This course builds on the theoretical understandings of development that students developed in SY27J – The Sociology of Development. It surveys a number of important issues involved in the process of globalization and the ways in which they impact on the process of development. After completing this course, students will be able to:
- describe the main features of the development project and the globalization project, and explain how the former evolved into the latter.
- analyze how these general trends in the world economy affect particular social issues such as employment, poverty, food security, and environmental degradation.
- explain why the process of globalization inevitably produces counter-movements against it, and describe the most important of these movements
- evaluate contemporary issues and policy questions relating to development and globalization, based on an in-depth understanding of the process of globalization, as specified above.
- Lecturer: John Talbot