Syllabus/achievement requirements

* means that the article is in a compendium that you can buy in Kopiutsalget, Gnist Akademika:

Classics

* Abramovitz, M. 1998. Catching up, forging ahead and falling behind. (1986). Selgison, M. A. & J.T. Passé-Smith. Development and underdevelopment. The political economy of global inequality. Second edition. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder. 95-114. 20p.

* Arrighi, G. 1973. Labour supplies in historical perspective: a study of the proletarianisation of the African peasantry in Rhodesia. G. Arrighi & J.S. Saul (eds). Essays on the political economy of Africa. Monthly review press, New York. 55p.

* Baran, P. 1973. The political economy of growth. Penguin, Harmondsworth. 132-157. 26p.

* Brookfield, H. 1973. On one geography and a Third World. Inst.Br.Geogr. Trans., No. 58. 1-21. 22p.

Cardoso, F.H. 2000. Dependency and development in Latin America (1972). Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (eds). From modernization to globalization. Perspectives on development and social change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 10p.

Frank, A.G. 2000. The development of underdevelopment. (1969). Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (eds). From modernization to globalization. Perspectives on development and social change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 10p.

Fr?bel, F., J. Heinrichs & O. Kreye. 2000. The new international division of labour in the world economy. (1980). Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (eds). From modernization to globalization. Perspectives on development and social change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 17p.

* Gould, P. 1970. Tanzania 1920-63: the spatial impress of the modernisation process. World Politics, Vol. 22, No. 2. 149-170. 22p.

* Harrison, L.E. 1998. Underdevelopment is a state of mind. (1985). Selgison, M. A. & J.T. Passé-Smith. Development and underdevelopment. The political economy of global inequality. Second edition. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder. 231-239. 9p.

* Hunt, D. 1989. Economic theories of development: An analysis of competing paradigms. Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York. Ch. 4, 86-112. 27p.

Janvry, A. de & C. Garramón. 2000. The dynamics of rural poverty in Latin America. (1977). Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (eds). From modernization to globalization. Perspectives on development and social change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 10p.

* Laclau, E. 1971. Feudalism and capitalism in Latin America. New Left Review, No. 67. 20p.

Lewis, O. 2000. A study of slum culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968). Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (eds). From modernization to globalization. Perspectives on development and social change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 9p.

Leys, C. 1996. The rise & fall of development theory. James Currey, Oxford. 3-163. 160p.

* Riddell, J.B. 1981. The geography of modernization in Africa: A re-examination. Canadian Geographer, Vol. XXV, No. 3. 290-298. 9p.

* Rodney, W. 1989. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. English Press, Nairobi. Ch. 1, 9-37; Ch. 4, 103-123 (not part 4.3); Ch. 6, 223-260 (not part 6.3 og 6.4). 89p.

Rostow, W.W. 2000. The stages of economic growth: A non-communist manifesto. (1960). Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (eds). From modernization to globalization. Perspectives on development and social change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 9p.

* Slater, D. 1974. Contribution to a critique of development geography. Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 8. 325-354. 30 p.

Contemporary debates

Amin, S. 1996. On development: For Gunder Frank. Chew, S.C. & R.A. Denemark (eds). The underdevelopment of development. Sage, London. Ch. 3. 59-86. 27p.

Chang, H.-J. 2002. Kicking away the ladder. Development strategy in historical perspective. Anthem, London. Ch. 1, 2 and 4. 85p.

* Edwards, M. 1994. Rethinking social development: the search for ‘relevance’. Booth, D. (ed.) Rethinking social development. Longman, Harlow. 279-297. 19p.

Frank, A.G. 1996. The underdevelopment of development. Chew, S.C. & R.A. Denemark (eds). The development of underdevelopment. Sage, London. C 2. 17-55. 36p.

Held, D. & A. McGrew (eds). 2000. The global transformations reader. Polity Press, Cambridge. Ch. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 36. 125p.

* Lall, S. 1996. Paradigms of development: The East Asian debate. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, s. 111-131. 19p.

* Landes, D. 2001. Culture makes almost all the difference. Harrison, L.E. & S.P. Huntington. (eds). Culture matters: How values shape human progress. Basic Books. 2-13. 12p.

* McDowell, L. 1995. Understanding diversity: the problem of/for “theory”. Johnston, R.J. et al. (eds). Geographies of global change. Blackwell, Oxford. 280-294. 15p.

* Parayil, G. 2000. Kerala. The development experience. Zed, London. Ch. 1, 2 (1-39); ch 12 (230-248). 58p.

Pieterse, J.N. 2001. Development theory. Deconstructions/reconstructions. All chapters less no.9. 150p.

* Raply. J. 1996. Understanding development. Theory and practice in the Third World. Lynne Rienner Publishers, London. 55-78. 24p.

* Schuurman, F.J. (ed.). 1993. Beyond the impasse. New directions in development theory. Zed, London. 1-32, 49-69. 52p.

* Schuurman, F.J. 2000. Paradigms lost, paradigms regained? Development studies in the twenty-first century. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1. 7-20. 14p.

* Sen, A. 1999. Development as freedom. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Ch. 1, 2, 4. 65p.

* Simon, D. 2003. Dilemmas of development and the environment in a globalizing world: Theory, policy and praxis. Progress in Development Studies, Vol.3, No.1. 5-41. 36p.

* Simon, D. 1999. Development revisited: thinking about, practicing and teaching development after the Cold War. Simon, D. & A. N?rman (eds). Development as theory and practice. DARG Regional Development Series No. 1. Longman, London. 17-46. 30p.

* Sunkel, O. (ed.). 1993. Development from within. Toward a neostructuralist approach for Latin America. Lynne Tienners, Boulder. Ch. 1, 2. 5-59. 51p.

Globalization

* Amin, S. 1997. Capitalism in the age of globalization. Zed, London. Ch. 1. 1-11. 11p.

Callinicos, A. 2003. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto. Polity Press, London. 192p

* Kay, C. 1999. Rural development: from agrarian reform to neoliberalism and beyond. Gwynne, R.N. & C. Kay (eds). Latin America transformed. Globalization and modernity. Arnold, London. Ch. 11. 31p.

* Knutsen, H.M. 1998. Globalization and international division of labour. Two concepts – one debate? Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 52, No. 3. 151-162. 12p.

* Milanovic, B. 2003. The two faces of globalization: Against globalization as we know it. World Development, Vol.31, No.4. 667-683. 16p.

O’Hearn, D. 1999. Tigres and transnational corporations: pathways from the periphery? Munck, R. & D. O’Hearn (eds). Critical development theory – a contribution to a new paradigm. Zed Books, London. 113-132. 20p.

Suthcliffe, B. 1999. The place of development in theories of imperialism and globalization. Munck, R. & D. O’Hearn (eds). Critical development theory – a contribution to a new paradigm. Zed Books, London. 135-152. 18p.

In addition, 300 pages of individual choice on a selected theme.

Selected themes

Below are some examples of themes with relevant literature from which you may choose. You may choose a theme not given below. However, you must select one theme only (not literature from several lists).

Urbanization and shelter

Amis, P. & P. Lloyd (eds). Housing Africa’s urban poor. Manchester University Press, Manchester. Introduction and Ch. 1. 55p.

Burgess, R. 1977. Self-help housing: A new imperialist strategy? A critique of the Turner school. Antipode, Vol. 9, No. 2.

Burgess, R. 1992. Helping some to help themselves: Third World housing policies and development strategies. Mathéy, K. (ed.). Beyond self-help housing. Profil Verlag, München. 75-90. 15p.

Chan, K.W. & Y. Hu. 2003. Urbanization in China in the 1990s: New definition series, and revised trends. The China Review, Vol. 3, No. 2. 49-71.

Clark, C. & D. Howard. 1999. Cities, capitalism and neoliberal regimes. Gwynne, R.N. & C. Kay (eds). Latin America transformed. Globalization and modernity. Arnold, London. Ch. 12. 18p.

Cohen, B. 2004. Urban growth in developing countries: A review of current trends and a caution regarding existing forecasts. World Development, Vol.32, No.1. 23-51.

Hesselberg, J. 1995. Urban poverty and shelter: an introduction. Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 49. 151-160. 10p.

Hesselberg, J. 1996. Shelter strategies and the urban poor. Forum for Development Studies, No. 2. 405-415. 11p.

Moser, C.O.N. 1992. Women and self-help housing projects. A conceptual framework for analysis and policy-making. Mathéy, K. (ed.). Beyond self-help housing. Profil Verlag, München. 53-73. 20p.

Pugh, C. 2000. Sustainable cities in developing countries. Earthscan, London. Ch. 1, 2, 10. 80p.

Smith, D.A. 1996. Third World Cities in global perspective. The political economy of uneven urbanization. Westview Press, Oxford. Ch. 1, 8. 34p.

Turner, J.F.C. 1976. Housing by people. Marion Boyars, London.

UNCHS. 1995. Shelter provision and employment generation. Nairobi.

UNCHS. 2000. Strategies to combat homelessness. Nairobi.

World Bank. 1993. Housing. Enabling markets to work. Washington, DC.

Three journals are especially relevant for finding shelter-related articles: Environment and Urbanization; Third World Planning Review; Habitat International

Poverty

Baulch, B. & N. McCulloch. 1998. Being poor and becoming poor: Poverty status and poverty transitions in rural Pakistan. IDS Working Paper No. 79. Sussex. 3-23. 21p.

Bhalla, A. & F. Lapeyre. 1997. Social exclusion: Towards an analytical and operational framework. Development and Change, Vol. 28, No. 3. 413-434. 22p.

Geremek, B. 1994. Poverty. A history. Blackwell, Oxford. 1-72, 230-247. 88p.

Good, K. 1999. The state and extreme poverty in Botswana: The San and destitutes. Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2.185-205. 21p.

Guhan, S. & B. Harriss.1992. Introduction. Harriss, B. et al. (eds). Poverty in India. Research and policy. Oxford University Press, Bombay. 1-26. 27p.

Hanmer, L.C. et al. 1999. What do the World Bank’s poverty assessments teach us about poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa? Development and Change, Vol. 30, No. 4. 795-822. 27p.

Harriss, B. 1992. Rural poverty in India: Micro level evidence. Harriss, B. et al. (eds). Poverty in India. Research and policy. Oxford University Press, Bombay. 333-389. 56p.

Hossain, N. 1999. How do Bangladeshi elites understand poverty? IDS Working Paper No. 83, Sussex. 3-40. 37p.

Humle, D. & A. Shepherd. 2003. Conceptualizing chronic poverty. World Development, Vol.31, No.3. 403-423.

IDS. 1999. Nationalising the anti-poverty agenda? Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 2. 6-136. 130p.

Kanji, N. 1995. Gender, poverty and economic adjustment in Harare, Zimbabwe. Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 7, No. 1. 37-55. 19p.

Khan, A.R. 1998. The impact of globalization on South Asia. Bhalla, A.S. (ed.). Globalization growth and marginalization. Macmillan, London. 103-124. 22p.

Lockwood, M. & A. Whitehead. 1998. Rescuing gender for the poverty gap: World Bank poverty assessments and gender. UNRISD, Geneva. 1-40. 39p.

Lustig, N. & R, Deutsch.1998. The Inter-American Development Bank and poverty reduction: An overview. IADB, Washington D.C. 1-35. 34p.

Mckay, A. & D. Lawson. 2003. Assessing the extent and nature of chronic poverty in low income countries: Issues and evidence. World Development, Vol.31, No.3. 425-439.

Mehta, A.K. 2003. Chronic poverty in India: Incidence, causes and policies. World Development, Vol.31, No.3. 491-511.

Moore, M. & J. Putzel. 1999. Thinking strategically about politics and poverty. IDS Working Paper No. 101. Sussex. 3-32. 30p.

Moore, M. et al. 1998. How can we know what they want? Understanding local perceptions of poverty and ill-being in Asia. IDS Working Paper No. 80. Sussex. 3-24. 22p.

Ravallion, M. & J. Jalan. China’s lagging poor areas. American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 2. 301-305. 5p.

Scoones, I. 1995. Investigating difference: Applications of wealth ranking and household survey approaches among farming households in southern Zimbabwe. Development and Change, Vol. 26, No. 1. 67-88. 12p.

Tendulkar, S.D. 1992. Economic growth and poverty. Harriss, B. et al. (eds). Poverty in India. Research and policy. Oxford University Press, Bombay. 27-57. 31p.

UNDP. 1998. Overcoming human poverty. New York. 13-94. 82p.

Wood, G. 2003. Staying secure, staying poor: The "Faustian Bargain". World Development, Vol.31, No.3. 455-471.

World Bank. 2001. World Development Report 2000/2001. Oxford University Press.

Wratten, E. 1995. Conceptualizing urban poverty. Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 7, No. 1.11-36. 25p.

Environment and industry

Angel, D.P. & M.T. Rock (eds). 2000. Asia’s clean revolution. Industry, growth and the environment. Greenleaf, Sheffield. 11-154. 143p.

Gwynne, R.N. & E. Silva. 1999. The political economy of sustainable development. Gwynne, R.N. & C. Kay (eds). Latin America transformed. Globalization and modernity. Arnold, London. Ch. 7. 25p.

Hesselberg, J. (ed.). 1998. Environmental problems and policy: The firm level. FIL Working Papers, No. 13. 52p.

Murray, W.E. 1999. Natural resources, the global economy and sustainability. Gwynne, R.N. & C. Kay (eds). Latin America transformed. Globalization and modernity. Arnold, London. Ch. 6. 33p.

Welford. R. 2000. Corporate environmental management 3. Towards sustainable development. Earthscan, London. 174p.

Migration

Bach, R.L. & L.A. Schraml. 1982. Migration, crisis and theoretical conflict. International Migration Review, No. 162. 320-341. 22p.

Gardner, K. 1996. Global migrants, local lives: Travel and transformation in rural Bangladesh. Clarendon, Oxford.

Hammer, T. et al. (eds). 1997. International migration, immobility and development. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Berg, Oxford.

Heyes, G. 1991. Migration, metascience, and development policy in Island Polynesia. The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 3, No. 1. 1-58. 59p.

Massey, D. 1999. Imagining globalization: Power-geometries of time-space. Brah, A. et al. (eds). Global futures. Migration, environment and globalization. Macmillan, Basingstoke. 18p.

Portes, A. 1999. Conclusion: Toward a new world. The origins and effects of transnational activities. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2. 463-477. 15p.

Taylor, J.E. (ed.). 1996. Development strategy, employment and migration: Insight from models. OECD, Paris.

Vertovec, S. 1999. Conceiving and researching transnationalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2. 447-462. 16p.

Weyland, P. 1993. Inside the Third World village. Routledge, London. 257p.

Labour and labour markets

Adam, H. 1998. Corporatism as ethnic compromise: labour relations in post-apartheid South Africa. Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 4, No. 3. 347-362. 15p.

Breman, J. 1999. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India. – The formal sector: An introductory review. Parry, J.P. et al. (eds). The worlds of Indian industrial labour. Sage, London. Ch. 1. 42p.

Breman, J. 1999. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India. – The informal sector: A concluding review. Parry, J.P. et al. (eds). The worlds of Indian industrial labour. Sage, London. Ch. 14. 26p.

Burawoy, M. 1985. The politics of production: Factory regimes under capitalism and socialism. Verso, London. 272p.

Green, N.L. 1996. Women and immigrants in the sweatshop: Categories of labor segmentation revisited. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 38, No. 3. 411-33. 22p.

Hill, E. 2001. Women in the Indian informal economy: Collective strategies for work life improvement and development. Work, Employment and Society, Vol.15, No.3. 443-464.

Lee, E. 1998. The Asian financial crisis. The challenge for social policy. ILO, Geneva. 98p.

Leontaridi, M.R. 1998. Segmented labour markets: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic surveys, Vol. 12, No. 1. 63-101. 38p.

Munck, R. & P. Waterman (eds) 1999. Labour worldwide in the era of globalization. Alternative union models in the new world order. Macmillan, London. 368p.

Ndabezitha, S.W. & S.K. Sanderson 1988.Racial antagonism and the origins of apartheid in the South African gold mining industry, 1886-1924: A split labor market analysis. Research in Race and Ethnic Relations, Vol. 5. 231-253. 22p.

Peck, J. 1996. Work Place. The social regulation of labor markets. The Guilford Press, New York. 320p.

Sapsford, D. & Z. Tzannatos. 1993. The economics of the labour market. Macmillan, Basingstoke. 463p.

Sticher, S. 1976. Imperialism and the rise of a ‘Labour Aristocracy’ in Kenya, 1945-1970. Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 21. 157-178. 21p.

Thomas, M. & L. Vallée. 1996. Labour market segmentation in Cameroonian Manufacturing. The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 32, No. 6. 876-898. 22p.

Politics

Beckman, B. 2000. Trade Unions and Institutional Reform. Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons. Paper to a conference on ”New Institutional Theory, Institutional Reform and Poverty Reduction”. London School of Economics and Political Science, 7-8 September. 23p.

Bierschenk, T. & J.-P. de Sardan. 1997. Local Powers and a Distant State in Rural Central African Republic. The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3. 441-468. 28p.

Bratton, M. 1994. Peasant-state relations in postcolonial Africa: Patterns of engagement and disengagement. Migdal, J.S., A. Kohli & V. Shue (eds). State Power and Social Forces. Cambridge University Press. 231-54. 21p.

Desai, V. & R. Imrie. 1998. The New Managerialism in Local Governance: North-South Dimensions. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4. 635-650. 13p.

Engberg-Pedersen, L. & N. Webster. 1999. Introduction to political space. Unpublished manuscript. 25p.

Fine, B. 1999. The Development State is Dead - Long Live Social Capital? Development and Change, Vol. 30, No. 1. 1-19. 15p.

Fox, J. 1996. How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural Mexico. World Development, Vol. 24, No. 6.

Harris, J. 2000. The Dialectics of Decentralisation. A Note. Paper to a Workshop on ”Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries”, University of Oslo, November 16-18. 7p.

Kohli, A. & V. Shue. 1994. State power and social forces: On political contention and accommodation in the Third World. Migdal, J.S., A. Kohli & V. Shue (eds). State Power and Social Forces. Domination and Transformation in the Third World. Cambridge University Press. 293-326. 31p.

Lindberg, S. & A. Sverrison (eds). 1997. Social Movements in Development. The Challenge of Globalization and Democratization. Macmillan, Basingstoke.

McEwan, C. 2000. Engendering citizenship: Gendered spaces of democracy in South Africa. Political Geography, Vol. 19, No. 5. 627-651. 23p.

Mohan, G, K. Stokke & P. Shurmer-Smith. Forthcoming. Postcolonial Political Geography. Sage, London. Approx. 150p.

Nyamugasiri, W. 1998. NGOs and advocacy: How well are the poor represented? Development in Practice, Vol. 8, No. 3. 297-308. 11p.

Oldfield, S. 2000. The centrality of community capacity in State low-income housing provision in Cape Town, South Africa. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 24, No. 4. 858-872. 13p.

Stokke, K. 1994. The postcolonial African state and development geography. Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 48. 123-131. 8p.

Sverrison, A. 1998. The Politics and Governance of Poverty Alleviation Programmes: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Learning from Latin America? O'Neill, H. & J. Toye (eds). A World Without Famine? New Approaches to Aid and Development. Macmillan, Basingstoke. 449-488. 35p.

Food and agriculture

Agarwal, B. 1994. A field of one’s own. Gender and land rights in South Asia. Cambridge University Press.

Atkinson, P. & I. Bowler. 2001. -Food in society. Economy, culture, geography_. Arnold, London.

Downing, T.E. et al. (eds). 1992. Development or destruction. The conversion of tropical forest to pasture in Latin America. Westview, Oxford.

Drèze, J. et al. (eds). 1995. The political economy of hunger. Clarendon, Oxford.

Ellis, F. 1993. Peasant economics. Farm households and agrarian development. Second edition. Cambridge University Press.

Janvry, E. de. 1981. The agrarian question and reformism in Latin America. Johns Hopkins University Press, London.

Lappé, F.M. et al. 1998. World hunger. 12 myths. Second edition. Earthscan, London.

Shanin, T. 1990. Defining peasants. Blackwell, Oxford.

Web: IDS, Sussex, has many working papers and discussion papers on agriculture.

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