PLCP 4412

The Idea of Development

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Course Description

Pre-Requisite(s): prior course in PLCP

Offers a historical survey of how the idea of development that crystallized during the European enlightenment became "hegemonic" after WWII and during the process of de-colonization. Also reflects on how development came to express the ideological struggles of the cold war and whether it acquired a "new life" in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and the advent of "globalization."


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