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DVST6901: Development: Civil Society and Wellbeing
2024 unit information
Now well into the twenty-first century, the world is a long way from the postwar vision of modernization under the aegis of a liberal international order. Today, we must ask what development means in a world that has never been more divided, unequal, and yet in which all of us remain interdependent. When people, money, microbes, and coastlines move---and borders and drawn and redrawn---what do powerful, wealthy societies owe the global majority? Can guest workers, squatters, and First Nations do what green revolutions couldn't? This class examines how the sites of development politics have shifted from states and toward regimes of global movement and grassroots struggles for alternatives.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Anthropology
| Code | DVST6901 |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Corequisites:
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SSCP6900 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand the main issues and debates within the study of citizenship, civil society, and the public sphere.
- LO2. Understand the difference between and be able to identify normative claims and empirical claims, and the respective roles of each as part of rigorous inquiry into a topic.
- LO3. Be able to take a position on an open question, either normative or empirical, and to draw on several types of scholarly inquiry to develop an argument for one's position.
- LO4. Be able to bridge divides among disciplinary paradigms and modes of inquiry to apply the results of empirical research to a critique of theory.
- LO5. Understand and take a position on the role of normative inquiry and empirical research in the critique of dominant ideologies in the wider society
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