Syllabus

Books

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph Williams (2008) The Craft of Research. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Especially part III, "Making a claim and supporting it" (pp. 105-170).
• McCloskey, Deirdre N. (1999) Economical Writing. Second edt. (2008). Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.

Compendium

The following articles is available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Your Student ID Card.

• Adams, W.H. (2009) ¡°The Dilemma of Sustainability¡±, in Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (London: Routledge), pp. 1-25.
• Clapp, J. and P. Dauvergne (2011) "Chapter 1: Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change" in Paths to a Green World: the Political Economy of the Global Environment. Cambridge, MIT Press. pp. 1 ¨C 18
• Geus, Marius de. (1999). "Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society". Utrecht: International Books, chapters 1-2, pp. 29-56
• Goldemberg J. and Lucon O. (2010) ¡°Energy: The Facts¡±, in "Energy, Environment and Development", 2nd ed. (London: Earthscan), pp. 101-179.
• Harrison, Lawrence  and Samuel  Huntington (2011),  "Culture  Matters.  How Values Shape Human Progress"  (New York: Basic Books), pp. 2-29. (The chapter on the curriculum is chapter 1, written by David Landes, and is called "Culture Makes Almost All the Difference") 
• Jasanoff, S. (2004) ¡°Heaven and Earth: The Politics of Environmental Images¡±, in Jasanoff, S and M.L.Martello (eds.) Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, MIT Press.  Pages 31 - 54
• Murphy, P.C. (2005) ¡°What a Book Can do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring¡±, University of Massachusets, pp. 199-221
• Nordaard, Kari Marie (2001), ¡°Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life¡±, Cambridge, Mass. And London: The MIT Press, chapter Introduction, pp. 1-12
• Polanyi, K. (1944) Chapter 15, ¡°Market and Nature¡± in The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Beacon Press, Boston, pp. 187-200
• Scott, J.C. (1998) Chapter 1. "Nature and Space"  in Seeing like a state. How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press, (pp 11-52)
• Syse. K. L. (2015) ¡°Celebrity chefs, ethical food consuption and the good life¡± in Syse, K.L. and Mueller. M.L. (eds.) Sustainable consumption and the good life : interdisciplinary perspectives, Routledge, ch. 10, pp. 165-182
• Thomas, A. (2000) ¡°Meanings and Views of Development¡±, in T. Allen and A. Thomas (eds.) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 23-48.
• Wilhite, H. and J. Norgard. (2004). ¡°Equating efficiency with reduction: A self-deception in energy policy¡±. Energy and Environment 15 (3): pp. 991-1011.
• Wilhite, H (2012). "The Energy Dilemma" in Bj?rkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies. Oslo: Unipub, pp: 81 - 97.
• Witoszek, N. (2011), ¡°Askeladden, or the Norwegian Tao¡± in Witoszek, N. The Origins of the Regime of Goodness: Remapping the Cultural History of Norway (Oslo 2011) , pp. 108-122.
• Witoszek, N. (2012) ¡°Enemies of Sustainability? The Empire of Vogue¡± in Bj?rkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies. Oslo: Unipub, pp: 119 - 134.

Articles available online

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The articles will also be available as pdf. files in Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

• Aguilar-St?en, M. and Hirsch, C  (2015) ¡°Environmental Impact Assessments, local power and self-determination: the case of mining and hydropower development in Guatemala¡±. The Extractive Industries and Society 2(3):472-479.
• Averchenkova, Alina, et al. (2014), Taming the beasts of 'burden-sharing': an analysis of equitable mitigation actions and approaches to 2030 mitigation pledges, Policy Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
• Banik, D. (2016) ¡®The Hungry Nation: Food Policy and Food Politics in India¡¯, Food Ethics 1(1) (fronter).
• Banik, D. and Hansen, A. (2016) ¡®The Frontiers of Poverty Reduction in Emerging Asia¡¯, Forum for Development Studies 43(1): 47-68.
• Birn, A.-E., Nervi, L., & Siqueira, E. (2016). Neoliberalism Redux: The Global Health Policy Agenda and the Politics of Cooptation in Latin America and Beyond. Development and Change, 47(4), 734-759. doi: 10.1111/dech.12247
• Birn, A. E. (2005). Gates's grandest challenge: transcending technology as public health ideology. Lancet, 366(9484), 514-519. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66479-3
• Bra¨¹tigam, D. (2011) ¡°China in Africa: What can Western donors learn?¡± Report for Norfund. pp. 1-18
• Bridge, G. (2004) ¡°Mapping the bonanza: geographies of mining investment in an era of neoliberal reform¡±, The professional geographer 56(3):406-421.
• Cornwall, A. and K. Brock (2006) ¡°What do buzzwords do for development policy? A critical look at ¡®participation¡¯, ¡®empowerment¡¯ and ¡®poverty reduction¡¯¡±. Third World Quarterly 26(7):1043-1060.
• Cornwall, A., E. A. Harrison, and A. Whitehead (2007). ¡°Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development¡±. In Development and Change, Vol 38(1), pp.1-20. .
• Darnton, Robert (1982) "What Is the History of Books?" Daedalus, 111(3), pp. 65-83.
• De Vos, P., Schuftan, C., Sanders, D., Labonte, R., Woodward, D., Birn, A. E., Serag, H. (2014). Commission on Global Governance for Health: just another report? Lancet, 383(9926), 1379-1380. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60674-7
• Doyle, C., & Patel, P. (2008). Civil society organisations and global health initiatives: problems of legitimacy. Social Science & Medicine, 66(9), 1928-1938
• Fairhead, J., Leach, M., & Scoones, I. (2012). ¡°Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?¡±  The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(2): 237-261.
• Fejerskov, A. (2017). The New Technopolitics of Development and the Global South as a Laboratory of Technological Experimentation. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 42(5): 947-968. Article first published online: May 15, 2017;Issue published: September 1, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243917709934
• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2011), World in transition ¨C A social contract for sustainability, Summary for policy-makers, WBGU, Berlin.
• Godfray, H.C.J., et al. (2010) Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People, Science, 327(5967), pp. 812-818
• Harman, S. (2016). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Legitimacy in Global Health Governance. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 22(3), 349-368
• IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 - Synthesis Report, Summary for policymakers
• Jackson, C. (1993) Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development. World Development. Volume 21, Issue 12, December 1993, s. 1947-1963 (in Fronter) 
• Khan, M. R. and M. Ashiqur Rahman (2007) ¡°Partnership approach to disaster management in Bangladesh: a critical policy assessment¡±, Natural Hazards 41:359¨C378.
• Li, X. & Banik, D. (2013) ¡®The Pursuit of Inclusive Development in China: From Developmental to Rights-Based Social Protection¡¯,Indian Journal of Human Development, 7(1): 205-221.
• Marmot, M., Friel, S., Bell, R., Houweling, T. A., & Taylor, S. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Lancet, 372(9650), 1661-1669. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61690-6
• Manyena, S. B. (2012), Disaster and Development Paradigms: Too Close for Comfort? Development Policy Review, 30: 327¨C345
• McMichael, P. (2009) ¡°A food regime genealogy¡±. The Journal of Peasant Studies vol 36 (1):139-169
• Mawdsley, E. (2015). Development geography 1: Cooperation, competition and convergence between ¡®North¡¯ and ¡®South¡¯. Progress in Human Geography. Progress report, 1-10
• Murdoch, J. and M. Miele, (1999). ¡°¡®Back to Nature¡¯: Changing ¡®Worlds of Production¡¯ in the Food Sector¡±. Sociologia Ruralis, 39, 465-483.
• Ottersen, O. P., Frenk, J., & Horton, R. (2011). The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute. Lancet, 378(9803), 1612-1613. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(11)61617-6
• Olson, R. (2000) ¡°Toward a Politics of Disaster: Losses, Values, Agendas, and Blame¡±, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 18(2): 265¨C287.
• Pfeiffer, J. (2003). International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaboration. Social Science & Medicine, 56(4), 725-738
• Prince, R. J. (2016). Public health and global interventions in Africa. Current History (May), 163-168
• Rampa, F. & Bilal, S. (2011). Emerging economies in Africa and the development effectiveness debate. Discussion paper no 107, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), March 2011, Maastricht, 1-30.
• Roalkvam & McNeill (2016), What Counts as Progress? The Contradictions of Global Health Initiatives, Forum for Development Studies, 43:1, 69-88,
• Sharma et. al (2016). Pocket Guide to the Paris Agreement, report published by European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi), April 2016.
• Smith, J., Buse, K., & Gordon, C. (2016). Civil society: the catalyst for ensuring health in the age of sustainable development. Globalization and Health, 12(1), 1-6. doi: 10.1186/s12992-016-0178-4
• Soper, Kate. 2008. Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the Role of Aesthetic Revisioning, Cultural Studies, 22:5, 567-587
• Standal, Karina and Winther, Tanja (2015). "Empowerment through Energy? Impact of Electricity on Care Work Practices and Gender Relations", in Forum for Development Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2015. (available in Fronter).
• Storeng, K. T. (2014). The GAVI Alliance and the 'Gates approach' to health system strengthening. Global Public Health, 9(8), 865-879. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.940362
• Weis, Tony (2010). ¡°The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture¡± in Journal of Agrarian Change 10:3. Pp. 315-341
• Westengen, O. T. and Banik, D. (2016) ¡¯The State of Food Security: From Availability, Access and Rights to Food Systems Approaches¡¯, Forum for Development Studies 43(1).
• Witoszek, N. (2016), 'Ecomodernity as a Cultural Programme; Combining Green Transition with an Educational Paradigm Shift' in Special Issue: Frontiers of Research on Development and the Environment, Vol. 43, no 1, March 2016, pp. 135-155.
• Wittman, H. (2009) ¡°Reworking the metabolic rift: La V¨ªa Campesina, agrarian citizenship, and food sovereignty¡± The Journal of Peasant Studies Vol 36 (4): 805-826.
• World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Chapter 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• Zhou, C. & Banik, D. (2014) ¡®Access to Justice and Social Unrest in China's Countryside: Disputes on Land Acquisition and Compensation¡¯, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 6(2): 254-275.