13180b
Seminar
WiSe 16/17: Global History of Development in the Twentieth Century
Joseph Prestel
Kommentar
From the United Nations Development Programme to media portrayals of “underdeveloped” countries, development appears today as a global key concept. This seminar offers an inquiry into the rise to prominence of the development concept around the world since the 1930s. A first set of readings will familiarize students with the theoretical foundations of the development concept in economics and the social sciences as well as prominent critiques of this concept. Building on these theoretical foundations, we will look at the importance of development in the context of colonialism and the Cold War. Several local case studies make up the final set of readings, examining how the concept of development was negotiated and adapted in different world regions during the twentieth century. Roughly focusing on the period between the 1930s and the late 1970s, the seminar will include case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Schließen
Literaturhinweise
Daniel Immerwahr, Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015); Amanda Kay McVety, Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012); Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Do, 20.10.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 27.10.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 03.11.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 10.11.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 17.11.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 24.11.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 01.12.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 08.12.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 15.12.2016 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 05.01.2017 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 12.01.2017 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 19.01.2017 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 26.01.2017 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 02.02.2017 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 09.02.2017 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 16.02.2017 14:00 - 16:00