- Docente: Mario Zamponi
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/13
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
International Co-Operation, Development and Human Rights (cod. 8509)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (cod. 8046)
Course contents
Important notice
In order to enhance students' participation and interaction, students attending classes must read preliminarily the following books:
R. Peet, E. Hartwick, Theories of development, The Guilford, 2009, New York; London
V. Desai, R. B. Potter, The companion to development studies, Hodder Education, London, 2008
Moreover students are requested to attend classes regularly and to be present during the first weeks when all information about the programme and the materials concerning the seminar activities will be provided.
The course will be organized as follows:
FIRST WEEK
Introductory remarks to the course. Introduction to group works and discussion seminars. All students who are attending classes, divided into groups, are requested either to present and discuss the papers recommended for the seminars' weeks or to write an essay analyzing the policy papers provided at the beginning of the course, for the final workhops. Presentation of websites and other useful resources. Analysis of the concept of political development and of development within the field of development studies.
Recommendend reading:
A. Sumner, M. Tribe, International Development Studies. Theories and Methods in Research and Practice, Sage, London, 2008
SECOND AND THIRD WEEK
Development in history and in international relations: from colonial empires to third world to developing countries; modernisation and development; from Washington to post Washington consensus.
Recommended reading.
R. Potter et al., Geographies of development: an introduction to development studies, Pearson Prentice Hall, Harlow, 2008
FOURTH WEEK
Analysis of the notion of development in social sciences in an historical and political perspective: idioms, concepts, debate. Human rights and development. Democratic transitions and the issues of governance, citizenship, ethnicity.
Reading list:
F. J. Schuurman, Paradigms lost, paradigms regained? Development studies in the twenty-first century, in Third World Quarterly, 21, 1, 2000
J. Nederveen Pieterse, After post development, Third World Quarterly, 21, 2, 2000
A. Ziai, The ambivalence of post-development: between reactionary populism and radical democracy, Third World Quarterly, 25, 6, 2004
A. Cornwall, K. Brock, What do buzzword do for development policy? A critical look at participation, empowerment and poverty reduction, Third World Quarterly, 26, 7, 2005
A. Cornwall, C. Nyamu-Musembi, Putting the ‘rights-based approach' to development into perspective, in Third World Quarterly, 25, 8, 2004
P. Gready, Rights-based approaches to development: what is the value-added? In Development in Practice, 18, 6, 2008
G. Williams, Evaluating participatory development: tyranny, power and (re)politicisation, in Third World Quarterly, 25, 3, 2004
P. Vizard, S. Fukuda‐Parr, D. Elson, Introduction: The Capability Approach and Human Rights, in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12, 1, 2011
G. Ranis, F. Stewart, Success and Failure in Human Development, 1970–2007 in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 13, 2, 2012
W. van Ginneken, Social Protection, the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights in IDS Bulletin, 42, 6 2011
FIFTH WEEK
Ideas, assumptions and debate about notion and practices of aid effectiveness within the framework of international aid and cooperation will be discussed.
Reading list:
M. Owa, Revisiting the Paris Declaration Agenda – an inclusive, realistic orientation for aid effectiveness in Development in Practice, 21, 7, 2011
J. Gruber, Making development more ‘fit for purpose': how to support greater civil society participation, in Progress in Development Studies, 11, 1, 2011
G. Hyden, After the Paris Declaration: Taking on the Issue of Power, in Development Policy Review, 26, 3, 2008
K. De Koster, N. Holvoet, Bilateral Donors' Efforts to Assess and Manage UN Agencies' Effectiveness: Seeking a Balance between Paris Principles and Domestic Accountability, in Development Policy Review, 30, 4, 2012
SIXTH WEEK
Analysis of the processes of political and social development in the rural areas of developing countries: access to land, citizenship, land reform and policies of rural development in an historical perspective. The relation between agriculture, development and poverty reduction will be discussed in the context of international development.
Reommended reading:
H. Bernstein, Class dynamics of agrarian change, Kumarian Press; Sterling, VA, Halifax; Winnipeg Fernwood
SEVENTH AND EIGHTS WEEKS – seminar weeks
Analysis of programmes of land reform launched since the ‘90s in developing countries in a comparative way. Case studies from different countries of developing countries will be discussed. Moreover this section will analyze the phenomenon of “land grabbing”.
Reading list
On land reform and the rural question:
A. H. Akram-Lodhi, S. M. Borras, C. Kay (eds.), Land, poverty and livelihoods in an era of globalization: perspectives from developing and transition countries, Routledge, London e New York 2007, cap. 2, 3, 4, 5
C. Lund, Fragmented sovereignty: land reform and dispossession in Laos, in Journal of Peasant studies, 4, 1, 2011
S. Feldman, C. Geisler Land expropriation and displacement in Bangladesh, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 39, 3–4, 2012
J. Grajales, The rifle and the title: paramilitary violence, land grab and land control in Colombia, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 38, 4, 2011
Helmer Velásquez, Serie: Marcos legales de acceso a la tierra. Estudio Guatemala, International Land Coalition 2011
S. Borras Jr, La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform, in Journal of Agrarian Change, 8, 2-3, 2008
Peter Jacobs, Whither agrarian reform in South Africa? Review of African Political Economy, 39.131, 2012
S. Moyo, Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 38, 3, 2011
P. Peters, D. Kambewa, Whose security ? Deepening social con£ict over ‘customary ' land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi, in Journal of Modern African Studies, 45, 3, 2007
D. Rahmato, The peasant and the state. Studies on agrarian change in Ethiopia 1950s-2000s, Addis Ababa University Press, 2009, cap. 4.
On land grabbing:
P. B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik, Atakilte Beyene, Biofuels, land, grabbing and food security in Africa, cap. 6, 7, 8, London, Zed Books, 2011
T. Lavers, Land grab' as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 39, 1, 2012
R. Smalley, E. Corbera. Large-scale land deals from the inside out: findings from Kenya's Tana Delta, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 39, 3–4, 2012
D. Hall, Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 38, 4, 2011
N. Lee Peluso, Emergent forest and private land regimes in Java, Journal of Peasant Studies, 38, 4, 2011
T. Sikor, Tree plantations, politics of possession and the absence of land grabs in Vietnam, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 39, 3–4, 2012
M. Kenney-Lazar. Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos, Journal of Peasant Studies, 39, 3–4, 2012
S. M. Borras Jr., J. C. Franco, S. Gómez, C. Kay, M. Spoor, Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in Journal of Peasant Studies, 39, 3–4, 2012
NINTH WEEK (group works /seminars)
Group works about aid effectiveness. Students divided in groups will be asked to present during classes the documents provided to them at the beginning of the course
TENTH WEEK (groups work /seminars)
Group works. Students divided in groups will be asked to present during classes the documents by some international development actors providedat the beginning of the course
Programme for students attending classes
Students attending classes must study the following books
A. Sumner, M. Tribe, International Development Studies. Theories and Methods in Research and Practice, Sage, London, 2008
Robert Potter et al., Geographies of development: an introduction to development studies, Pearson Prentice Hall, Harlow 2008
Henry Bernstein, Class dynamics of agrarian change, Kumarian press; Sterling, VA, Halifax; Winnipeg Fernwood
And moreover: two essays for each of the weeks 4, 5, 6, and three essays for each of the weeks 7 and 8 (twelve in total).
Seminars activities and groups works will be assessed for the final examination
Programme for students not attending classes
A. Summer, M. Tribe, International Development Studies. Theories and Methods in Research and Practice, Sage, London, 2008
Robert Potter et al., Geographies of development: an introduction to development studies, Pearson Prentice Hall, Harlow 2008
Henry Bernstein, Class dynamics of agrarian change, Kumarian press; Sterling, VA, Halifax; Winnipeg Fernwood
D. Craig, D. Porter, Development Beyond Liberalism. Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy, Routledge, Abingdon 2006 (introduction and chapters of Part I)
S. Moyo, P. Yeros (eds), Reclaiming the Nation, Zed Books, London 2011 (cap. 1, 2, 5, 6)
Readings/Bibliography
Bibliographical references are indicated jointly with the syllabus.
Teaching methods
Lectures, analysis and discussion of papers and bibliographical references. Some of the lectures will be organized as seminars with discussion of some of the readings indicated in the programme. Students are requested to present and to discuss the readings they have choosenunder the teacher supervision. The discussion during classes will be evaluated for the final examination.
Assessment methods
The examination will be a oral discussion on the programme.
Teaching tools
Transparencies, maps, newspapers, documents and reports of international organisations
Office hours
See the website of Mario Zamponi