Development studies

Subject: Development studies.
Topic: ““Development means making a better life for everyone” (Peet and Hartwick, 2009). Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this definition by using a particular context, issue or case. “

A well-presented and convincing argument
Relevant examples, from secondary sources as well if desired, from your own experience
Logical development of idea
Clear structure (summary/overview; introduction; development of idea; examples/case studies; conclusion)
Clear conclusions
References

Starting
point: Definition of development, is development a useful word? How do we
understand better life?
What
constitutes good change?
How defines
what is better and for whom?
Alternative
realities? Alternatives that are being missed?
Address the question directly.
Make sure you use a case study or examples, can use one case study or different cases. Not just conceptualized arguments
Minimum of 10 references
Engagement
with the literature, not just use

Sources:

McKay, J. (2008) ‘Reassessing development theory: ‘modernisation’ and beyond’, in Kingsbury, D., Remenyi, J., McKay, J. and Hunt, J., Key issues in development, [chapter 2]. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,

Sultana, F. 2019. Decolonizing development education and the pursuit of social justice. Human Geography. Volume 12: No. 3: 31- 46.

Allen, T. and A. Thomas (eds). 2000. Poverty and development into the 21st Century. Oxford University Press.

Brooks, Andrew Richard. The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity. London:Zed Books, 2017.

Box, L. 2007. Understanding Development(s):The Development of Understanding. Mimeograph. Institute of Social Studies: The Hague. Available from the EADI Development Studies Dossier http://www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml?page=dossier_devstudies (Links to an external site.)

Carmody, P. 2019. Development Theory and Practive in a Changing World. London: Routledge

De Vries, P. 2007 ‘Don’t Compromise Your Desire for Development! A Lacanian/Deleuzian rethinking of the anti-politics machine’ Third World Quarterly 28, No. 1, pp 25 – 43,

Gasper, Des 2004 The Ethics of Development: From Economism to Human Development, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,

Kabeer, N. 1994. Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (Links to an external site.). Verso.
Li, Tania Murray. 2007 The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development and the Practice of Politics. Duke University Press

Rist, G. 2007 ‘Development as a buzzword’ Development in Practice, 17, 4-5: 485-491 [A brisk and lively discussion of development as a ‘toxic’ word]

Thomas, A. 2000 ‘Development as practice in a liberal capitalist world’ Journal of International Development12: 773-787

Sidaway, J. D. 2012. ‘Geographies of development: new maps, new visions?’ Professional Geographer 64 (1): 49-62.
Pailey, Robtel Neajai 2019. De-centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development. Development and Change 51(3): 729–745. DOI: 10.1111/dech.12550

Simon, D. Key Thinkers on Development, 2nd edition (edited volume) (Routledge, London and New York, 2019.

Simon, D. 2019. Holocaust Escapees and Global Development: Hidden histories (Zed Books,

Sumner, A. and Tribe, M., (2008) International development studies, theories and methods in research and practice, [chapter 2].London: Sage,

Sen, A. 1999. Development as freedom. Oxford University Press: New York.

Scott, J. 1998. Seeing like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. Yale University Press.

Toye, J. (1987) Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics. (Links to an external site.) Oxford: Blackwell.

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme- Annually Human Development Report. (Links to an external site.) New York: Oxford University Press for the UNDP.

Willis, K. (2011) Theories and Practices of Development (Links to an external site.), London: Routledge

World Bank (Annually) World Development Report (Links to an external site.). New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank
See also: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/sep/21/first-year-development-student-books (Links to an external site.)
https://soundcloud.com/oxsid-president/challenging-the-white-gaze-of-development (Links to an external site.)

Escobar, A. 1995. Encountering Development. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton Press.

Omar, Sidi. 2012. Rethinking Development from a Postcolonial Perspective. Journal of Conflictology. 3: 1: 42-49.

Sachs, W. (ed). 1992. The development dictionary. A guide to knowledge as power. Zed book. (a post development classic)

Peet, Richard and Elaine Hartwick. 2009. Theories of development. Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives. London: The Guilford Press . Chapter 1 . Development. Pp. 1- 19.

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