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DVST6901: The Global Politics of Development
2025 unit information
The 21st century world is far from the postwar vision of modernisation under the aegis of a liberal international order. What does development mean in a world that has never been more divided and unequal? When people, money, microbes, and coastlines move - and borders are 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 focus of development has shifted from growth to health, and expanded to include women and other marginalised groups, and in so doing also set in motion new kinds of politics and new ideas of progress.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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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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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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