Decolonizing Development

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This course offers students an opportunity to examine a range of contemporary global social problems and development approaches by states, NGOs, and multilateral organizations such as the UN and World Bank. Students will explore debates on development, with particular attention to intersecting issues of debt, security, and capitalism/socialism. Course materials from anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical development studies will examine how development institutions work, the production of their power and expertise, and how development can be reimagined in theory and practice.