Academic Year 2019/2020
- Docente: Vando Borghi
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student: - will have basic knowledge about the sociological approaches to development issues, development intervention and social planning - he will be able to formulate action plans at a local level and assess issues relating to policies development and governance.
Course contents
The course aims at building the basic knowledges about two specific issues:
- sociological approaches to the problems of the development
- issues of social projecting and intervention
1st part : Which modernity?
Modernization and development: the problem of the transformation of the society in some of the most relevant sociological approaches and in the debate related to them. What does it mean modernity? And the dichotomy development/underdevelopment? Which is the genealogy of these concepts? What concepts and categories are more adequate for understanding of the social transformation? Who, and how, should participate to the transformative processes? What dimensions should be addressed for really improving the quality of life? How social justice's issues influence the processes of globalization?
2nd part: Projecting the development
Projecting, in the poor and in the rich countries: why do project and produce interventions? how arise the development projects? What kind of problems they raise? Which relationships exist between policy design and daily implementation of that projects? And among the different dimensions involved (territorial, social, economical, organizational, cultural, political, etc.)? Which actors are playing? What are the conditions of sustainability of that projecting?
3rd part: Specific topics
Seminars based on the presentations - by the students - of materials on specific issues of the contemporary debate on the development: different models of capitalism, migration processes, structural adjustments, poverty, urban development, role of cultural dimension, privatizations, movements for the 'globalization from below', the capability approach, etc.
Readings/Bibliography
1st part
Students attending the lectures:
- from G. Rist, Lo sviluppo: storia di una credenza occidentale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torini, 1997, the Chapter "L'invenzione dello sviluppo";
- Martinelli A., La modernizzazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010 [older editions are lacking some parts].
(It is warmly suggested the reading of: Voce "Modernità" (di D. Frisby) dalla Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali Treccani (disponibile presso la Bibl. del Dipartimento di Sociologia);
Students not attending the lectures :
- Voice "Modernità" (di D. Frisby) dalla Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali Treccani (disponibile presso la Bibl. del Dipartimento di Sociologia);
- from G. Rist, Lo sviluppo: storia di una credenza occidentale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1997, the Chapter "L'invenzione dello sviluppo";
- from W. Sachs, Dizionario dello sviluppo, Ega, Torino, 2004, voices: Partecipazione M. Rahnema; Risorse, V. Shiva; Sviluppo G. Esteva
- Martinelli A., La modernizzazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010 [Attention: older editions are lacking some parts].
Students attending and not attending the lectures, one text among the following ones:
- issues of international cooperation: L. Carrino (2016), Perle, pirati e sognatori. Dall'aiuto allo sviluppo a una nuova cooperazione internazionale, Franco Angeli, Milano;
- issue of local development: G. Carrosio (2019), I margini al centro, Donzelli, Roma
- issues of social legitimation to human intervention: L. Boltanski (2000), Lo spettacolo del dolore. Morale umanitaria, media e politica, Raffaello Cortina, Milano
and moreover, students not attending the lectures:
- Ugo Rossi, Filippo Celata, Ripensare le politiche di sviluppo locale in Italia: un approccio territoriale-relazionale in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" 112/2015, pp. 11-33
3rd part:
Students attending the lectures:
- Students present and discuss materials, agreed with the professor.
Students not attending the lectures, one text among the following ones:
- J. R. McNeill, P. Engelke (2018), La grande accelerazione: una storia ambientale dell'Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino
- P. McMichael (2016), Regimi alimentari e questioni agrarie, Rosenberg&Sellier, Torino.
Teaching methods
Conventional lectures and presentations of agreed issues by the students
Assessment methods
Due to the conditions determined by the obligation to carry out teaching and related activities online, the exam will be held orally, through the Team platform.
The score is assigned based on the following criteria:
- 65% for the consistency and accuracy of the answers to the questions on the topics concerning the first part of the course
- 35% for the other two questions.
These methods will be applied to the first appeal of the summer session, waiting to verify whether the situation will return to a condition of 'normality' or otherwise.
Teaching tools
Slides and other stuff for deepening issues available at the teaching stuff online site. The documents made available on IOL will be deleted a few months after the end of the course (and in any case, by June).
Office hours
See the website of Vando Borghi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.