MONTCLAIR
STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT
OF ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH
530: Development Anthropology Fall
2003
Thursday
5:30–8:00 DI 436 Dr.
Richard W. Franke
Required Readings:
Franke,
Richard W. 2001. Fueling Economic Growth Through Democratic Participation:
Three Lessons from Kerala, India. Chautauqua Institution Lecture, August 2001.
To be distributed.
Franke,
Richard W. 2003. The Mararikulam Experiment: Women-Owned Cooperatives in Kerala,
India – A People’s Alternative to Corporate Dominated Globalization. Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter
58:8–11. To be distributed.
Franke,
Richard W., and Barbara H. Chasin. 1997. Power to the Malayalee People. Economic and Political Weekly
32(48):3061–68. To be distributed.
Thomas
Isaac, T. M., and Richard W. Franke. 2002. Local
Democracy and Development: The Kerala People’s Campaign for Decentralized
Development. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
McMichael,
Philip. 2000. Development and Social
Change: A Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. Second
Edition
Rahman,
Aminur. 1999. Women and Microcredit in
Rural Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending. Boulder
CO: Westview Press.
All
assigned books are available at the bookstore or will be distributed in class.
Course Requirements:
Complete assigned readings before class.
This will allow class discussions to review, criticize, and go beyond the
readings. Class participation will count 20% in determining grades. There will
be two take-home essay exams: a Midterm due in class on October 23 and a Final
due on December 18. Each exam will contain essay questions. Answers will be 6-8
pages in length, typed, double-spaced, or equivalent. Each exam is worth 40% of
the final grade.
Office Hours:
Come and discuss issues that arise in the
course or any problems that you are having understanding the materials. My
office is Dickson Hall 409, ext. 4133. My email is franker@mail.montclair.edu
Hours
when you can reach me: Wednesday 1:15–2:15 pm
Thursday 4:30–5:30 pm
Or
other times at your request.
Week TOPICS
TO BE STUDIED Readings
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September 4 |
Introduction: What Is Development
Anthropology? |
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September 11 |
What Is Development? What Is Globalization? |
McMichael
xiii–xliii |
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September 18 |
History of Development and Development Theories |
McMichael 3–76 |
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September 25 |
FILM and Discussion: Sugar Cane Alley |
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October 2 |
The Global Economy Reborn |
McMichael 79–112 |
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October 9 |
The Role of International Finance |
McMichael 113–146 |
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October 16 |
The New Globalization |
McMichael 149–237 |
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October 16 |
Midterm Exam Questions to be Given out
in Class. |
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October 23 |
FILM
and Discussion: Salaam Bombay |
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October 23 |
Midterm Exams Due in Class |
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October 30 |
Rethinking
Development |
McMichael 241–303 |
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November 6 |
The
Global Economy at the Village Level: An Anthropological View |
Rahman
(entire) |
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November 13 |
Kerala's
Democratic Decentralization: The Real Grameen Bank? |
Franke
and Chasin: Power to the Malayalee People; Franke: Fueling Economic Growth |
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November 20 |
Who
Makes Development Happen: Banks and NGOs or Workers and Activists? VIDEO:
Kerala, The Quiet Revolution |
Thomas
Isaac and Franke, pp. 1–114. |
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November 27 |
Thanksgiving
Holiday: No Class |
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December 4 |
Cooperatives
and Fair Trade: the Other Globalization? |
Thomas
Isaac and Franke, pp. 115–216 |
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December 11 |
Mararikulam:
The next stage in the Other globalization? Powerpoint
Presentation and Discussion: The Mararikulam Experiment |
Franke: The Mararikulam
Experiment |
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December 11 |
Final Exam Questions to be Given Out |
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December 18 |
FINAL EXAMINATION PAPERS DUE NO Exams by Fax or E-Mail |
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