DSOC 3200 - Rethinking Global Development: New Frameworks for Understanding Poverty, Inequality & Growth in 21C

(CA) (SBA)

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: DSOC 2050 or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. Co-meets with DSOC 5200.

W. Wolford.

This class investigates the theoretical and historical genealogies of post-war Development practice as well as new ideas for re-thinking the project. We begin by analyzing the theoretical components of the world economic system and the dominant approaches to Development. The second half of the class focuses on alternative conceptions and contemporary ecologies of economic change.