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Study Course Description

Anthropology of International Development

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
KSK_071
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Sociology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

Objective

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Preliminary Knowledge

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Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

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Skills

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Competences

1.-

Assessment

Individual work

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% from total grade
Grade
1.

Individual work

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Examination

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Grade
1.

Examination

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Part 1
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

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  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

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  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Escobar A. 2005: Imagining a Post-Development Era. Edelman, M. and Haugerud A. (ed) The Anthropology of Development and Globalization. From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. London. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Pp341-349

2.

Eyben R. and Leon R. 2005: Whose Aid? The Case of the Bolivian Elections Project. In Mosse D. And Lewis D. (ed) The Aid Effect. Giving and Governing International Development. Pluto Press: London. Pp. 106-126.

3.

Ferguson, J. 2005: Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: “Development” in the Constitution of a Discipline. In Edelman, M. and Haugerud A. (ed) The Anthropology of Development and Globalization. From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. London. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Pp 140-155.

4.

Foucault M. 2006: Governmentality. In Sharma.A. and Gupta A. (ed) The anthropology of the state. Blackwell Publishing. Malden, Oxford, Victoria. Pp. 131-144

5.

Hobart, Mark (1993) “Introduction: the growth of ignorance” in An Anthropological Criticue of Development. The Growth of Ignorance. Hobart (eds) Routledge, London, New York. pp. 1-31.

6.

Leys C. 2005: The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. In Edelman, M. and Haugerud A. (ed) The Anthropology of Development and Globalization. From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. London. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Pp 126-140.

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Mosse, D. 2005: Global Governance and the Ethnography of Aid. In Mosse D. And Lewis D. (ed) The Aid Effect. Giving and Governing International Development. Pluto Press: London.

8.

Wedel, R.J. 1998: Collision and Collusion. The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998. St. Martin’s Press. New York.

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