GEOG401 Geography of Development

Major Topics

• Introduction: Development & geographies of development

• Measures of development

• Development theories and approaches

  • the 1950s to 1970s
    • Socialist development
    • Development state
    • Welfare state
  • Since the 1980s
    • Neoliberalism
  • Since the 1990s
    • Alternative development, post-development, participatory development
      
    • Revival of develoment state (China)
      
      

• Population and development

• Globalization and development

• Gender and development

• Culture, institutions and development

• Resources, environment, and sustainable development

• Global Inequality and Inequality in the U.S.