Development Studies A
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 2SK021
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Development, Democracy and Governance
Development, Democracy and Governance
- Sen, Amartya, Development as freedom., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001Compulsory
- Easterly, William Russell, The white man's burden: why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006Compulsory
- Cupples, Julie, Latin American development, London, Routledge, 2013Compulsory
Articles will be added
International Environment and Sustainable Development
- Baker, J. Mark, The kuhls of Kangra: community-managed irrigation in the Western Himalaya, 1. ed., Seattle, Wash. [u.a.], Univ. of Washington Press, 2005Compulsory
- Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990Compulsory
- Speth, James Gustave; Haas, Peter M., Global environmental governance, Washington, Island Press, cop. 2006Compulsory
Articles will be added
(En)Gendering International Development
- Mohanty, Chandra, Under Western Eyes Re-Visited: Feminist Solidarity through Anti-Capitalist Struggles, Part of: Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity, Durham, Duke Univ. Press, 2003Compulsory
- McClintock, Anne, Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest, London, Routledge, 1995Compulsory (pp 1–15)
- Peet, Richard, Feminist Theories of Development, Part of: Theories of development: contentions, arguments, alternatives, 2. ed., New York, Guildford Press, cop. 2009Compulsory (Chp 6 (pp.163–195))
- Feminist visions of development: gender, analysis and policy, New York, Routledge, 1998Compulsory (pp. 217–239)
- Kaldor, Mary, New & old wars: [organized violence in a global era], 2. ed., Cambridge, Polity Press, 2006Compulsory (pp. 72–87)
- Stoler, Ann Laura, Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule, Berkeley, University of California Press, c2002Compulsory
- Kabbani, Rana, Imperial Fictions: Europe Myth's of the Orient, Indiana University Press: Bloomington (pp. 1-13 & 67-85), 2009Compulsory (pp.1–13 &
67–85) - Waylen, Georgina, The Oxford handbook of gender and politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, c2013Compulsory (Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (2013), Gender, Nations and Nationalism (pp-163–195))
- Papart, Jane; Connelly, Patricia; Barriteau, V. Eudine, Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development, IDRC, 2000Compulsory (Chp.2, 3, 4)
- Bauman, Zygmunt, Wasted lives: modernity and its outcasts, Cambridge, Polity, 2004Compulsory ((Chp2), p.34–63)
- Butler, Judith, Frames of war: when is life grievable?, London, Verso, 2009Compulsory (pp.101–137)
- Moser, Caroline O. N.; Clark, Fiona C., Victims, perpetrators or actors?: gender, armed conflict and political violence, London, Zed, cop. 2001Compulsory (Turshen, Meredith. (2001). &
quot;The Political Economy of Rape: An Analysis of Systematic Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women during armed Conflict in Africa.& quot; (pp. 55–68)) - Bloom, Harold, Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings, Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publishers, 1998Compulsory
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Development and Armed Conflict
- Anderson, Mary B., Do no harm: how aid can support peace - or war, Boulder, Colo., Lynne Rienner, 1999Compulsory
- Collier, Paul, The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it, New York, Oxford University Press, cop. 2007Compulsory
- Collier, Paul., Wars, guns, and votes: democracy in dangerous places, 1. ed., New York, Harper, 2009Compulsory
- Diamond, Jared, Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies, New York, Norton, cop. 1997Compulsory
- How to conduct a conflict analysis: conflict-sensitive development co-operation, Stockholm, Department for Cooperation with NGOs, Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict Management, Sida, 2004Compulsory (Available from Studentportalen)
- Nisbett, Richard E.; Cohen, Dov., Culture of honor: the psychology of violence in the South, Johanneshov, MTM, 2013Compulsory (Available from Studentportalen. Pages xv-11 and 86–88)
- Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World, 2008Compulsory
Articles will be added
* Compulsory
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- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2011, version 2
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- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010
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- Syllabus valid from Spring 2009
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- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2007