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
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