Week

 Topic

 Readings

 Multi Media

1

Introduction to the Course and the Idea of Development

2

Orientalism and Development

On Orientalism-Edward Said

Mickey Mouse Monopoly

3

Theories of Development: Modernization to Neo-Liberalism

 Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

4 

Rethinking Development: Culture, Gender, and Post Development

10.  Kapoor 2008  The Post Colonial Politics of Development   Ch. 2 "The Culture of Development Policy"  (p. 19-37)

Who's Counting, Marilyn Waring

5 

Imperialism, Colonialism and Independence

11.   McMichael  Ch2 "Instituting the Development Project"

12.  Weatherford "Indian Givers"

1. -Ch. 2 Piracy, Slavery and the Birth of Corporations and
2. -Ch. 3 The American Indian Path to Industrialization

Africa Episode - The Bible and the Gun and the Magnificent

African Cake.

The Other Side of The Leger

6

Crisis and Decline of National Developmentalism

13.  McMichael  Ch4 "Globalizing the National Economy"

14.   McMichael  Ch5 "Demise of the Third World"

15.  George, ‘How Poor Develop the Rich' (p. 207 213)

Africa: The Rise of Nationalism and The Legacy

7

Debt Crisis and the rise of Global institutions

16.  Hanlon "Debt and Development" (Haslam Ch. 14)

17.  Gwynne, S.C. 1983 "Adventures in the Loan Trade"

18.  Taylor "International Financial Institutions" (Haslam Ch. 9)

19.   McMichael  Ch6 "Instituting the Globalization Project"

 Life and Debt

8 

Globalization TNC Capital Mobility, Labor Mobility and the Third World.

20.  Haslam  "Multinational Corporations" (Haslam Ch. 11)

21.  McMichael  Ch7 "The Globalization Project in Practice"

22.  Barndt (2008)"On the Move for Food: Truckers and Transnational Migrants" (p. 186-203)

China Blue

el Contrato

9

The Problems Of Canadian Democracy and Capitalism

23.  Linda McQuaig, "The Cult of Impotence"

24.   Valpy, "The foreign Policy Myth"

25.  Engler, “The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy” 4-21and 98-103

26.  Stephen Brown, "CIDA under the Gun" pp. 172-207

Bitter Paradise

Under Rich Earth

10

Development Assistance, NGOs and the Evolution of Canadian Foreign Aid Policy

27.  Brown "National Development Agencies and Bilateral Aid" (Haslam Ch. 8)

28.  Smillie "Foreign Aid and Canadian Purpose"

29.  M Kane "Canada and Africa"

The Skeptics' Journey

11

Indigenous People and Development

(The fourth world)

30.  T. Gordon, "Canadian Capitalism and dispossession of Indigenous peoples"

31.  J. Corntassel, "To be Ungovernable"

32.  Rutherford and Maracle  “Red  Power Legacies and Lives”

33.   Radcliffe and Laurie 2006 "Culture and Development: taking culture seriously in development for Andean indigenous people"

We Have Such Things at Home

The Ballad of Crowfoot

12

Where do we go from here?

34.  Cameron and A. Haanstra, "Development Made Sexy"

35.  McMichael Ch. 9 "Development For What"

36.  Peet and Hartwick, "Critical Modernism, Radical Democracy, Development" (p. 195-210)

Nature of Things: Accidental Revolution Part 1

Ricky Gervais

Thirst