Syllabus

Compendium

The following articles is available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Your Student ID Card.

• Adams, W.H. (2009) ¡°The Dilemma of Sustainability¡±, in Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (London: Routledge), pp. 1-25.
• Clapp, J. and P. Dauvergne (2011) "Chapter 1: Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change" in Paths to a Green World: the Political Economy of the Global Environment. Cambridge, MIT Press. pp. 1 ¨C 18
• Geus, Marius de. (1999). "Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society". Utrecht: International Books, chapters 1-2, pp. 29-56
• Goldemberg J. and Lucon O. (2010) ¡°Energy: The Facts¡±, in "Energy, Environment and Development", 2nd ed. (London: Earthscan), pp. 101-179.
• Harrison, Lawrence  and Samuel  Huntington (2011),  "Culture  Matters.  How Values Shape Human Progress"  (New York: Basic Books), pp. 2-29.
• Jasanoff, S. (2004) ¡°Heaven and Earth: The Politics of Environmental Images¡±, in Jasanoff, S and M.L.Martello (eds.) Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, MIT Press.  Pages 31 - 54
• Murphy, P.C. (2005) ¡°What a Book Can do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring¡±, University of Massachusets, pp. 199-221
• Nordaard, Kari Marie (2001), ¡°Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life¡±, Cambridge, Mass. And London: The MIT Press, chapter Introduction, pp. 1-12
• Scott, J.C. (1998) Chapter 1. "Nature and Space"  in Seeing like a state. How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press, (pp 11-52)
• Syse. K. L. (2015) ¡°Celebrity chefs, ethical food consuption and the good life¡± in Syse, K.L. and Mueller. M.L. (eds.) Sustainable consumption and the good life : interdisciplinary perspectives, Routledge, ch. 10, pp. 165-182
• Thomas, A. (2000) ¡°Meanings and Views of Development¡±, in T. Allen and A. Thomas (eds.) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 23-48.
• Wilhite, H. and J. Norgard. (2004). ¡°Equating efficiency with reduction: A self-deception in energy policy¡±. Energy and Environment 15 (3): pp. 991-1011.
• Witoszek, N., ¡°Askeladden, or the Norwegian Tao¡± in Witoszek, N. The Origins of the Regime of Goodness: Remapping the Cultural History of Norway ( Oslo 2011) , pp. 108-122.

Articles available online

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The articles will also be available as pdf. files in Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

• Aguilar-St?en, M. and Hirsch, C  (2015) ¡°Environmental Impact Assessments, local power and self-determination: the case of mining and hydropower development in Guatemala¡±. The Extractive Industries and Society 2(3):472-479.

• Appadurai (2001), Deep Democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics, Environment&Urbanization Vol 13 No 2 October 2001

• Averchenkova, Alina, et al. (2014), Taming the beasts of 'burden-sharing': an analysis of equitable mitigation actions and approaches to 2030 mitigation pledges, Policy Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

• Banik, D. (2016) ¡®The Hungry Nation: Food Policy and Food Politics in India¡¯, Food Ethics 1(1) (forthcoming).

• Banik, D. and Hansen, A. (2016) ¡®The Frontiers of Poverty Reduction in Emerging Asia¡¯, Forum for Development Studies 43(1): 47-68.

• Bra¨¹tigam, D. (2011) ¡°China in Africa: What can Western donors learn?¡± Report for Norfund. pp. 1-18

• Bridge, G. (2004) ¡°Mapping the bonanza: geographies of mining investment in an era of neoliberal reform¡±, The professional geographer 56(3):406-421.
•  Brown, T.M., M. Cueto, et al. (2006) The World Health Organization and the Transition from ¡®International¡¯ to ¡®Global¡¯ Public Health, American Journal of Public Health, 96(1), pp. 62-72.
• Clemens et.al (2007) The Trouble of the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of AID and Development Success. World Development Vol 35,No.5 pp.735-751.
• Cornwall, A. and K. Brock (2006) ¡°What do buzzwords do for development policy? A critical look at ¡®participation¡¯, ¡®empowerment¡¯ and ¡®poverty reduction¡¯¡±. Third World Quarterly 26(7):1043-1060.
• Cornwall, A., E. A. Harrison, and A. Whitehead (2007). ¡°Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development¡±. In Development and Change, Vol 38(1), pp.1-20. .
• Darnton, Robert (1982) "What Is the History of Books?" Daedalus, 111(3), pp. 65-83.
• Ericksen, P.J. (2008) ¡°Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research¡±. Global Environmental Change 18:234-245
• Fairhead, J., Leach, M., & Scoones, I. (2012). ¡°Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?¡±  The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(2): 237-261.
• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2011), World in transition ¨C A social contract for sustainability, Summary for policy-makers, WBGU, Berlin.
• Godfray, H.C.J., et al. (2010) Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People, Science, 327(5967), pp. 812-818
• Hansen, Arve (2015). "Transport in transition: Doi moi and the consumption of cars and motorbikes in Hanoi" in SAGE Journal of Consumer Culture August 25, 2015
• Howell, S. (2014) ¡®No RIGHTS¨CNo REDD¡¯: Some Implications of a Turn Towards Co-Benefits in Forum for Development Studies
• IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 - Synthesis Report, Summary for policymakers
• Jackson, C. (1993) Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development. World Development. Volume 21, Issue 12, December 1993, s. 1947-1963
• Janes, C.R. and K.K. Corbett (2009) Anthropology and Global Health, Annual Review of Anthropology, 38, pp. 167-183
• Labont¨¨, R. and Schrecker, T.(2007), Globalization and social determinant of health: Introduction and methodological background. (part 1 of 3) Globalization and health 2007 3-5
• Labont¨¨, R. and Schrecker, T. (2007), Globalization and social determinants of health. The role of the global marketplace. (part 2 of 3) Globalization and health 3-6
• Labont¨¨, R. and Schrecker, T. (2007), Globalization and Social Determinants of health equity in global governance (part 3 of 3) Globalization and health 3-7

• Li, X. & Banik, D. (2013) ¡®The Pursuit of Inclusive Development in China: From Developmental to Rights-Based Social Protection¡¯,Indian Journal of Human Development, 7(1): 205-221.

• Khan, M. R. and M. Ashiqur Rahman (2007) ¡°Partnership approach to disaster management in Bangladesh: a critical policy assessment¡±, Natural Hazards 41:359¨C378.
• Manyena, S. B. (2012), Disaster and Development Paradigms: Too Close for Comfort? Development Policy Review, 30: 327¨C345
• McMichael, P. (2009) ¡°A food regime genealogy¡±. The Journal of Peasant Studies vol 36 (1):139-169
• Mawdsley, E. (2015). Development geography 1: Cooperation, competition and convergence between ¡®North¡¯ and ¡®South¡¯. Progress in Human Geography. Progress report, 1-10
• Murdoch, J. and M. Miele, (1999). ¡°¡®Back to Nature¡¯: Changing ¡®Worlds of Production¡¯ in the Food Sector¡±. Sociologia Ruralis, 39, 465-483.
• Olson, R. (2000) ¡°Toward a Politics of Disaster: Losses, Values, Agendas, and Blame¡±, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 18(2): 265¨C287.

• Rampa, F. & Bilal, S. (2011). Emerging economies in Africa and the development effectiveness debate. Discussion paper no 107, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), March 2011, Maastricht, 1-30.

• Roalkvam & McNeill (2016), What Counts as Progress? The Contradictions of Global Health Initiatives, Forum for Development Studies, 43:1, 69-88,

• Sassen (2000), The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier, American Studies, 41:2/3 (Summer/Fall 2000): 79-95

• Sharma et. al (2016). Pocket Guide to the Paris Agreement, report published by European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi), April 2016.

• Soper, Kate. 2008. Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the Role of Aesthetic Revisioning, Cultural Studies, 22:5, 567-587
• Standal, Karina (2015). "Thinking Beyond The Box: Addressing Afghanistan's Gender Inequality and Energy Poverty the 'Barefoot' way" in Tvergastein Issue 6, September 2015. (Available in Fronter)

• Watkins et al (2012), Outsourcing Social Transformation: Development NGOs as Organizations, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 38: 285-315

• Witoszek, N., 'Ecomodernity as a Cultural Programme; Combining Green Transition with an Educational Paradigm Shift' in Special Issue: Frontiers of Research on Development and the Environment, Vol. 43, no 1, March 2016, pp. 135-155.
• Wittman, H. (2009) ¡°Reworking the metabolic rift: La V¨ªa Campesina, agrarian citizenship, and food sovereignty¡± The Journal of Peasant Studies Vol 36 (4): 805-826.
• World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Chapter 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• Zhou, C. & Banik, D. (2014) ¡®Access to Justice and Social Unrest in China's Countryside: Disputes on Land Acquisition and Compensation¡¯, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 6(2): 254-275.