Required Texts
Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. New York: G. Braziller, 1980. ISBN: 9780807609507.
Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515.
de Chungara, Domitila. Let Me Speak! New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780853454458.
Gutmann, Matthew. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520202368.
Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520229136.
Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520070721.
Readings by Class Session
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Defining “Development” | |
| Part 1: The Colonial Legacy: The Gendered Precedents of Development | ||
| 2 | The Colonial Legacy | Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. |
| 3 | The Colonial Legacy (cont.) | Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. (cont.) |
| 4 | Colonial Images of “Native” Women and Men |
Hobsbawm, Eric. “The Age of Empire.” Chapter 3 in The Age of Empire. Pantheon, 1987. ISBN: 9780394563190. Stoler, Ann Laura. “Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia.” In Gender / Sexuality Reader, Culture, History, Political Economy. Edited by Roger N. Lancaster, and Micaela di Leonardo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415910057. Meyrick, A. S. Selections from Woman in All Lands. (Primary document.) Copyright unknown. 1880. |
| 5 |
Film: First Contact Colonial Transformations of Gender |
Rothenberg, Diane. “The Mothers of the Nation: Seneca Resistance to Quaker Intervention.” In Women and Colonization . Edited by Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock. Bergin & Garvey, 1980. ISBN: 9780030525865. Allen, Judith Van. " ‘Sitting on a Man’: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women." Canadian Journal of African Studies 6, 2 (1972): 165-181. |
| 6 | Women, Tradition and Modernism |
Chatterjee, Partha. “Colonialism, Nationalism and Colonialized Women: the Contest in India.” In American Ethnologist. Walley, Christine. " ‘Searching for “Voices” ‘: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12, 3 (1997): 405-438. New York University, American Anthropological Association. |
| 7 | Socialism and Post-Colonialism | Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! |
| 8 | Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.) | Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! (cont.) |
| 9 | Film: Joe Leahy’s Neighbors | |
| Part 2: The Rise of Development Theory | ||
| 10 | The Rise of Development Theory |
Cooper, Fred, and Randal Packard, eds. “Introduction.” In International Development and the Social Sciences. Edited by Fred Cooper, and Randal Packard. Berkley: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520209572. Nyerere, Julius K. “Socialism and Rural Development.” Chapter 37 in Freedom and Socialism. Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1990. (African Variations: Julius Nyerere on Development.) ISBN: 9780196440606. Finnemore, Martha. “Redefining Development at the World Bank.” Chapter 7 in International Development and Social Sciences. |
| 11 | Critics from within the Economic Frame |
Ake, Claude. “The Development Paradigm and its Politics.” Chapter 1 in Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. ISBN: 9780815702207. Mitchell, Timothy. “Fixing the Economy.” Cultural Studies 12, 1 (1998): 82-101. Routledge. Sen, Amartya. “The Economics of Life and Death.” In Scientific American. May 1993. |
| Part 3: Development and Daily Life | ||
| 12 | Film: Our Friends at the Bank | Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515. |
| 13 | Development and Daily Life | Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.) |
| 14 | Development and Daily Life (cont.) | Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.) |
| 15 | Development and Bureaucracy |
Ferguson, James. “The Bovine Mystique: Power, Property and Livestock in Rural Lesotho.” Man 20: 647-74. Pigg, Stacey Leigh. “The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of ‘Villagers’ Beliefs’ in Nepal.” Cultural Anthropology 2, 2 (1996): 160-201. |
| 16 | Knowledge and the Environment |
Gupta, Akhil. “Indigenous Knowledges: Ecology.” In Postcolonial Developments. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822322139. Agarwal, Bina. “Development and Environment: ‘The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India’.” Feminist Studies 18, 1 (Spring 1992). Walley, Christine J. " ‘They Scorn Us Because We Are Uneducated’: Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park." Ethnography 3, 3 (2002): 265-298. |
| 17 | The Complexities of Activism |
Turner, Terence. “The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video-Making in Kayapo Communities.” Visual Anthropology Review 7, 2 (Fall 1991). Hodgson, Dorothy. Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania. |
| 18 | Film: Black Harvest | |
| Part 4: Further into Daily Life: The Politics of Poverty outside the Development Frame | ||
| 19 | The Politics of Wage Labor | Wolf, Diane. Selections from Factory Daughters. |
| 20 | Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds? | Duncan, Cynthia M. “Blackwell.” Preface and Chapter 1 in Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780300084566. |
| 21 |
Issues of Health Guest Speaker: Erica James |
Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. |
| 22 | Issues of Health (cont.) | Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. (cont.) |
| 23 | Film: Celso and Cora | Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. (cont.) |
| 24 | Thinking More About Gender | Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho. |
| 25 | Thinking More About Gender (cont.) | Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho. (cont.) |
