Development Studies: Theoretical Approaches

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Jasmine Gideon
• Assessment: two 4000-word learning journals (50% each)

This module introduces you to the multidisciplinary subject of development studies. It critically examines the key theories and concepts that have shaped thinking on poverty and development.

Indicative module content

• Defining development and poverty
• Buzzwords and fuzzwords: the politics of language/concepts
• Colonialism, culture and reconstruction of tradition
• Race, development and postcolonial theory
• Gender and development
• Modernisation
• Dependency and world systems theories
• Neoliberalism
• Marxism
• Postdevelopment and decoloniality