301559 (v.2) Politics 228 - Approaches to Development

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
An introduction to discourses of development that have underpinned development policy and practice over the past 100 years. Among the discourses examined are colonial development thinking, modernisation theory, dependency and world-systems theory, marxist and neo-marxist approaches, neo-liberalism, and post-colonial development theory.