Postgraduate Course: Development and Justice (PGGE11295)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The broad objective of this course is not about how to do development but rather what it means to do development, as it helps appreciate the intersection between development and environmental change, and its relationship with questions of social, economic, and environmental justice. |
| Course description |
This course aims to introduce students to the field of development by offering an overview its theoretical underpinnings, historical linkages, its inherently contested and ideological nature and how it pans out in contemporary practice. We start by appreciating the ways in which different ideologies have shaped understandings of development theories to glean the deeply political nature of various theoretical foundations underpinning development. It is intended to offer a working knowledge of how evelopment has been shaped, where it is going, and why it remains complex and contradictory, and hence its practices contingent. The course examines different SDG themes from the lens of social/economic and ecological justice.
This is the broad outline of the topics covered in this course
Understanding development
Colonialism, capitalism, and modernity
Structuralism, socialism, neo-liberalism and post-development thinking
Poverty, inequality and justice
Global food (in)security, the global South, and food (in)justice
Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarianism
Globalisation of production, development, and gender justice
Alternative development thinking and practice: Radical ecological democracy
(Guest Lecture, Ashish Kothari)
Geographies of development, Indigenous peoples, everyday injustices, and resistance
D&J is structured to appreciate the academic endeavours around development theories and practices. A complimentary and more applied module; Professional Skills in Environment and Development is available in Semester 2 (Course Code PGGE11267).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 35 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% coursework
Assessment details
Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Assignment 1: Group Project and Presentation (40%)
Assignment 2: Individual essay (60%)
Assessment deadlines
Assignment 1: Group Project and Presentation, Monday, week 7, 12:00 noon submit via Learn.
Assignment 2: Individual essay, Friday week 11, 12:00 noon, submit via Turnitin.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Acquire a critical appreciation of different modes of development thinking and practice
- Understand the relationship between theory and practice, both in a 'development' context and in the formulation and conduct of academic research
- Learn to critique and comment on scholarship on development and its contemporary practices, through debate, dialogue, group work, as well as individual essays. Understand the implications of development on environment and the centrality of people in development thinking
- Appreciate why we need to think about development and environment questions from the lens of justice and fairness
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Reading List
Suggested Reading(s):
Escobar, Arturo (1995) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.
Ferguson, J. (1994). Anti-politics machine: Development, depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. University of Minnesota Press.
Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F. and Acosta, A., 2019. Pluriverse. A Post-Development Dictionary. New Dehli: Tulika Books.
Murray-Li, Tania (2014). Land¿s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier. Duke University Press: Durham & London
Quijano, A., 2007. Coloniality and modernity/rationality. Cultural studies, 21(2-3), pp.168-178
Rai, Shirin (2008). The Gender Politics of Development. London: Zed Books
Rodney, Walter, 2018 (1972). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso Trade.
Sen, A. (2000). Development as freedom. Development in Practice-Oxford-, 10(2), 258-258.
Willis, Katie (2005). Theories and Practices of Development. London and New York: Routledge
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Development theories,debates,practices,international challenges |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Regina Hansda
Tel:
Email: Regina.Hansda@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Taylor
Tel:
Email: Lynn.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
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