Type of course

The course can be taken as a singular course.

Theoretical course.

Course content

The course focuses on the major conceptualisations of development and globalization, and on the effects of the changing international political and economic relationships between the multilateral institutions, the state and the civil society. The thematic issues, which will serve as points of departure for the lectures/seminars, - include: global governance institutions - IMF, World Bank and WTO; trade - liberalization, rural development; NGOs role in empowerment and microcredit versus micro-finance; gender perspectives on livelihood strategies and the informal economy. Illustrative cases will be drawn from both the South and the North. Among the questions highlighted are; what have been the predominant development pathways in different regions and sub-regions? Who have mostly influenced the global discourses on development, economic growth and human rights in the late 20th century? What are the economic macro policies, and modern technologies that have facilitated trade, financial investments and migration across national borders? Why has the distribution of the benefits from these global developments been uneven between regions, nations and social groups within nations?

Objectives of the course

Students who have successfully completed the course should have achieved the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

• A basic qualitative and quantitative knowledge about contemporary debates about economic globalization and its assumptions; the shifting relations between multilateral institutions, states and civil society; emerging geo-political global and regional inequalities; human rights as a form of cultural globalization; and finally the role of NGOs as the third global sector and their roles in poverty reduction.

Analytical understanding:

• Abilities to make sense of current social science and popular debates about economic globalization, of key features of the new geo-economy and the human rights regime and of the role of multilaterals, NGOs and the private sector in reducing poverty.

Skills and competences:

• Competent application of key theoretical and analytical concepts and of relevant statistics to the relevant areas of policy making and planning.

Language of instruction and examination

The language of instruction is English..

Teaching methods

The course consists of 8 double lectures and 6 single hour seminars.

Quality control of the course

The course will be evaluated at the end of the semester.

Assessment

The assessment method will consist of a 6 hour school exam.

The Grade-scale goes from A (tope score) to E (pass) and F (fail). The mark F opens for new exam.

Obligatory attendance in 75 percent of the lectures must be documented.

Recommended reading/syllabus

(Preliminary -to be edited)

Globalization - general:

Afshar, H. & Barrientos, S. (eds.)(1999) "Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation" in Afshar, H. & Barrientos, S. (eds.)(1999) Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World. Houndmills: MacMillan Press Ltd. pp. 1-17. (17)

Allen, T. & Thomas, A. (2000) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century.

Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.1-48, 345-364 (67)

Benería. Lourdes (2003) "Global/ Local Connections: Employment Patterns, Gender, and Informalization" in Benería : Gender, Development, and Globalization. Economics as if All People Mattered London: Routledge pp. 91- 130 (39)

De Ruijter, Arie (2001) "Globalization: A Challenge to the Social Sciences" in Schuurman, Frans J (ed) Globalization and Development Studies. Challenges for the 21st Century. London: Sage pp.31-43 (12)

Dicken, P. (2003) Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century. London: SAGE Publications. pp. 1-82 (82) .

Gardner, K. & Lewis, D. (1996) Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge. London: Pluto Press. pp.1-186 (186)

Guttal, S. (2007) "Globalisation" in Development in Practice, vol. 17, no4-5 pp.523-531 (8)

Nagar, Richa et. al (2002) "Locating globalisation, feminist re-reading of the subjects and spaces of globalisation" in Economic Geography Vol. 78 no 2 pp. 57-88 (31)

Sumner, A. (2007) "Meaning versus Measurement: Why do "economic" indicators of poverty still predominate?" in Development in Practice, vol. 17, no 1 pp. 4-13 (9)

Tomlinson, John (2001) "Vicious and Benign Universalism", in Schuurman, Frans J (ed) Globalization and Development Studies. Challenges for the 21st Century. London: Sage pp.45-59 (14)

Globalization- migration (156)

Bakewell, Oliver (2008) " ¿Keeping Them in Their Place¿: The ambivalent relationship between development and migration in Africa", in Third World Quarterly Vol.29, no 7 pp 1341-1358 (17)

Global Forum on Migration and Development (2005) "Migration and development: realizing the potential of human mobility¿ Chapter 2. http://www.gcim.org/attachment/gcim.hpml (8)

Hale, Angela and Jane Wills (2007) ¿Women Working Worldwide: transnational networks, corporate social responsibility and action research¿ Global Networks Vol4 pp. 453-476 (23)

Kunz, Rahel (2008) " ¿Remittances are Beautiful¿? Gender implications of the new global remittances trend" in Third World Quarterly Vol. 29. 7 pp. 1389- 1409 (20)

Munck, Ronaldo (2008) "Globalisation, Governance and Migration: an introduction" in Third World Quarterly Vol. 29.7 pp. 1227-1246 (19)

Pieke, Frank A et al (2007) ¿Beyond control? The mechanics and dynamics of ¿informal¿ remittances between Europe and Africa¿ Global Networks Vol 3 pp. 348- 366 (18)

Piper, Nicola (2008) "Feminisation of Migration and the Social Dimensions of Development: the Asian Case" in Third World Quarterly Vol. 29.7 pp. 1287-1303 (16)

Skeldon, Ron (2005) "Globalization, Skilled Migration and Poverty Alleviation: Brain Drains in Context" Working paper T15. University of Sussex http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/working_papers/WP-T15.pdf (35)

Globalisation - institutional agents, gender, and chains (141)

Bessis, Sophie (2003) ¿International Organisations and Gender: New Paradigms and Old Habits¿ Signs Vol. 29 No.2, pp.633-647 (14)

Jaquette, Jane S. and Kathleen Staudt (2006) "Women, Gender, and Development" in J. Jaquette and G. Summerfield (eds) Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice. Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization Durham: Duke University Press. Pp17-

52. (35)

Martens, Bertin (2005) ¿Why Do Aid Agencies Exist?¿ Development Policy Review Vol.23 (6) pp 643-663 (20)

Peet, R. (2003) Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO. London: Zed. pp pp. 1-55 . (55)

Prügl, Elisabeth and Audrey Lustgarten (2006) " Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations" in J. Jaquette and G. Summerfield (eds) Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice. Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization Durham: Duke University Press. Pp. 53-70 (17)

Globalization, commodity, value- and other ¿chains (243)

Bair, J. (2005) ¿Global capitalism and commodity chains: looking back, going forward¿. Competition and Change vol. 9 pp153-180 (27)

Dolan, Catherine and John Humphrey (2000) "Governance and trade in fresh vegetables: the impact of UK supermarkets on the African horticulture industry" in Journal of Development Studies Vol. 37, 2 pp. 147-176 (29)

Fold, Niels (2001) "Restructuring the European chocolate industry and its impact on cocoa growing in West Africa", in Journal of Economic Geography Vol. 1, 3 pp. 405-20 (15)

Gereffi, Gary et al (2005) "The governance of global value chains" in Review of International Political Economy Vol 12. 1 pp. 78-104 (26)

Humphrey, John (2007) ¿The supermarket revolution in developing countries: tidal wave or tough competitive struggle?¿ Journal of Economic Geography Vol. 7 pp.433-450 (17)

Kaplinsky, R. (2000) "Globalisation and Unequalisation: What Can Be Learned from Value Chain Analysis"? Journal of Development Studies 37, 2. pp 117-146 (29)

Ponte, Stefano (2002) "The ¿Latte Revolution¿? Regulation, Markets and Consumption in the Global Coffee Chain" in World Development Vol 3. 7 pp 1095- 1122 (23)

Pratt, Andy C. (2008) "Cultural commodity chains, cultural clusters, or cultural production chains?" In Growth and Change Vol. 39 (1) pp. 95-103 (8)

Riisgaard, Lone (2009) "Global Value Chains, Labor Organization and Private Social Standards: Lessons from East African Cut Flowers Industries" in World Development Vol 37. 2 pp 326-340 (16)

Sturgeon, Timothy J. (2008) "From Commodity Chains to Value Chains: Interdisciplinary theory building in an age of globalization", in Jennifer Bair (ed) Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research Stanford U. Press. Ch. 6. http://web.mit.edu/ipc/publications/pdf/08-001.pdf

Topik, Steven and Mario Samper K. (2001-1002) "The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain" http://www.sshi.stanford.edu/conferences/2001-2001/global (35)

Wright, Caroline (2009) ¿ Fairtrade Food: Connecting Producers and Consumers¿ in Inglis and Gimlin (eds) Globalization of Food Oxford: Berg pp139- 157 (18)

Recommended further reading

Globalisation

Benería, Lourdes (2003) "Markets, Globalization, and Gender", in Lourdes Benería: Gender,Development, and Globalization. Economics as if All People Mattered London:

Routledge pp.63- 90 (27)

Davids, Tine and Francien van Driel (2001) "Globalization and Gender: Beyond Dichotomies", in Schuurman, Frans J (ed) Globalization and Development Studies. Challenges for the 21st Century. London: Sage pp.153- 174 (21)

Giulianotti, Richard and Roland Robertson (2007) ¿Recovering the social: globalization, football and transnationalism¿ Global Networks Vol.2 pp. 144-186

Hylland-Eriksen, Thomas (2007) ¿Steps to an ecology of transnational sports¿ Global Networks Vol. 2, pp. 132-165

Sassen, Saskia (2003) "Global Cities and Survival Circuits" in Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russel Hochscild (eds) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy London: Granta Books. Pp. 254- 274 (20)

Migration

Beath, Andrew L.(2006) " Migration" in Ian Goldin and Kenneth Reinert Globalization for Development. Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration, and Policy. Houndmills and New York: The World Bank and Palgrave McMillan. Pp.151-192

Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (2007) ¿Transnational lives, transnational marriages: a review of the evidence from migrant communities in Europe¿ Global Networks Vol 3 pp 271-288

Benería, Lourdes (2008) ¿The crisis of care, international migration, and public policy¿ Feminist Economics Vol. 14, 3 pp. 1-21 (21)

Kofman. Elenore et al. (2000) "Gender and migration theory", in Kofman, E. et al. Gender and International Migration in Europe. Employment, Welfare, Politics London: Routledge pp. 21-43 (22)

Nayyar, Deepak (2008) "International Migration and Economic Development" in Narcis Serra and Joseph E. Stiglitz (eds) The Washington Consensus Reconsidered. Towards a New Global Governance Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.277- 305 (18)

Silvey, Rachel (2006), ¿Consuming the transnational family: Indonesian migrant domestic workers to Saudi Arabia¿ Global Networks Vol 6 pp 23-40 (17)

Parreñas, Rachel (2005) ¿Long distance intimacy: class, gender and intergenerational relations between mothers and children in Filipino transnational families¿ Global Networks pp 317-336 (19)

Panagakos, Anastasia and Heather Horst (2006) ¿Return to Cyberia: technology and the social worlds of transnational migrants¿ Global Worlds pp.109- 124 (15)

Raghuram, Parvati (2009) "Caring about ¿brain drain¿ migration in a postcolonial world" in Geoforum Vol. 40, 1 pp.25-33 (8)

Wilding, Raelene, (2006), ¿Virtual¿ intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts¿ Global Networks Vol 6. pp. 125-142

Williams, Allan M (2007), ¿International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi-level perspective¿ Global Networks Vol 7. 1 pp 29-50

Åkesson, Lisa (2008) ¿Remittances and inequality in Cape Verde: the impact of changing family organization¿ Global Networks vol. 3, 3. pp. 381-398

Globalisation - institutional agents, gender, and chains

Gibbon, Peter (2007) ¿Africa, Tropical Commodity Policy and the WTO Doha Round¿ Development Policy Review Vol 25, 1, pp. 43-70 (27)

Killick, Tony (2004) ¿Politics, Evidence and the New Aid Agenda¿ Development Policy Review Vol.22 (1) pp. 5- 29 (24)

Manning, Richard (2006) ¿Will ¿Emerging Donors¿ Change the Face of International Co-operation¿? Development Policy Review Vol. 24 (4) pp. 371-385

deRenzio, Paolo (2006) ¿Aid, Budgets and Accountability: A Survey Article¿ Development Policy Review, Vol. 24 (6) pp. 627- 645

Wallace, Tina with Lisa Bornstein and Jennifer Chapman (2007) The Aid Chain. Coercion and Commitment in Development NGOs Kampala: Fountain Publishers

Globalization, commodity, value- and other ¿chains¿

Barrientos. Stephanie and Diane Perrons (1999) "Gender and the Global Food Chain: a Comparative Study of Chile and the UK" in Afshar, H. & Barrientos, S. (eds.)(1999) Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World. London: MacMillan Press Ltd. pp. 150- 173 (23)

Brown, et al (2010) ¿World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: towards a world-systems¿ integration¿ Global Networks Vol. 10 (1) pp. 12-34

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase and Steven Topik (2003) "Introduction: Coffee and Global Development" in Clarence-Smith, William Gervase and Steven Topik (eds) The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 1-17 (17)

Coe, Neil et al (2010) ¿Making Connections: Global Production Networks and World City Networks¿ Global Networks Vol 10 (1) pp. 138-149 (11)

Derudder, Ben and Frank Witlox (2010) ¿World Cities and Global Commodity Chains: an introduction¿ Global Networks Vol 10, 1, pp. 1-11 (11)

Inglis, David and Debra Gimlin (2009) ¿Food Globalizations: Ironies and Ambivalences of Food, Cuisine and Globality¿ in Inglis and Gimlin (eds) pp.3-42 (39)

Neven, David and Thomas Reardon (2004) ¿The Rise of Kenyan Supermarkets and the Evolution of their Horticulture Product Procurement Systems¿ Development Policy Review Vol.22 86) pp. 669-699 (30)

Samper, Mario (2003) "The Historical Construction of Quality and Competitiveness. A Preliminary Discussion of Coffee Commodity Chains" in Clarence-Smith, William Gervase and Steven Topik (eds) The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 120- 153 (23)

Weatherspoon, David and Thomas Reardon (2003) ¿The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa: Implications for Agrifood Systems and the Rural Poor¿ Development Policy Review pp. 333-355 (22)

Weller, Sally (2007) ¿Fashion as viscous knowledge: fashion¿s role in shaping trans-national garment production¿ Journal of Economic Geography Vol. 7 pp. 39-66 (27)