Module course for POL7063_01_S1_202627 offered at LOC: by Politics and International Studies (ORG:POLS)
Convenor name: Joshua Rigg
Convenor email: jr4@soas.ac.uk
Office room: P297
Office hours: Thursday 9-12
Appointment booking link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m_iOlmoWF3CtsrKKDtPsCekTG-qkFX-U8IcAXBV4Jyw/edit?usp=sharing
Intended learning outcomes:
The module asks:
- What local characteristics did development take on in different regional contexts?
- How can we distinguish between development and other terms such as modernization, progress and growth?
- What is the relationship between development and the history of capitalism?
- Has development failed or ended? And if so, why?
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the module students will be able to:
- Critically assess and apply the analytical tools of political economy to the study of Global South politics.
- Identify different developmental discourses and practices and their relation to material political economic contexts.
- Analyse how peoples, ideas, institutions and geographies shape the making of Global South economies.
- Evaluate the density and global reach of economic networks through which power dynamics are produced.
- Assess different theories of development and discuss their merits and blindspots.
- Draw on examples of development projects from across the Global South, critically read their economic, social and political aims, and assess their results.
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