Development Studies A
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 2SK021
A revised version of the reading list is available.
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
Articles will be added
International Environment and Sustainable Development
- Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990Compulsory
- Matson, P. A.; Clark, William C.; Andersson, Krister., Pursuing sustainability: a guide to the science and practice, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2016Compulsory
Articles will be added
Gender and Economic Development
- Benería, Lourdes; Berik, Günseli; Floro, Maria, Gender, development and globalization: economics as if all people mattered, 2. ed., New York, Routledge, 2016Compulsory
Articles will be added
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.)
Articles will be added
* Compulsory
Syllabus
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2023
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2022
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2021
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2020
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2019
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2018
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2016
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2014
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2012
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2012
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2011, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2011, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2009
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2009
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2008
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2007