Readings

• Keith Griffin. 1979. Underdevelopment in history. Pp 77-90 in C. Wilber (ed) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment (2nd edition). New York: Random House. In Canvas.
• Maggie Black. 2015. No-Nonsense Guide International Development: Illusions and Realities. Oxford: New Internationalist (Read one of the following two: chapter 2, ‘Aid: The International Contribution,’ pp 31-51, and chapter 3,  ‘Economic Development: Who benefits?’ pp 52-73). In Canvas.
• Adom Getachew. 2020. Colonialism made the modern world. Let’s remake it. July 27, New York Times. Also in Canvas.
• Shirin Rai. 2011. The history of international development: Concepts and contexts. Pp 14-21 in N. Visvanathan, L. Duggan, L. Nisonoff, N. Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader (2nd edition). London: Zed Books.
• Joe Cochrane. 2016. Gridlocked Jakarta becomes even worse, at least for a week. April 10, New York Times. In Canvas.

Lecture pages:

• The role of colonialism
• What is structural adjustment lending?
• A model of social change
• Summarizing development?
• Rural Women and Empire (Power Point)

Video (optional)

• Godfrey Reggio. 1988. Powaqqatsi. MGM. (Part I). If you want to get a visual interpretation of life in transition, historically and from rural to urban (be patient), about 50 min.
• Ian Urbina. 2021. How fish meal production is destroying Gambia’s waters. March 31, The New Yorker.