Summer 2017 - HIST 358 D100
Development, Aid and Difference in Historical Perspective (4)
Class Number: 3948
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 8 – Aug 4, 2017: Tue, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Aug 13, 2017
Sun, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Bidisha Ray
bray@sfu.ca
1 778 782-9604
Office: AQ 6241
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Prerequisites:
45 units, including six units of lower division history.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Examines "International Development" within a series of historical frames, including the history of imperialism, the history of international relations, globalization, and the cultural and intellectual history of North-South relations. Students who have credit for IS 358 may not take HIST 358 for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course is designed to introduce students to key institutions and experiments in the history of international development as experienced in South Asia, and to introduce students to interdisciplinary critiques of non–western development through one of its most remarkable examples: India. From the mid 20th century, institutions, practices and ideas associated with ‘development’ have accounted for some of the most ambitious experiments in social engineering. In this course we will investigate key experiments in the history of development—from attempts to transform farming and end hunger via the industrial miracle of the Green Revolution in India to attempts to transform sexual practices and stave off poverty via state-dictated population control.
The first half of the course will focus on the colonial history of development in its embodiment as colonial projects of ‘improvement’ and ‘civilisation’ during the latter decades of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. In the second half of the course, we will address how formal political independence in South Asia as well as World War II and decolonisation impacted the atmosphere on which developmental programmes could be constructed and executed.
South Asia the liberating product of a post-war and postcolonial world order, and to what degree was it merely an heir to British colonialism? What is the relationship between modernisation and colonialism? Why didn’t Five Year Plans work in India? Is it accurate to describe postcolonial Indian development as a ‘suspended revolution’?
Academic sources and popular cultural material will be used to explore a wide range of historical issues in development studies.
Students who do not have the necessary prerequisites may contact the instructor to ask for permission to enrol.
Grading
- Class participation 20%
- 2 Book Reviews – 15% +15% 30%
- Portfolio 20%
- Take home exam 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia, Routledge,2003 (free e-book)
Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi: the history of the world’s largest democracy , Pan, 2008. (paperback)
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