FASoS - Globalization and Development 2025-2026.pdf
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… examining development agendas in the post-colonial period and discovering how (neo-)colonial thinking, the ‘white gaze’ in development, Global North policies, actors and institutions still play a dominant role in 21st century development challenges. Moreover, it investigates interdependencies on a global, transnational, national and local level, while considering the role of public, private and civil society actors. Thus, it aims to understand underlying development processes and unlock the ongoing … failures of slum ecologies and how they affect people; and also how citizens nevertheless find myriad modes of making the city their home. Fundamentally, this course takes as a starting point the question what it takes to live and survive in a city when one is very poor, marginalized, silenced, made invisible, or otherwise rendered peripheral. We take such qualifications to be effects of not only how cities are organized and governed 'from above', but also of specific ways of conceptualizing how … themes related to Globalization and Development. The chosen themes are connected to the preceding courses in period I and II. They have a global and structural dimension as well as cultural, local and personal features. The topics students work on should have a present-day importance and can be approached from a more abstract and theoretical, as well as an empirical and/or historical perspectives. Students will work on a paper and discuss work in progress with fellow students and tutors in the …