Syllabus and Lecture Plan SANT220: Anthropology, Intervention and Development Spring 2017 Course responsible: Tord Austdal Updated 31.03.2017 Part I: Introduction to the Anthropology of Development (two lectures) Lecture 1: Introduction: Anthropological Approaches to Development Crewe, Emma and Richard Axelby 2013 Introduction: Hope and Despair, in Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World, 1–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 26pp. Crewe, Emma and Richard Axelby 2013 Anthropologists Engaged, in Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World, 27–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 18pp. Lecture 2: Anthropological approaches to giving Eyben, Rosalind and Rosario Leon 2005 Whose Aid? The Case of the Bolivian Elections Project, in The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development, D. Mosse and D.Lewis (eds), 106-125. London: Pluto Press. 19pp. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bergen/detail.action?docID=10479941 Mauss, Marcel 1954 The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. London: Routledge. 107pp. Part II: Poverty, Inequality and Development (four lectures) Lecture 3: Poverty: How is it produced and how do we think about it? Broch-Due, Vigdis 1995 Poverty Paradoxes: The Economy of Engendered Needs. Occasional Papers, The Nordic Africa Institute (4). 26pp. http://pva.uib.no/login?url=http://nai.divaportal.org/smash/get/diva2:288769/FULLTEXT01.pdf Brown, Marvin 2010 Free Enterprise and the Economics of Slavery. Real-world economics review, 52: 28-39. 11pp. http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue52/Brown52.pdf O'Connor, Alice 2002 Giving Birth to a ‘Culture of Poverty’: Poverty Knowledge in Postwar Behavioral Science, Culture and Ideology, in Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Polity, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, 99-123. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 24pp. Lecture 4: The Gendering of Poverty and Interventions Murphy, Julia E. 2011 Feminism and the Anthropology of 'Development': Dilemmas in Rural Mexico. Anthropology in Action, 18 (1): 16-28. 13pp. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1768219000/fulltextPDF/8E31B736430E454FPQ/4?accountid=857 9 Silberschmidt, Margrethe 2005 Poverty, male disempowerment, and male sexuality: rethinking men and masculinities in rural and urban East Africa, in African masculinities: Men in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present, L. Ouzgane and R. Morrell (eds), 189-204. London: Palgrave. 15pp. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bergen/detail.action?docID=10135400 Lecture 5: Development Interventions: Intended and Unintended Outcomes Haney, Lynne 2000 Global Discourse of Need: Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary, in Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, Michael Burawoy et al. (eds.), 48–73. Berkeley: University of California Press. 25pp. Loftsdóttir, Kristín 2009 Invisible Colour: Landscapes of Whiteness and Racial Identity in International Development. Anthropology Today, 25 (5): 4-7. 4 pp. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467- 8322.2009.00685.x/abstract Lecture 6: Oil for Development or the Effects of Oil Development? Guest Lecturer, Marianna Betti Reyna, Stephen P. 2007 The Traveling Model That Would Not Travel: Oil, Development, and Patrimonialism in Contemporary Chad. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 51 (3): 78- 102. 23pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sa.2007.510304 Stammler, Florian 2011 Oil Without Conflict?: The Anthropology of Industrialization in Northern Russia, in Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil, Andrea Behrends, Stephen P-Reyna and Gunther Schlee (eds), 243- 269. London: Berghahn Books. 23pp. Sawyer, Suzana 2003 Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest, in In Search of the Rain Forest, Candace Slater (ed.), 69−100. Durham: Duke University Press. 31 pp. Lecture 7: Participatory Development: Equal Collaboration between Unequal Partners? Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio 1988 The Art of Being Indirect: Talking about Politics in Brazil. Cultural Anthropology 3 (4): 444-454. 10 pp. http://www.jstor.org/stable/656488 Green, Maia 2003 Globalizing development in Tanzania: Policy franchising through participatory project management. Critique of Anthropology, 23 (2): 123–143. 20 pp. http://coa.sagepub.com/content/23/2/123.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc Willson, Margaret 2010 Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. 320 pp. Ystanes, Margit 2014 Saving Guatemala's ‘Mayan Forest’: The Environmental Crisis and Contested Development, in Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, Kristín Loftsdóttir and Lars Jensen (eds), 121–142. Farnham: Ashgate. 21 pp. Part III: Anthropological Debates and Contributions to Development Studies (two lectures) Lecture 8: Discourse and Agency: Understanding Development Processes Escobar, Arturo 1991 Anthropology and the Development Encounter: The Making and Marketing of Development Anthropology. American Ethnologist, 18 (4): 658–682. 24 pp. http://www.jstor.org/stable/645446 Friedman, John T. 2006 Beyond the Post-Structural Impasse in the Anthropology of Development. Dialectical Anthropology, 30 (3/4): 201–225. 24 pp. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29790763 Ferguson, James 1994. The Anti-Politics Machine, in The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depolitization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, 251-278. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press. 28 pp. Lecture 9: Development Processes and Local knowledge Nash, June 2003 Indigenous Development Alternatives. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 32 (1): 57–98. 41 pp. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40553612 Sillitoe, Paul 2010 Trust in Development: Some Implications of Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (1): 12–30. 18 pp. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01594.x/full Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter 2012 Development from Below and Oil Money from Above: Popular Organization in Contemporary Venezuela, in Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas, John Andrew McNeish and Owen Logan (eds), 133-155. 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