International Development
MWF 10:10-11:00.
P. D. McMichael. Spring.

New questions concerning development models in the post-Cold War era are examined from a comparative and global perspective on North-South relations. While the focus is the "Third World," the issues confronting it are often global, even when they concern the most basic issue of food security. Using films and various theoretical perspective, we examine Southern societies (economies, ecologies, class/gender relations) and the impact of global forces on Southern resources. Such forces include global food systems, new forms of export production, development agencies, multilateral institutions, local bureaucracies, transnational corporations, the debt crisis, and new technologies. Also examined, are the new global justice movements, such as environmentalism, feminism, landless workers, peasant and grassroots activism.