Syllabus

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Guide to the syllabus:

* :Compendium
@ : Online article
# : Book

 

Introduction 

@ Bull, B & B??s, M.  (2012) 'Between Ruptures and Continuity: Modernisation, Dependency and the Evolution of Development Theory,' Forum for Development
Studies, 39:3, 319-336, DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2012.688860

Block 1: Poverty and Development

@ 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.

@ 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.

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

@ Banik, D. (2016) ‘The Hungry Nation: Food Policy and Food Politics in India’, Food Ethics 1(1) (in Canvas).

@ Banik, D and Miklian, J (2017) “New Business: The Private Sector as a New Global Development Player”:  https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/24/11/2017/new-business-private-sector-new-global-development-player

@ Godfray, H.C.J., et al. (2010) Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People, Science, 327(5967), pp. 812-818

@ Li, X, Banik, D, Tang, L, Wu, J. (2014) “Difference or Indifference: China's Development Assistance Unpacked” in IDS Bulletin Volume 45, Issue 4. Special Issue: China and International Development: Challenges and opportunities, Editors Jing Gu, Xiaoyun Li, Gerald Bloom and Xiulan Zhang, July 2014, Pages 22-35 http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/article/view/158/PDF 

@ Westengen, O. T. and Banik, D. (2016) ’The State of Food Security: From Availability, Access and Rights to Food Systems Approaches’Forum for Development Studies 43(1).

@ OECD (2016): 'Better Policies for Sustainable Development', chapter 1. 

Block 2: Rural transformations: Society and the environment

#: Bernstein, H. 2010 Class dynamics of agrarian change. Fernwook Publishing

@: Marc Edelman, Tony Weis, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Eric Holt-Giménez, Deniz Kandiyoti & Wendy Wolford (2014) “Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty”, Journal of Peasant Studies, 41:6, 911-931, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.963568 

@: Derek Hall (2011) “Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms”, Journal of Peasant Studies, 38:4, 837-857, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2011.607706 

@: Carletto, C., Davis, B. Stampini, M. (2006) “A country on the move: International migration in post-comunist Albania.” International Migration Review 40(4):767-785  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2006.00043.x 

@: Carlos J. L. Gómez, Luis Sánchez-Ayala & Gonzalo A. Vargas (2015) “Armed conflict, land grabs and primitive accumulation in Colombia: micro processes, macro trends and the puzzles in between”, Journal of Peasant Studies, 42:2, 255-274, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.990893 

@: Anthony Bebbington & Denise Humphreys Bebbington (2011) “An Andean Avatar: Post-Neoliberal and Neoliberal Strategies for Securing the Unobtainable,” New Political Economy, 16:1, 131-145, https://doi.org/10.1080/13563461003789803 

@: Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford & Ben White (2018) “Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism”, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45:1, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1339693  

@: Aguilar-St?en, M. (2012). ‘Con nuestro propio esfuerzo’: Understanding the Relationships between International Migration and the Environment in Guatemala. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (93), 25–40. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/erlacs.8362 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Block 3: Communicating sustainability

* Landes, D (2011) "Culture Makes Almost All the Difference", chapter 1 in Harrison, Lawrence and Samuel  Huntington (eds),  Culture  Matters.  How Values Shape Human Progress  (New York: Basic Books), pp. 2-29.

@ Witoszek, N. (2016), “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.

* Witoszek, N. (2011), “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.

@ World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Chapter 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

@ Murdoch, J. and M. Miele, (1999). “‘Back to Nature’: Changing ‘Worlds of Production’ in the Food Sector”. Sociologia Ruralis, 39, 465-483.

* Syse. K. L. (2015) “Celebrity chefs, ethical food consumption 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

#: John S. Dryzek (1997, 3rd ed. 2013). The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses (Oxford University Press).

*Dunwoody, Sharon (2007). “The challenge of trying to make a difference using media messages”, chapter 5 in Moser, S and L. Dilling (eds) (2007). Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press) , pp. 89 - 104 (ISBN-13: 978-0521869232)

*Leiserowitz, Anthony (2007). “Communicating the risks of global warming: American risk perceptions, affective images and interpretive communities”, chapter 2 in Moser, S and L. Dilling (eds) (2007). Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press) , pp. 44 – 64 (ISBN-13: 978-0521869232)

*Moser, Susanne C. (2007). “More bad news: the risk of neglecting emotional responses to climate change information”, chapter 3 in Moser, S and L. Dilling (eds) (2007). Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press) , pp. 64 - 81 (ISBN-13: 978-0521869232)

*Ungar, Sheldon (2007). “Public Scares: changing the issue culture”, chapter 4 in Moser, S and L. Dilling (eds) (2007). Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press) , pp. 81 - 89 (ISBN-13: 978-0521869232)

Block 4: Global health and Development

@ Marmot, M., Friel, S., Bell, R., Houweling, T. A., & Taylor, S. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of healthLancet, 372(9650), 1661-1669. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61690-6

@ Pfeiffer, J. (2003). International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaborationSocial Science & Medicine, 56(4), 725-738

@ Prince, R. J. (2016). Public health and global interventions in Africa. Current History (May), 163-168

* Birn, A-E: Pillay, Y.: Holtz; T.H. (2017) “Chapter 3: The political economy of health and development” in Textbook of International Health. Global Health in a Dynamic World. Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press: New York & Oxford; 132-191

@ Buse, K. and A. M. Harmer (2007). "Seven habits of highly effective global public-private health partnerships: practice and potential." Social Science & Medicine 64(2): 259-271.

@ Farmer, P. (1996). "On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below." Daedalus 125(1): 261-283

@ Lee, K. and A. Kamradt-Scott (2014). "The multiple meanings of global health governance: a call for conceptual clarity." Global Health 10: (28) 1-10

@ McNeill, D.; Andresen, S. & Sandberg, K. (2013) "Chapter 3: The global politics of health: actors and initiatives” in Roalkvam, S., McNeill, D. & Blume, S. (eds.) Protecting the World's Children. Immunisation policies and Practices, Oxford University Press. :59-86. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199666447.001.0001

@ Storeng, K.T.; Behague, D (2016)  “Lives in the balance”: The politics of integration in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Health Policy & Planning Oct;31(8):992-1000 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czw023

Block 5: Energy, consumption and climate change

* Wilhite, H (2012). "The Energy Dilemma" in Bj?rkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies. Oslo: Unipub, pp: 81 - 97.

@ 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.

@ German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2011), World in transition – A social contract for sustainability, Summary for policy-makers, WBGU, Berlin.

@ IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 - Synthesis Report, Summary for policymakers

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

* Wilhite, H. and J. Norgard. (2004). “Equating efficiency with reduction: A self-deception in energy policy”. Energy and Environment 15 (3): pp. 991-1011.

@ Hansen, A., K.B. Nielsen and H. Wilhite (2016) “Staying cool, looking good, moving around: Consumption, sustainability and the ‘Rise of the South’”, Forum for Development Studies, 43(1), pp. 5–25. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08039410.2015.1134640?needAccess=true

@ Ivanova, D., K. Stadler, K. Steen-Olsen, R. Wood, G. Vita, A. Tukker and E.G. Hertwich (2015) “Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20(3), pp. 526–536. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.12371

@ Winther, T. and S. Bouly de Lesdain (2013) “Electricity, uncertainty and the good life: A comparison of French and Norwegian household responses to policy appeals for sustainable energy”, Energy and Environment Research, 3(1), pp. 71–84. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/eer/article/view/23242/15447 

* Winther, T. (2012). “Negotiating energy and gender: Ethnographic illustrations from Zanzibar and Sweden”, in K. B. Nielsen and K. Bj?rkdahl (eds), “Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies”. Oslo: Akademisk Forlag.  Pp. 191–207.

@ Fuss, Sabine et al. (2014), Betting on negative emissions, Commentary, Nature Climate Change, Vol. 4, No. 10. https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2392.pdf

 

Optional reading in block 5: 

@ For a quick introduction (8hrs) to energy’s physical aspects: Free online course ‘Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources’ offered at The Open University: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/environmental-science/energy-resources-introduction-energy-resources/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

* Alternatively, read Goldemberg J. and Lucon O. (2010) “Energy: The Facts”, in "Energy, Environment and Development", 2nd ed. (London: Earthscan), pp. 101-179.

 

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