300626 Thinking about Development from Anthropology (30-M25) (S) (SoSe 2025)
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What, actually, is development? The word seems self-evident, but it is worth thinking about. Who gets to decide what it means, and to decide the rules of what is development and what is not? Anthropologists have generally considered development as social change arising from planned or unplanned interventions, yet critics of development often point to such social changes as being conceived in the global North and exported to the South with little meaningful discussion. Accordingly, whose version of future building prevails, and to what end? Why do so many development projects not produce their desired results or are labelled as failures?
This course engages with all these questions, and more. It will familiarise students with how social anthropologists approach development issues and allow you to develop your own analyses of development issues with references to the sort of questions anthropologists consider when thinking about development.
Bibliography
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Hylland Eriksen, T (2010) Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, Pluto Press
Escobar, Arturo. 2011. Encountering Development : The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Dates ( Calendar view )
| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| weekly | Do | 14:00-16:00 | S1-126 | 07.04.-18.07.2025
not on: 5/1/25 / 5/29/25 / 6/19/25 |
Subject assignments
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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| 30-M25 Fachmodul Transnationalisierung, Migration und Entwicklung | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information |
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This course is suitable for BA students. Some background in anthropology, sociology, or politics is helpful but not required.
Learning objectives:
- Students acquire an in-depth understanding of selected issues of development and issues around development
- Students are exposed to a range of theories regarding development and development issues
- Students are encouraged to think about development anthropologically and to understand ways in which anthropologists have engaged with development issues.
Key skills:
• Discussion skills: able to present ideas clearly, formulate a coherent argument, respond to other ideas constructively, and develop confidence in one’s ability to engage with other people in a discussion.
• Reading skills: able to prepare for the weekly seminars and the essay, identify key arguments and evidence used in a piece of writing and then critically appraise them.
• Writing skills: able to prepare an essay, including the ability to identify a relevant topic synthesize academic sources, and construct an original and well-presented argument.
• Research skills: locate information that is relevant to the themes of the module.
• Self-reliance: able to manage time efficiently and be sufficiently reliable for group work, and to independently locate, evaluate, and use anthropological literature.
• Group work: able to prepare presentations, organize meetings
• Presentation skills: be able to present information clearly and confidently and to develop confidence in presenting ideas in a supportive atmosphere
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- Type(s) / SWS (hours per week per semester)
- seminar (S) / 2
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- This lecture is taught in english
- Department
- Faculty of Sociology
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