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Module ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT

Module code: KD261
Credits: 5
Semester: 2
Quota: 50
Department: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
International: No
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The main goal is to introduce students to some of the key principles and approaches recommended for use within development practice as well as to anthropological perspectives on development. Students will be encouraged to explore theories and concepts underpinning current approaches and to develop a critically reflective attitude in examining them. It is proposed that the stream would be structured to allow students to complete the Participatory Development Practice module in Semester 1, and that this would establish a good foundation for them to undertake the module in Anthropological Perspectives in the second Semester.

Following on from the Development Studies emphasis of the previous module, this second module tries to familiarize students with critical anthropological perspectives on global poverty and inequality, and the efforts to address it, using a core ethnography and shorter theoretical texts. The course begins by considering the long historical process of the making of the contemporary Global South, and goes on to probe the exacerbation of global inequality in the era of globalization. Excerpts from key texts by Worsley, Appadurai and Scheper-Hughes are among the readings assigned for the first segment of this module. The second segment is based on a close textual reading of the classic ethnography on the subject of development, James Ferguson's 'The Anti-Politics Machine'.

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