Latin American and Latino Studies
LALS 159 Critical Approaches to International Development
Introduces critical approaches to topics in international development, based on an understanding of development as a fundamentally power-ridden field. The first half of the course examines how the idea of the underdeveloped Third World has been produced, exploring topics such as global governance for poverty reduction, transnational actors, foreign aid, neoliberalism, and shifting policy focus on international development. The second half is devoted to case studies on gender mainstreaming, extractivism, diversity, and the financialization of the social.
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