DSOC 2050 - International Development

(crosslisted)
(also SOC 2206) (SBA) (HA) (D)

Spring. 3 credits.

P. McMichael.

Examines new questions concerning development models in the post–Cold War era from a comparative and global perspective on North-South relations. While the focus is the “Third World,” the issues confronting it are often global, even when they concern the most basic issue of food security. Using films and various theoretical perspectives, the course examines Southern societies (economies, ecologies, class/gender relations) and the impact of global forces on Southern resources. Such forces include global food systems, new forms of export production, development agencies, multilateral institutions, local bureaucracies, transnational corporations, the debt crisis, and new technologies. Also examines the new global justice movements, such as environmentalism, feminism, and landless workers, peasant, and grassroots activism.