GS211
Global Perspectives on Development
Fall 2025
Topics
- Development history and measurement
- modernization, Keynesianism and neoliberalism
- dependency and world-systems theories
- aid and multilateral institutions
- gender
- sustainability.
Readings
- Katie Willis, Theories and Practices of Development (2021), assigned chapters; edition not visible.
- Jessica Schafer, Paul Haslam and Pierre Beaudet, Meaning, Measurement, and Morality in International Development (2017), selected pages.
- Carole Biewener and Marie-Hélène Bacqué, Feminism and the Politics of Empowerment in International Development (2015).
- Chandra Mohanty, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (1984).
- Andrea Cornwall, Buzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing Development Discourse (2007).
- Background to Latin America (1963), required documentary; The Commanding Heights, recommended.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public syllabus copy ↗Fall 2025
- Selected readings; original Fall 2025 header retained despite host metadata.