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Anthropology of International Development
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:17
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| Course Code: | KSK_071 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Klāvs Sedlenieks | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
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| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 9 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 18 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
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| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| 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. | ||||||||
| 7 | 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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