Course Description:

This course provides a survey of issues relating to national, community, and human development in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). We will focus on understanding the complex role of individuals, families, communities, and the state in determining social and economic outcomes within the LDC context. In addition to providing a general understanding of the levels of analysis relevant to the Sociology of Development, the material will at times focus on specific issues such as inequality, risk, poverty, migration, gender, famine and the environment. We close the course by looking beyond the technical and theoretical aspects of development to address the meaning and importance of development as a goal in itself, and the role of identity and agency in the study of development.

Much of the knowledge you gain in this course will ideally hold substantial relevance to our experiences as residents of a More Developed Society. First, this society, like all MDCs, was once not so developed. Second, trade, communication, wars, travel and other forms of interaction with LDCs shape every aspect of the way we live our lives, and how we can expect to live our lives in the future. Finally, much of the material of the role of governance, communities, families, markets, and institutions in generating citizens’ security, justice, and well-being grows increasingly relevant in MDCs, especially the US, as the size of government social safety nets grows smaller.

Although development is regarded as a major sub-field of sociology in Europe and many LDCs, it is not recognized as one of the American Sociological Association’s 43 official sections or sub-fields. Perhaps five universities in the US offer an undergraduate course titled “Sociology of Development”. Certain aspects of what you will learn in this course can be covered under family sociology, urban sociology, community sociology, economic sociology, political economy, sociology of population, sociology of migration, social conflict, etc. In contrast, development is a required course and a sub-field in economics, geography and anthropology departments. As a result, many aspects of this course are strongly interwoven with themes from development economics (families, households, governance); anthropology (world systems, gender, post-development critique); and geography / planning (community, globalization). Most of the “celebrity” academics you read in the class will be economists. The few sections of the syllabus which offer perspectives unique to the sociological method or mindset are scattered randomly across the syllabus (world systems, family demography, modernization) and do not suggest any unified sociological approach to development issues. So bear in mind as you go through this course that the content is incredibly interdisciplinary, but one goal of the class will be to consider what the sociology of development would look like if it existed, and how sociological methods and frameworks could contribute to the study of development if they were applied more systematically.

My personal background is in social demography, international development, migration and the family. Most of my research has focused on rural-urban migration, intergenerational support relationships and social networks in Bangladesh, where I spent two years conducting fieldwork. You may begin to notice a number of recurring themes running through the course: 1) Asia, particularly Bangladesh, India and Japan; 2) Community and Social Networks; 3) identity and the different levels at which we define our identity.

Course Structure:

The class meets MWF, 2-250pm in Humanities 125. Class periods will be devoted to a combination of lectures, group discussions, and films. With such a short class time, you can expect that we will move fairly “efficiently”. If you have any problems or concerns about the pace, please let me know in person. If you have specific physical, psychiatric, or learning disabilities and require accommodations, please let me know early in the semester so that your learning needs may be appropriately met.

Lectures: Most of these concepts I will address in lectures are straightforward, and will often look a lot like the headlines in your daily newspaper. A more important goal of the lectures is to help you appreciate the relationships between different levels of analysis in determining development outcomes, and the relevance of specific levels and frameworks to the focus topics which emerge throughout the course. Nothing I lecture about is a well-kept secret, so Power Point slides of my lectures will be available on the course home page shortly after a lecture is completed. I will also provide a summary of the lecture in advance, either on-line or as a handout before class.

Discussions: As I suggest above, the goal of discussion will be to address the readings, and to integrate between levels of analysis, and between focus topics and more general issues. The nature of our group discussions will depend to some extent on the ultimate size of the course, the enthusiasm of the group, and of course the acoustics of our “smart” classroom. We may end up splitting into discussion groups, but hopefully we will all interact as one big happy group. As the old Nigerian Proverb (not Hillary Clinton) states: “It takes a village to raise a child”.

Films: Short documentary films will be strewn throughout the length of the course. I will also be arranging to show one or two of my favorite development-related films on evenings during the semester, for extra credit.

Course Outline:

I. What is development and why are we studying it? (August 25 – August 29)

II. Individuals, Families, and Households (September 3 – September 26)

III. Communities and Social Networks (September 29 – October 15)

IV. Nations and Regions (October 20 – November 7)

V. World Systems and Globalization (November 10-21)

VI. Post-Development Society, Identity, New Ideas (November 24 - December 8)

Course Materials:

The primary written sources will be an assortment of readings listed here on the syllabus. I trust this will make the course a more interesting experience than if we were using a boring textbook, but it will also make things more challenging. You may not need to keep on top of the readings to pass or even to keep up, but you will need to read them if you expect to get much out of the course. The readings will offer a diverse set of perspectives, some of which are bound to offend you, but perhaps not your neighbor. Please persevere, please express any doubts you have about the paper or the choice of paper in the open discussion period, and please be respectful to yourselves, your classmates, and your professor. In total, the reading load should average 30 pages per class period.

Readings: I will typically list one or more readings alongside each class period. Only one or two short articles will be required, but the others should also be available should you wish to read further.

My goal is not to make you spend money or run all over town looking for reading materials. Since CU has already paid for the rights to most of these materials, it is absurd to make you pay for the campus copy center to acquire the rights and produce a bulkpack. A majority of the papers for the course are available on JStor, Ingenta, or another of the subscription journal archives accessible through the Univ. of Colorado subnet. The remaining papers will be available on Norlin’s electronic reserves, and should be up on the electronic syllabus some time during the first week. You will need to use the on-line version of the syllabus to access most of these articles. If you cannot access any of these services through the computer in your home or residence hall, you should be able to do so at one of the computers in Norlin or any campus computer lab. If you have further problems, let me know and I will help you access the papers. Please note: the syllabus will change over the course of the semester. I will always notify you of these changes in person as well as entering them in the on-line syllabus, but you are responsible for making sure you have read the right material.

Book: I think it’s quite useful to place the ideas of a course in the framework of a novel or some other work of fiction. Being dissatisfied with most of the “Third World” fiction I considered, I have instead assigned a work of “pop journalism” which is not actually about a developing country. Underground is written by (my favorite) novelist Haruki Murakami. His fictional work typical addresses dislocation and alienation in settings that often straddle the line between fantasy and a very weird reality. In Underground, Murakami addresses the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway committed by members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious front. Murakami argues that the act itself, the national response to the attacks, and the general malaise associated with the national economy and psyche represent a form of mass alienation and dissatisfaction with some of the unfulfilled promises of rapid economic development, secularization and capitalism. Tokyo itself is a very real setting which nonetheless straddles the line between fantasy and reality. Murakami used the topic and this book as a point for his own reentry into a Japanese society which revered him but had also grown alien to him after years of teaching in the US and UK. The book may seem unconnected to the topics we address in the first few weeks of class, but I hope that it will complement the later readings and lectures and provoke enlightening discussions in the frantic moments between Thanksgiving and the end of the Fall semester.

Murakami, Haruki. 2001. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (translated by Alfred Birnbaum, Philip Gabriel). Vintage International Publishing.

The book is on order at Word is Out Books at 2015 10^th Street, just a couple doors north of Pearl Street. Their phone number is (303) 449-1415. It should be available around September 5^th, and they will provide flyers providing you with all the specifics. I will mention this again later on in the class, but you should be aiming to finish the novel around the middle of November.

Films: Documentary films are all well and good, but fictional representations are in my opinion far more powerful. Unfortunately, most feature length movies last 1.5-2 hours, and films from Bollywood, the Indian movie industry, last upwards of 3 hours. I will arrange times later in the semester to watch movies. I will provide refreshments of some sort. I will offer extra credit. I hope it will be enjoyable. Read more below.

Film #1 (September 30, 6:30pm): Do Bigha Zamin. 1953. Directed by Bimal Roy, Starring Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar; Music (!!) by Salil Choudhury, Lyrics by Shailendra.

Film #2 (November 10, 6:30pm): Gangs of New York. 2002. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (who?), Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz. 166 minutes.

Grading and Expectations:

Some of the content of this course may be more challenging or more advanced than in many 2000-level courses, yet it should not be all that difficult to receive a good grade and the overall workload should be manageable. Since the class size is quite small, we will have ample time to go over the material in great detail. My main goal in the class is to give you an opportunity to learn about new issues, settings and viewpoints. As long as you are serious about those goals, you will receive a good grade. I hope that you will go further in pursuing these topics in greater depth in future courses, in thesis projects or in how you read the papers, lead your life, etc. I provide you with plenty of additional readings if you wish to expand on what we learn here.

The CU standard grading scale is as follows:

A	94-100	B-	80-83.9	D+	67-69.9
A-	90-93.9	C+	77-79.9	D	64-66.9
B+	87-89.9	C	74-76.9	D-	60-63.9
B	84-86.9	C-	70-73.9	F	<=59.9

You will be graded according to the following criteria:

Midterm (30%): This test will occur on October 17. It will consist of multiple choice, short open-response, and one longer open-response question. The exam must be taken on October 17 at the scheduled time, and in the classroom, 125 Humanities unless other acceptable arrangements have been prepared well in advance. The exam will cover the material in the readings and lectures up to the and including the lectures on Oct 15.

Final (40%): The final will be slightly longer than the mid-term but will follow the same type format and regulations. The final will cover material subsequent to the lecture on October 17 through the end of the course, as well as structuring material from the first four lectures (levels, terms, issues, identity). I mentioned this in class on September 3, but contact me if you have questions about this.

Absolutely no make-ups will be provided for unexcused absences from either of the exams. Anyone not taking the final exam will fail the course.

Essays (20%): You will be assigned two essays in which you will be asked to respond to a question given out in class 2-3 weeks before they are due. The first essay will relate to the material in sections I, II, and III of the course. The second essay will ask you to relate certain aspects of the Murakami book to the accumulated material of the course. Essays should be at least five but no more than seven pages (double-spaced, size 11 or 12 font) in length. Make sure you have a back-up copy of your essay, either on diskette or paper. You will be graded on the quality of your writing as well as the substance.

Participation (10%): We all have our different ways of distinguishing ourselves in class. Some of them will help you receive full credit for participation, some will not (ringing cell phones, for example). I do not expect you to attend 100% of the lectures, and you will not be marked down for a missing a class here and there. I also do not expect you to speak in discussion every single class on every point. Use your judgment. If you suspect that you have missed a lot of class time and are concerned about losing points, speak to me and I will let you know my thoughts. If you have difficulty speaking aloud in discussion for any reason whatsoever, come talk to me and we can arrange other ways for you to express your opinions and knowledge.

Extra Credit (up to 5%): As mentioned above, there will be two (perhaps three) films shown somewhere on campus on a weekday evening to be announced shortly after the semester begins. Attend the film and write a short (1.5-3 pages) essay relating the film to the relevant lectures and readings, and you will receive up to 2.5% extra credit per film. The extra credit maxes out at 5%. In other words, perfect essays about two films get you 5%, and thus attendance at the third film will be strictly for your own entertainment pleasure, so please don’t write me another essay either for my entertainment or for additional credit. Say you only receive 4% credit for the first two films, then you could still work your way up to 5% at the third film.

Honor code

Students are expected to adhere to the University of Colorado’s Honor Code. Please familiarize yourself with the provisions of the Honor Code. Note that ignorance regarding its provisions does not excuse a violation. If you have any questions about the Honor Code, please see me.

Course Schedule and Readings

Note: * indicates a reading that is required preparation for that day’s class

August 25: What are we doing here? Levels of Analysis.

August 27: Basic Development Issues and Challenges. Defining some Terms.

*Jaffee, David. 1998. Levels of Socio-economic Development Theory. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing. Chapter 1, “Introduction: The Meaning of Development and Levels of Theory", pp. 1-16. (Off-Line Copy)

*Sen, Amartya. 1998. “Amartya Sen – Nobel Prize Banquet Speech”. From Les Prix Nobel.

August 29: Focus on Poverty

*World Bank. 2002. World Development Report, 2000/2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press. “Selected World Development Indicators”, pp. 270-287 (skim). “Chapter 1: The Nature and Evolution of Poverty”, pp. 15-29. “Chapter 2: Causes of Poverty and a Framework for Action”, pp. 31-41.

September 1: Labor Day Holiday

September 3: Placing the individual in context. Identity and Development.

Castells, Manuel. 1999. The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. “Prologue: The Net and The Self”, pp. 1-27. (Note: This will be assigned as required reading later on. Read ahead if you are interested). (Off-Line Copy)

September 5: Individual-level theories of development. Modernization.

*Jaffee, David. 1998. Levels of Socio-economic Development Theory. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing. Chapter 2, “Individual-Level Theories of Socio-Economic Development", pp. 17-44. (Off-Line Copy)

September 8: Families, Households and The Life-Course. Family terminology. Families and Markets. Families and Resources.

*Thornton, Arland and Thomas Fricke, “Social Change and the Family: Comparative Perspectives from the West, China and South Asia”. Sociological Forum, 1987, 2:746-72. (Off-Line Copy)

Dharmalingam, A. 1994. “Old Age Support: Expectations and Experiences in a South Indian Village.” Population Studies, 48, pp. 5-19. (Off-Line Copy)

September 10: The Family is Dead… Long Live the Family!!

*Mason, Karen Oppenheim. 1992. “Family Change and Support of the Elderly in Asia: What Do We Know?”. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 7(3), pp. 13-32.

September 12: Focus on Risk and Vulnerability

*World Bank. 2002. World Development Report, 2000/2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press. “Chapter 8: Helping Poor People Manage Risk”, pp. 135-159.

*Ellis, Frank. 2000. Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. “Chapter 11: Livelihoods, Diversification and Policies”, pp. 231-241. (Off-Line Copy)

Morduch, Jonathan. 1999. “Between the State and the Market: Can Informal Insurance Patch the Safety Net?”. The World Bank Research Observer, 14(2): 187-207.

September 15: Focus on Health and the Burden of Disease

*Bloom, David and David Canning. May 1999. “The Health and Wealth of Nations”. In World Health Opportunity: Developing Health, Reducing Poverty. London: World Health Organization, 7–13.

*Sen, Amartya. 1999. “Health in Development”. Keynote Address to the 52^nd World Health Assembly, World Health Organization. Geneva.

Sachs, Jeffrey and Amar A. Hamoudi. 1999. "Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence. " Working Paper No. 30, December 1999.

Subramanian, S. V., Paolo Belli, and Ichiro Kawachi. 2002. “The Macroeconomic Determinants of Health”. Annual Review of Public Health, 23, pp. 287-302. (Off-Line Copy)

September 17: Focus on Population and Demographic Change

*Sen, Amartya. 2003. “Population: Delusion and Reality”. Asian Affairs On-Line.

*Becker, Gary. The Economic Way of Looking at Life. Nobel Lecture, December 9, 1992. Nobel Lectures 1991-1995. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 38-58. Focus on pp. 46-52.

September 19: Gender and Development

*White, Sarah. 1992. Arguing with the crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh. London: Zed Books Ltd. “Chapter 1:Penelope’s Web and Chapter 2: Targetting Women ”, pp. 1-26. (Off-Line Copy)

September 22: Gender, Feminism, Post-Feminism

*Enloe, Cynthia. 1990. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. "Chapter 6: Carmen Miranda on My Mind: International Politics of the Banana". Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 124-150. (Off-Line Copy)

*Trask , Haunani-Kay. 1999. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i. "Chapter 10: Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture" . Common Courage Press. (Off-Line Copy)

September 24: Women’s empowerment

*McIntosh, Alison C. and Jason Finkle. 1995. “The Cairo Conference on Population and Development: A New Paradigm?”. Population and Development Review, 21 (2), 223-260. (Off-Line Copy)

Film: Women and Work in South Asia

September 26: Development in Practice

Guest Lecture: Kyle Drullinger, fifth-year senior in Economics, talks about his experience working on public health projects in South Africa and traveling throughout Sub-Saharan Africa on The Benjamin Brown Student Sabbatical Award for International Study, a fellowship offered exclusively to CU-Boulder students. While there, he worked on a paper entitled “HIV and Migration: An Exploratory Look at the Causal Link Between HIV Infection and Migration in a Rural South African Setting” with researchers at a rural field site of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Septmeber 29: The meaning, value and costs of Social Capital, Social Networks, Exchange and Exclusion

*Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology”. Annual Review of Sociology, 24, pp. 1-24.

Woolcock, Michael. 1998. "Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework," Theory and Society, 27:2, pp. 151-208. (Off-Line Copy)

September 30: Extra Credit Movie Night!!!

6:30pm, 252 Hellems Hall

Film: Do Bigha Zamin. 1953. Directed by Bimal Roy, Starring Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar; Music (!!) by Salil Choudhury, Lyrics by Shailendra.

October 1: Communities in conflict and competition: Patronage, Class Conflict, communal comflict

*White, Sarah. 1992. Arguing with the crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh. London: Zed Books Ltd. “Chapter 3: The Village of Kumirpur”, pp. 27-45. (Off-Line Copy)

*Varshney, Ashutosh. 2002. “Understanding Gujarat Violence”. Items and Issues: Social Science Research Council, 4(1): pp. 1-5.

October 3: Fall Break

October 6: Communities in cooperation. Communities as governments.

October 8: Focus on Migration

*Massey, Douglas S. 1988. “Economic Development and International Migration in Comparative Perspective”. Population and Development Review 14(3): pp. 383-413. (Off-Line Copy)

Stark, Oded. 1982. “Research on Rural-to-Urban Migration in LDCs: The Confusion Frontier and Why We Should Pause to Rethink Afresh”. World Development 10(1):63-70. (Off-Line Copy)

Portes, Alejandro and Julia Sensenbrenner. 1993. “Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action”. American Journal of Sociology, 98(6), pp. 1320-1350. (No Electronic Copy Yet)

October 10: Community Organizations. Community Empowerment

*Check out Grameen Bank's website, including their credit delivery system and the 16 decisions (with cool illustrations) pledged by Grameen Bank members.

*Sultan, Sonya M. 2003. “Rebuilding Afghanistan from Within”. Changemakers, Online journal of Ashoka Foundation.

Morduch, Jonathan. 1999. “The Microfinance Schism”. World Development, 28(4), pp. 617-629. (Off-Line Copy)

October 13: Video

"Sixteen Decisions," VHS 4542

October 15: Focus on Environmental Issues

*Crow, Ben and Farhana Sultana. 2002. “Gender, Class, and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta”. Society and Natural Resources, 15, pp. 709-724.

October 17: Mid-Term

October 20: Focus on Inequality

Students receive Essay #1 Assignment

*Nancy Birdsall. Summer 1998. “Life is Unfair: Inequality in the World” Foreign Policy, 111, pp. 76-93.

October 22: Geography, Regional Politics and Development

*Richardson, John M. and Shinjinee Sen. 1996. "Development and Ethnic Conflict, A Policy Oriented Analysis"

October 24: Urban-Rural and Regional Differences and Inequality, Urbanization

*Perlman, Janice E. 1976. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. “Chapter 8: Marginality and Urban Poverty (pp. 242-262)”; foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (pp. xi-xiii). Shelf

*World Bank. 2003. World Development Report, 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press. “Chapter 6: Getting the Best from Cities”, pp. 107-132.

Lipton, Michael. 1998. “Urban Bias and Inequality”. In Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality (eds. Mitchell A. Seligson and John T. Passé-Smith), Chapter 30, pp. 389-394. (Off-Line Copy)

Roberts, B.R. 1994. "Urbanization, Development, and the Household". In Comparative National Development : Society and Economy in the New Global Order (eds. A. Douglas Kincaid and Alejandro Portes), pp. 199-236. (Off-Line Copy)

October 27: Democracy, Governance, Civil Society, Corruption and the Rule of Law

*De Soto, Hernando. 1995. “The Missing Ingredient: An Address by Hernando de Soto, President Instituto Libertad y Democracia, Lima, Peru to the CIDA Forum on Knowledge and Information”.

*Zakaria, Fareed. 1997. “The Rise of Illiberal Democracy”. Foreign Affairs. (Off-Line Copy)

*Reich, Michael R. 2002. “Reshaping the State from Above, from Within, from Below: Implications for Public Health”. Social Science and Medicine, 54(11), pp. 1669-1675. (Off-Line Copy)

October 29: Focus on Informal Economies

*Portes, Alejandro, Manuel Castells and Lauren A. Benton. 1989. The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. “Conclusion: The Policy Implications of Informality”, pp. 298-311. (Off-Line Copy)

Alejandro Portes, “When More Can Be Less: Labor Standards, Development, and the Informal Economy,” and Vanessa Cartaya, “Informality and Poverty: Causal

October 31: Culture

*Said, Edward. 1978. Orientalism, “Introduction”. New York: Vintage Books, pp. 1-28.

*United Nations Development Program. 2002. Arab Human Development Report 2002. “Overview: A Future for All”. New York: United Nations Publications.

Bellah, Robert N. 1958. Religious Aspects of Modernization in Turkey and Japan. American Journal of Sociology, 64(1): 1-5. (Off-Line Copy)

November 3: Paths to National Development

*“The Poor and the Rich". The Economist May 25, 1996, pp. 23-25. (Off-Line Copy)

Sachs, Jeffrey. 2003. "Institutions Matter, but not for Everything," IMF Finance and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, June 2003.

November 5: Paths to National Development

Video: The Asian Century

Paul Krugman, “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle,” Foreign Affairs 73:6 (1994), pp. 62-78. (Off-Line Copy)

November 7: Focus on Famines and Hunger

Bearak, Barry. July 13, 2003. “Why People Still Starve”. New York Times Magazine, Section 6, Page 33-45.

Gopalan, C. 2001. “Achieving Household Nutrition Security in Societies in Transition: An Overview”. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 10(1), pp. S4-S12. (Off-Line Copy)

November 10: Why is it useful to think about global systems and globalization?

Essay #1 Due Date

*Rodrik, Dani. 2002. “Globalization for Whom?”. Harvard Magazine, 104(6), pp. 29-34.

Extra Credit Movie Night #2

6:30pm, 201 Hellems

Gangs of New York. 2002. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (who?), Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz. 166 minutes.

November 12: History, Dependency, Underdevelopment, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism

*Amin, Samir. 1998. “Specters of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions”. Monthly Review. (Off-Line Copy)

Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, “Preface to the English Edition,” in Dependency and Development in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), pp. viixxv.

November 14: Globalization, its Discontents, and its Opportunities

*Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2001. “Notes and Dispatches, Addis Ababa: Thanks for Nothing”. The Atlantic Monthly, October 2001.

*Sen, Amartya. 2001. “Ten Theses on Globalization”. New Perspectives Quarterly, pp. 9-15.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). “Human Development in this Age of Globalization”. Chapter 1 in Human Development Report 1999 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 25-44.

November 17: Internationalization of Trade, Commodities, and Capital

Students receive Essay #2 Assignment

*Gereffi, Gary, Ronie Garcia-Johnson, and Erika Sasser. 2001. “The NGO-Industrial Complex”. Foreign Policy, 125 pp. 56-65. (Off-Line Copy)

*Sassen, Saskia. 2002. “Globalization or Denationalization”. Items and Issues: Social Science Research Council, 4(1): pp. 15-19.

*Sachs, Jeffrey. 2002. "Weapons of Mass Salvation," The Economist, October 26, 2002

Portes, Alejandro. 1997. “Neoliberalism and the Sociology of Development: Emerging Trends and Unanticipated Facts”. Population and Development Review, 23(2), pp. 229-259. (Off-Line Copy)

November 19: International Migration and Transnational Communities

*Bob, Clifford. 2002. "Merchants of Morality", Foreign Policy, 129, pp. 36-45. (Off-Line Copy)

*Portes, Alejandro. 1999. “Conclusion: Towards a New World - The Origins and Effects of Transnational Activities”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(2), pp. 463-77. (Not Off-Line Yet)

Evans, Peter. 2000. “Fighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks: Counter-Hegemonic Globalization”, Contemporary Sociology, 29, pp. 230-41. (Off-Line Copy)

November 21: Power, The Lords of Poverty, Foreign aid and dependency.

*Escobar, Arturo. 1997. “The Making and Unmaking of the Third World Through Development”, Chapter 8 in The Post Development Reader (eds. Majid Rahnema and Victoria Bawtree), Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited (Original Publisher, London: Zed Books), pp. 85-93. (Off-Line Copy)

*Frank, Leonard. 1997. “The Development Game”, Chapter 26 in The Post Development Reader (eds. Majid Rahnema and Victoria Bawtree), Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited (Original Publisher, London: Zed Books), pp. 263-273. (Off-Line Copy)

November 24: Does Income Equal Happiness?

Discussion of Murakami’s Japan and the book Underground.

November 26: Questioning Development?

Film: Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

November 28: Thanksgiving Break

December 1: What is Development?

Jared Diamond, Gun, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997). Introduction.

December 3: Post-Development Thinking

*Rahnema, Majid. 1997. “Towards Post-Development: Searching for Signposts, a New Language and New Paradigms”, Afterword in The Post Development Reader (eds. Majid Rahnema and Victoria Bawtree), Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited (Original Publisher, London: Zed Books), pp. 377-403. (Off-Line Copy)

Leys, Colin. 1996. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. London: James Currey. “Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of Development Theory”, pp. 3-41. (Off-Line Copy)

December 5: Post-Development Society

*Castells, Manuel. 1999. The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. “Prologue: The Net and The Self”, pp. 1-27. (Note: This will be assigned as required reading later on. Read ahead if you are interested). (Off-Line Copy)

December 8: Identity and Development

Murakami Essay Due Date

Kuhn, Randall. 2003. “Identities in Motion: Social Exchange Networks and Rural-Urban Migration in Bangladesh”. Contributions to Indian Sociology 37(1&2), pp. 311-337.

Sen, Amartya. June 26, 1997. “Tagore and His India”. Nobel e-Museum, originally from New York Review of Books, 44(11).