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Introduction to Development Studies - JPM534
Anglický název: Introduction to Development Studies
Zajišťuje: Katedra mezinárodních vztahů (23-KMV)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2014
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (30)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: nevyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
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Garant: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D.
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Anotace - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)
This interdisciplinary course introduces students in development studies and it helps them to understand social changes in the global South as well as the transformations of North-South relations with a special focus on international development cooperation.
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: 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.

Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: 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.

Metody výuky - angličtina
Poslední úprava: 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.

Požadavky ke zkoušce - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (19.09.2012)
  • Active and regular participation in class based on 50-100 words summaries of reading assignments (40%)

  • Short group presentation (10 minutes) (10%)

  • A structured research plan of the essay presented by e-mail by the 6thweek (10%)

  • A 4,000 to 5,000 words essay presented by e-mail by the 12th week (40%)

Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: 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)

  • Reading 2a: Rostow, Walt W. [1960] The Stages of Economic Growth. In: DR.
  • Reading 2b: Escobar, Arturo [1995]: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. In: DR.

3. Methodology and methods of development studies (interdisciplinarity and normativity of development studies, qualitative measures, participative research, research biases and ethical issues)

  • Reading 3a: Mikkelsen, Britha (2005): Methods for development work and research: a new guide for practitioners. New Dehli: Sage, pp. 87-123.
  • Reading 3b: Narayan, Deepa at al. (1999): Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices From 57 Countries. Washington: The World Bank, pp. 26-51.


II. Disciplinary aspects of development and poverty

4. Economic foundations of development studies and their critique (development economics, macro and micro approaches to agricultural and informal markets, globalisation)

  • Presentation 4: Quantitative measures of poverty and inequality
  • Reading 4a: World Bank (2008) World  Development Report 2008. Washington: The World Bank, pp. 26-44.
  • Reading 4b: Collier, Paul (2001): On Missing the Boat: The Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy. In: DR, pp. 491-500.

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)

  • Presentation 5: Colonialism and neocolonialism
  • Reading 5a: Greig, Alastair, David Hulme and Mark Turner (2007) Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 100-128.
  • Video 5b: National Labor Committee (2003): Hidden Face of Globalization, 34 minutes.

6. The dominant development paradigm (Millennium Development Goals, regional differences, critique, post-MDGs)

  • Presentation 6: Case study on MDGs in country perspective
  • Reading 6a: United Nations (2012): The Millennium Development Goals Report 2012. New York: United Nations.
  • Reading 6b: Ziai, Aram (2011) The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future? Third World Quarterly 32(1):27-43.

7. Politics, culture and development (cultural aspects of development, anthropology and development, politics and development)

  • Presentation 7: Developmental state and failed state (two case studies)
  • Reading 7a: Miner, Horace (1956) "Body ritual among the Nacirema" American Anthropologist 58(3): 503-507.
  • Reading 7b: Ferguson, James (1997) The Anti-politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. In: DR.

8. Gender, human rights, environment and development (gender and human rights aspects of development, development and environment, including climate change)

  • Presentation 8:  Human rights and development, right to development, rights-based development
  • Video 8a: Plattner, Patricia (1998): Made In India: SEWA in Action.
  • Reading 8b: Dyson, Tim (2005) On Development, Demography and Climate Climate: The End of the World as We Know It. In. DR.


III. Development cooperation and case study

9. International development cooperation (definition, Official Development Assistance, typology, actors, trends, criticism)

  • Presentation 9: The role of OECD Development Assistance Committee in development cooperation
  •   Reading 9a: OECD DAC (2012) Development Co-operation Report, pp. tba.
  • Reading 9b: Frank, Leonard (1997) The Development Game. In Majid Rahnema nad Victoria Bawtree (eds.): The Post-Development Reader London, Zed Books, pp. 263 - 273.

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)

  • Presentation 10: Chinese aid and Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation
  • Reading 10a. CONCORD (2012) AidWatch
  • Reading 10b. Two chapters from CONCORD (2011) Spotlight on EU Policy Coherence for Development

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)

  • Presentation 11: Quantitative analysis of the Czech Official Development Assistance
  • Reading 11a: Horký Ondřej (2010): Development Cooperation in the Czech Foreign Policy In: Michal Kořan (ed.): Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009: Analysis. Prague: Institute of International Relations, pp. 347-361.
  • Reading 11b: Horký Ondřej (2012): The Transfer of the Central and Eastern European ‘Transition Experience’ to the South: Myth or Reality? Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 13(1):17-32.

12.  Case study of a Czech development project (presentation of a development project and its analysis by a development practitioner, discussion)

  • Reading 12: Tba as a background to the project presented
Vstupní požadavky - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Ing. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň , Ph.D. (13.09.2011)

No prerequisites required.

 
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