301556 (v.2) Anthropology 324 - Approaches to Development

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Credits:	50.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	9912 (v.4) Anthropology 317 - Applied Anthropology 9914 (v.4) Anthropology 217 - Applied Anthropology 11544 (v.3) Geography 320 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World 11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World 301557 (v.2) Geography 223 - Approaches to Development 301558 (v.2) Geography 323 - Approaches to Development 301561 (v.2) Anthropology 225 - Development Policy in Practice
Syllabus:	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. Students must produce a major research project.
Unit Outcomes:	To provide students with an understanding of the theories and approaches that have guided development thinking from colonial to postcolonial times.To provide a conceptual and theoretical basis for the examination of development policies and practices in specific development programs and projects. To examine new postcolonial development discourses which challenge/provide alternatives to dominant approaches.
Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information.
Unit References:	Arce, A. and Longn N. (eds). (2000), Anthropology, development and modernities. London, Routledge. Escobar, E. (1995), Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the third world. Princeton, Princeton University Press. Gardner, K. and Lewis,D. (1996), Anthropology, development and the post-modern challenge. London, Pluto Press. Held, D. McGrew, A. Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J. (1999), Global transformations: Politics, economic and culture. Stanford, Stanford University Press. McMichael, P. (2000). Development and social change: a global perspective. Thousand Oaks, California, Pine Forge Press. Newell, P. (2001), Environmental NGOs, TNCs, and the question of governance'. In D Stevis and V J Assetto (eds): The international political economy of the environment. Boulder, London, Lynne Rienner Publishers. Scott, J. (1998), Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven, Yale University Press. Scudder, T (1999), 'The emerging global crisisand development Anthropology: can we have an impact?' Human Organization, vol 58, no. 4: 351-364
Unit Texts:	No prescribed texts.
Unit Assessment Breakdown:	Continuous assessment of one major project: Draft 20%, Final 60%, Participation 20%. This is by grade/mark assessment.
Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External 2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y