BRA, Development Complexity

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor, Undergraduate

Full Title: BRAZIL, DEVELOPMENT AND COMPLEXITY. This course is structured to support and promote a rigorous and pluralistic understanding of Brazil in its domestic and international multiple dimensions. Although Brazil shares some of its neighbors’ characteristics, the history, economy, social structure, and political dynamics of the only Portuguese speaking country in the Western Hemisphere recommend an approach taking into consideration its specificities. Based on an interdisciplinary perspective, the course will work with different levels of abstraction. We’ll review and update critically the different theoretical approaches to Development, including the ones within the framework of the new paradigm of Complexity Theory and, concomitantly, we will articulate that analysis with concrete elements of Brazil’s long-term historical trajectory in order to give intelligibility to processes that cannot be reduced to chronological sequences.