Development, Democracy and Governance

Development, Democracy and Governance

• Sen, Amartya, Development as freedom, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001Compulsory*
• Easterly, William, The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, New York, Penguin Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Cupples, Julie, Latin American development, London, Routledge, 2013Compulsory*

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International Environment and Sustainable Development

• 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*

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(En)Gendering International Development

Throughout the course, we will engage with chapters from the following classic texts. It is, however, not mandatory to buy these books:

• Kabbani, Rana, Imperial fictions: Europe's myths of the Orient ; [new preface], London [u.a.], Saqi, 2008Compulsory*
• McClintock, Anne, Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest, London, Routledge, 1995Compulsory*
• Waylen, Georgina, The Oxford handbook of gender and politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, c2013Compulsory*
• Peet, Richard, Feminist Theories of Development, Part of: Theories of development: contentions, arguments, alternatives, 2. ed., New York, Guildford Press, cop. 2009Compulsory*
• Bauman, Zygmunt, Wasted lives: modernity and its outcasts, Cambridge, Polity, 2004Compulsory*
• Kaldor, Mary, New & old wars: [organized violence in a global era], 2. ed., Cambridge, Polity Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Butler, Judith, Frames of war: when is life grievable?, London, Verso, 2009Compulsory*

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Development and Armed Conflict

• Abirafeh, Lina, Gender and international aid in Afghanistan: the politics and effects of intervention, Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co., 2009Compulsory*
• 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, Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1996Compulsory* (Pages xv-11, and 86–88. Available from Studentportalen.)

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* Compulsory