01.10.2012)
I. Concepts, theory and methodology 1. Introduction: basic concepts (development, poverty, inequality, global South) 2. Theories of development (modernization, dependency, sustainable and human development, participative approaches, postdevelopment)
3. Methodology and methods of development studies (interdisciplinarity and normativity of development studies, qualitative measures, participative research, research biases and ethical issues)
4. Economic foundations of development studies and their critique (development economics, macro and micro approaches to agricultural and informal markets, globalisation)
5. Structural inequalities of the global order (colonialism and its impacts, institutional framework for the movement of goods, services, capital, people and knowledge, Structural Adjustment Programmes)
6. The dominant development paradigm (Millennium Development Goals, regional differences, critique, post-MDGs)
7. Politics, culture and development (cultural aspects of development, anthropology and development, politics and development)
8. Gender, human rights, environment and development (gender and human rights aspects of development, development and environment, including climate change)
9. International development cooperation (definition, Official Development Assistance, typology, actors, trends, criticism)
10. Multilateral and EU development policy (architecture, international organizations, poverty reduction strategies, EU development policy, policy coherence for development, notable traditional and new state and private donors)
11. Development cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe (overview, specificity of the Czech development discourse, institutional frameworks, actors and relations, links to foreign policy, impacts)
12. Case study of a Czech development project (presentation of a development project and its analysis by a development practitioner, discussion)
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Last update: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)
No prerequisites required. |