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Course description

This course examines the political dynamics of development and resistance. We examine development as a contradictory and contested project with global and local dimensions. The course introduces critical frameworks of analysis for understanding and evaluating development policies and practices, and resistances to injustices these engender. We combine relational and critical historical analysis with insights from political economy and postcolonial/decolonial thought and politics, and critically engage with conventional development theories and policies. Throughout the course, we draw on examples, including for instance big issues such as hunger and the food sovereignty movement, indigenous water defender movements, campaigns for 'rights to the city', labour and movements for social protections, and the struggles of the landless movement. A key objective of this course is to enable us to think about development in new and potentially transformative ways, aligned with decolonial struggles for justice in and over development and inequality.

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