minor_fasos_gd_2022-2023.pdf
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… acknowledges colonial legacies in the field of development by examining development agendas in the post-colonial period and discovering how (neo-)colonial thinking, policies, actors and spaces still play a 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 … the structural 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 departs from the question what it takes to live and survive in a city when one is very poor, marginalized, silenced, made invisible, patronized, 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 … themes related to Globalization and Development. The chosen themes are connected with 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 …