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Graduate Course
SoSe 15: Approaches to the Global History of Development in the Twentieth Century
Joseph Prestel
Comments
From the United Nations Development Programme to media portrayals of "underdeveloped" countries, development appears today in a number of contexts as a key concept. This seminar offers an inquiry into the global rise to prominence of the development concept since the 1930s. A first set of readings will familiarize students with the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of development in economics and the social sciences as well as prominent critiques of this concept. During the second half of the semester, we will discuss case studies that examine how the concept of development was negotiated and adapted in different regions of the world during the twentieth century. Roughly focusing on the period between the 1930s and the end of the Cold War, the seminar will include case studies from the United States, Columbia, Egypt, Kenya and the Soviet Union. close
Suggested reading
Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995); Frederick Cooper, "Writing the History of Development," Journal of Modern European History 8 (2010): 5-23; Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (University of California Press, 2002); Michael E. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011). close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2015-04-13 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-04-20 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-04-27 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-05-18 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-06-01 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-06-08 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-06-15 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-06-22 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-06-29 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-07-06 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-07-13 10:00 - 12:00