Popular Culture and Development

3 credits · Undergraduate

Development does not occur in a vacuum; it is informed by a particular cultural understanding and carried out by a specific mode of politics. Similarly, culture too, unlike the common belief, is not an autonomous realm, but consistently shapes and is shaped by other societal dimensions. This course will seek to understand the connections between culture and development by specifically exploring the dynamics of popular culture and its linkages with capitalist forms of development mainly in the South. PREREQUISITES: INTD 2001.03 and INTD 2002.03 or instructor's permission FORMATS: Seminar