Development studies

• A well-presented and convincing argument  
• Relevant examples, from secondary sources as well if desired, from your own experience 
• Logical development of idea 

• Clear structure (summary/overview; introduction; development of idea; examples/case studies; conclusion) 
• Clear conclusions  
• References  

• Startingpoint: Definition of development, is development a useful word? How do weunderstand better life?

• Whatconstitutes good change?
  

• How defineswhat is better and for whom?

• Alternativerealities? Alternatives that are being missed?

• Address the question directly. 
  

• Make sure you use a case study or examples, can use one case study or different cases. Not just conceptualized arguments
  

• Minimum of 10 references

• Engagementwith the literature, not just use 
  

Sources:

McKay, J. (2008) Reassessing development theory: ‘modernisation’ and beyond, in Kingsbury, D., Remenyi, J., McKay, J. and Hunt, J., Key issues in development, [chapter 2]. Basingstoke:  Palgrave Macmillan,  

Sultana, F. 2019. Decolonizing development education and the pursuit of social justice. Human Geography. Volume 12: No. 3: 31- 46.

Allen, T. and A. Thomas (eds). 2000.  Poverty and development into the 21st Century. Oxford University Press.    

Brooks, Andrew Richard. The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity. London:Zed Books, 2017. 

Box, L. 2007. Understanding Development(s):The Development of Understanding. Mimeograph. Institute of Social Studies: The Hague. Available from the EADI Development Studies Dossier http://www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml?page=dossier_devstudies (Links to an external site.) 

Carmody, P. 2019. Development Theory and Practive in a Changing World. London: Routledge 

De Vries, P. 2007  Dont Compromise Your Desire for Development! A Lacanian/Deleuzian rethinking of the anti-politics machine Third World Quarterly 28, No. 1, pp 25 43, 

Gasper, Des 2004  The Ethics of Development: From Economism to Human Development, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,  

Kabeer, N. 1994. Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (Links to an external site.). Verso.  

Li, Tania Murray. 2007 The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development and the Practice of Politics. Duke University Press  

Rist, G. 2007 Development as a buzzword Development in Practice, 17, 4-5: 485-491 [A brisk and lively discussion of development as a toxic word] 

Thomas, A. 2000 Development as practice in a liberal capitalist world Journal of International Development12: 773-787 

Sidaway, J. D. 2012. Geographies of development: new maps, new visions? Professional Geographer 64 (1): 49-62. 

Pailey, Robtel Neajai 2019.  De-centring the White Gaze of Development.  Development and Change 51(3): 729745. DOI: 10.1111/dech.12550 

Simon, D. Key Thinkers on Development, 2nd edition (edited volume) (Routledge, London and New York, 2019.  

Simon, D.  2019. Holocaust Escapees and Global Development: Hidden histories (Zed Books,  

Sumner, A. and Tribe, M., (2008) International development studies, theories and methods in research and practice, [chapter 2].London: Sage,  

Sen, A.   1999. Development as freedom.  Oxford University Press: New York.  

Scott, J.  1998.  Seeing like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed.  Yale University Press.  

Toye, J. (1987) Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics. (Links to an external site.) Oxford: Blackwell. 

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme- Annually Human Development Report. (Links to an external site.) New York: Oxford University Press for the UNDP. 

Willis, K. (2011) Theories and Practices of Development (Links to an external site.), London: Routledge  

World Bank (Annually) World Development Report (Links to an external site.). New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank 

See also:  https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/sep/21/first-year-development-student-books (Links to an external site.) 

https://soundcloud.com/oxsid-president/challenging-the-white-gaze-of-development (Links to an external site.) 

Escobar, A. 1995. Encountering Development. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton Press.  

Omar, Sidi. 2012. Rethinking Development from a Postcolonial Perspective. Journal of Conflictology. 3: 1: 42-49.

Sachs, W. (ed). 1992.  The development dictionary. A guide to knowledge as power. Zed book.  (a post development classic)

Peet, Richard and Elaine Hartwick. 2009. Theories of development. Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives. London: The Guilford Press . Chapter 1 . Development. Pp. 1- 19. 

Other sources can be used, but these are the most relevant.