2012-2013 Academic Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ID 245 - Culture, Politics, and International Development

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
Examines the interplay of culture and politics with international-development practices in an era of increasing globalization. Designed to encourage students to explore recent insights into the workings of discourse and power, and to examine how we can relate, in both theory and practice, these insights to processes of development and resistance to development in the Third World. Considers specific cases and historical processes to understand the effects on local communities of specific development interventions.