DRAFT 29 January 2013

POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, SPRING 2013

Lecturer: MSO Professor Amanda Hammar Tuesdays and Thursdays, 13.15 15.00 (except where otherwise indicated)
DATE OF SESSION Session 1 Tues 5 Feb 2 hrs SESSION TITLE/THEME READINGS

INTRODUCTION PART I ~ Introductions ~ Overview of course structure and expectations ~ Introducing Country Project Portfolios PART II What is Politics? What is Development? What is Change? What and/or who are the objects or subjects of these complex processes? How do we think about and study these processes?

KEY READINGS Leftwich, Adrian, 2004 (1984). Thinking Politically. On the Politics of Politics, in Adrian Leftwich (ed), What is Politics? The Activity and its Study, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 1-22 (22 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Ferguson, James, 2004. Power Topographies in David Nugent and Joan Vincent (eds), A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, Malden, Oxford and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 383-399 (17 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/doi/10.1002/978047069368 1.ch24/pdf Cornwall, Andrea, 2007. Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse, Development in Practice, Vol. 17, Nos. 4-5, pp. 471-484 (14 pages) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09614520701469302 SUB-TOTAL: 53 pages FURTHER READING Mouffe, Chantal, 2005. On the Political. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 834 (29 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Edelmann, Marc and Angelique Haugerud, 2007 (2004), Development, in David Nugent and Joan Vincent (eds), A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics , Malden, Oxford and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 86-106 (21 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/doi/10.1002/978047069368 1.ch6/pdf SUB-TOTAL: 50 pages

Session 2 Thurs 7 Feb 2 hrs

PERSPECTIVES ON CHANGING POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA How do differently situated actors think about and address: Politics, Development and ChangeIN AFRICA? What has been changing, why, how, and with what consequences for whom? Depends what we are trying to understand and explain.

KEY READINGS Olukoshi, Adebayo, 2005. Changing Patterns of Politics in Africa, in Atilio A. Boron and Gladys Lechini (eds), Politics and Social Movement in an Hegemonic World: Lessons from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Consejo Latinamreicano de Cienias Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 177-201 (25 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Ferguson, James, 2006. Introduction: Global Shadows: Africa and the World, in James Ferguson, Global Shadows Africa in the Neo-Liberal World Order, Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 1-23 (23 pages) + bibliography: pp.229247 (18 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Cooper, Frederick, 2002. Africa Since 1940. The Past of the Present, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [Interlude: rhythms of change in the post-war world pp. 85-90, and Chapter 8: Africa at the centurys turn: South Africa, Rwanda, and beyond, pp. 191-204 (20 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF The Economist, 2011. Africa Rising editorial, 3-9 Dec 2011, p. 13; and Briefing: Africas hopeful economies, pp. 68-70 (4 pages). FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF SUB-TOTAL:72 pages (+18) FURTHER READING Cooper, Frederick, 2002. Development and Disappointment: social and economic change in an unequal world, 1945-2000, in Frederick Cooper, Africa Since 1940. The Past of the Present, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-132 (42 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Kelsall, Tim, 2008. Going with the Grain in African Development?, Development Policy Review, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 627-655 (29 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2008.00427.x/pdf SUB-TOTAL:71 pages

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Session 3 Tues 12 Feb 2 hrs PARTIES, POLITICS, DEMOCRACY KEY READINGS Rakner, Lise and Nicholas van de Walle, 2009. Opposition Weakness in Africa, Journal of Democracy, Volume 20, Number 3, July 2009, pp. 108-121 (15 pages) FIND IN REX LeBas, Adrienne, 2011. Opposition Parties and Democratization in Africa, in Adrienne Le Bas,From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa, Oxford Scholarship Online, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546862.0 01.0001/acprof-9780199546862-chapter-1 (18 pages) Makara, Sabiti, Lise Rakner and Lars Svsand, 2009. Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda, International Political Science Review 30, pp. 185-204 (20 pages) FIND IN REX Sumich, Jason, 2011. The Party and the State: Frelimo and Social Stratification in Post-Socialist Mozambique, Development and Change, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 679698 (20 pages) FIND IN REX SUB-TOTAL: 73 pages FURTHER READING Hanlon, Joseph and Marcelo Mosse, 2010. Mozambiques Elite Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2010/105, Helsinki (21 pages) http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2010/en_GB/wp2010105/ Kelsall, Tim and David Booth et al, 2010. Developmental Patrimonialism? Questioning the orthodoxy on political governance and economic progress in Africa, Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) Working Paper No. 9, London: ODI (33 pages) http://www.institutions-africa.org/filestream/20110523-appp-working-paper-9developmental-patrimonialism-by-kelsall-booth-july-2010 Kelsall, Tim, 2011. Developmental Patrimonialism? Rethinking business and politics in Africa, Policy Brief 02, Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) (4 pages) http://research.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/PDF/Outputs/APPP/APPP-policy-brief-2.pdf SUB-TOTAL: 58 pages Session 4 Thurs 14 Feb 2 hrs PERSPECTIVES ON REAL STATES IN AFRICA FEATURE: CAS Africa Seminar with DR. TOBIAS HAGMANN, Roskilde University, from 15-17 KEY READINGS Hagmann, Tobias, and Didier Pclard, 2010. Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa, Development and Change, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 539-562 (24 pages) FIND IN REX Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, 2009. State Bureaucracy and Governance in Francophone West Africa: An Empirical Diagnosis and Historical Perspective, in Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (eds), The Governance of Everyday Life in Africa. Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services, Leiden and Boston:Brill, pp. 39-71 (33 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Bierschenk, Thomas, 2010. States at Work in West Africa: Sedimentation, Fragmentation and Normative Double-Binds, Working Papers Series, No. 113, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Guttenberg Universitat, Mainz pp. 1-20 (20 pages) http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/AP113.pdf SUB-TOTAL: 77 pages FURTHER READINGS To be added

Session 5 Tues 19 Feb 2 hrs

NATIONAL LIBERATION AND ENDURING NATIONALISM: FOCUS ON ZIMBABWE

KEY READINGS Ndhlovu-Gatsheni, Sableo J., 2009. Africa for Africans or Africa for "Natives" Only? "New Nationalism" and Nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 61-78 (19 pages) http://www.jstor.org.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/stable/pdfplus/40175270.pdf?accept TC=true Raftopoulos, Brian, 2003. The State in Crisis: Authoritarian Nationalism, Selective Citizenship and Distortions of Democracy in Zimbabwe, in Amanda Hammar, Brian Raftopoulos and Stig Jensen (eds), Zimbabwes Unfinished Business. Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis, Harare: Weaver Press, pp. 217-241 ( 25 pages)

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FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Saunders, Richard, 2011. Zimbabwe: liberation nationalism - old and bornagain, Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 38, No. 127, pp. 123134 (13 pages) FIND IN REX Raftopoulos, Brian, 2010. The Global Political Agreement as a 'Passive Revolution': Notes on Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 99, No. 411, pp. 705 718 (14 pages) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00358533.2010.530414 SUB-TOTAL: 71 pages FURTHER READING Ranger, Terence, 2003. Introduction, in Terence Ranger (ed), The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights, Volume Two: Nationalism, Democracy and Human Rights, Harare, University of Zimbabwe Press, pp. 1-37 (37 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF LeBas, Adrienne, 2011. Polarization and Party-Building in Zimbabwe, in Adrienne LeBas, From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa, Oxford Scholarship Online, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546862.0 01.0001/acprof-9780199546862-chapter-10 (36 pages) SUB-TOTAL: 77 pages Session 6 Thurs 21 Feb 2 hrs + CAS African Seminar URBAN POLITCS, SERVICES, SELECTIVE CITIZENSHIP Guest lecturer: JACOB RASMUSSEN KEY READINGS Pieterse, Edgar, 2005. At the limits of possibility: working notes on a relational model of Urban politics, in A. Simone and A. Abouhani (eds.), Urban Africa. Changing contours of survival in the city. Codesria Books, Dakar, pp. 138-173 (35 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Lindell, Ilda, 2008. The multiple sites of Urban governance. Insights from an African City, Urban Studies vol. 45, no. 9. pp. 1879-1898 (19 pages) FIND IN REX Beall, Jo, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell , 2000. Victims, Villains and Fixers: The Urban Environment and Johannesburg's Poor, Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 833-855 (23 pages) http://www.tandfonline.com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/doi/pdf/10.1080/713683609 SUB-TOTAL: 67 pages FURTHER READING Blundo, Giorgio and Pierre-Yves Le Meur, 2009. Introduction: An anthropology of everyday governance: collective service delivery and subject-making, in. In Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (eds), The Governance of Daily Life in Africa. Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services, Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 1-32 (31 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Brown, Allison, and Annali Kristiansen, 2009, Urban policies and the right to the city, UN Habitat, pp. 7-17 (11 pages) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001780/178090e.pdf Konings, Piet, 2011. Solving transportation problems in African cities during neoliberal reforms: Innovative responses by the youth in Douala, Cameroon, in Piet Konings, The Politics of Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: State and Civil Society in Cameroon, Leiden: Langaa and African Studies Centre, pp, 233-251 (19 pages) + bibliography pp 285-314 (30 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF SUB-TOTAL: 61 (+30) pages Session 7 Tues 26 Feb 2 hrs IDEAS ABOUT PROGRESS, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT KEY READINGS Li, Tania Murray, 2007. The Will to Improve. Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics, Durham and London: Duke University Press, Introduction pp. 1-30 + Notes, pp. 285-293 (total 39 pages). FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Yarrow, Thomas, 2011. Selections from Development beyond Politics. Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan [Preface, pp. x-xv:; Introduction: Hope in Development, pp. 1-15] (21 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF

Will address the particularities and challenges of African cities and the nature of contemporary urban politics especially around questions of service provision and everyday governance. Relevant actors include the central state, municipality, International organisations,citizens. Case examples from Nairobi.

BRIEF MID-TERM EVALUATIN IN CLASS

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Roe, Emery M., 1995. Except-Africa: Postscript to a Special Section on Development Narratives, World Development, Vol. 23, No.6, pp. 1065-1069 (5 pages) FIND IN REX Cowen, Michael and Robert Shenton, 1995. The Invention of Development, in Jonathan Crush, Power of Development, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 27-43 (17 pages) + bibliography pp. 278-311 (35 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF (tbc) SUB-TOTAL: 77 (+35) pages FURTHER READING Nyerere, Julius, 1967. The Arusha Declaration. Accessed at: http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nyerere/1967/arusha 4 January 2011 (18 pages) Mbeki, Thabo, 1998. The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World, Speech at the United Nations, 9 April 1998. Accessed at: http://unu.edu.unupress/mbeki.html 4 January 2011 (10 pages) Esteva, Gustavo, 1992. Development, in Wolfgfang Sachs (ed), The Development Dictionary. A Guide to Knowledge as Power, London and New Jersey: Zed Books, pp. 6-25 (20 pages). SUB-TOTAL: 48 pages Session 8 Thurs 28 Feb 2 hrs THE LOCAL STATE, LOCAL POLITICS, LOCAL DEVELOPMENT KEY READINGS Lund, Christian, 2006. Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa, Development and Change, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 685-705 (21 pages) FIND IN REX Blundo, Giorgio, 2006. Dealing with the Local State: The Informal Privatization of Street-Level Bureaucracies in Senegal, Development and Change, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 799-819 (21 pages) FIND IN REX Hammar, Amanda, 2001. The Day of Burning: Eviction and Reinvention in the Margins of Northwest Zimbabwe, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 550-574 (25 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/doi/10.1111/14710366.00018/pdf SUB-TOTAL: 67 pages FURTHER READING Crook, Richard C., 2003. Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction in Africa: The Politics of Local-Central Relations, Public Administration and Development, Vol. 23, pp. 7788 (12 pages) FIND IN REX Boone, Catherine, 1998, State Building in the African Countryside: Structure and Politics at the Grassroots, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 1-31 (31 pages) http://web.ebscohost.com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?si d=bb2d8d5b-201f-45e2-ba0d4315e796aeab%40sessionmgr110&vid=4&hid=128 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.261/pdf Kelsall, Tim, 2000. Governance, Local Politics and Districtization in Tanzania: The 1998 Arumeru Tax Revolt, African Affairs, Vol. 99, pp. 533-551 (19 pages) FIND IN REX SUB-TOTAL: 62 pages Session 9 Tues 5 March 2 hrs NGOS, DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVISM: THE POLITCS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DOING GOOD KEY READINGS Bornstein, Erica, 2001. Child Sponsorship, Evangelism, and Belonging in the Work of World Vision Zimbabwe, American Ethnologist, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 595622 (28 pages) FIND IN REX Yarrow, Thomas, 2011. Selections from Development beyond Politics. Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan [The Politics of Charity, pp. 19-44; Conclusion: What Is To be Done?, pp. 161-169; Postscript: Acting and Understanding, pp. 170-172; Notes, pp. 173-178; References, pp. 182-192] (48 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Robins, Steven and Bettina von Lieres, 2004. AIDS Activism and Globalisation from Below: Occupying New Spaces of Citizenship in Post-apartheid South Africa, IDS Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 84-90 (7 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2004.tb00125.x/pdf

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Fisher, William F., 1997. Doing good? The politics and anti-politics of NGO practices, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 26, pp. 439-464 (26 pages) FIND IN REX SUB-TOTAL: 109 pages FURTHER READING Manji, Firoz, and Carl OCoill, 2002. The Missionary position: NGOs and development in Africa, International Affairs, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 567-583 (17 pages) FIND IN REX Leal, Pablo Alejandro, 2007. Participation: the ascendancy of a buzzword in the neo-liberal era, Development in Practice, Vol. 17, Nos. 4-5, pp. 539-548 (10 pages) FIND IN REX Green, Maia, 2010. Making Development Agents: Participation as Boundary Object in International Development, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 1240-1263 (24 pages) FIND IN REX SUB-TOTAL: 51 pages

Session 10 Thurs 7 March 2- 3 hrs

PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER, POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Possible showing of film on Mozambiques Frelimo women excombatants: Guerrilla Grannies (80 mins)

Discussion with invited guest about gender and development approaches in Burkina Faso

KEY READINGS Moser, Caroline, 1989. Gender Planning in the Third World: Meeting Practical and Strategic Gender Needs, World Development, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 17991825 (27 pages) FIND IN REX Chant, Sylvia, 2000. From Woman-Blind to Man-kind. Should men have more space in gender and development? IDS Bulletin Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 7-17 (11 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.17595436.2000.mp31002002.x/pdf Cornwall, Andrea, 2000. Cornwall, Andrea. Missing Men? Reflections on Men, Masculinities and Gender in GAD, IDS Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 18-27 (10 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.17595436.2000.mp31002003.x/pdf Lewis, Desiree, 2009. Discursive Challenges for African Feminism, in Akosoua Adomako Ampofu and Signe Arnfred (eds), African Feminist Politics of Knowledge. Tensions, Challenges, Possibilities, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, pp. 205-221 (16 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Tripp, Aili Mari, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa, 2009. The Challenge of New Womens Movements, in Aili Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa, African Womens Movements. Changing Political Landscapes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 81-107 (27 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF SUB-TOTAL: 91 pages FURTHER READING Parpart, Jane L., 1995. Post-Modernism, Gender and Development, in Jonathan Crush (ed), Power of Development, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 253265, (see Bibliography under Escobar, 1995, above) (13 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF Aubrey, Lisa, 2001. Gender, Development and Democratization in Africa, Journal of African and Asian Studies (JAAS), Vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 87-111 (25 pages) FIND IN REX SUB-TOTAL: 38 pages

Session 11 Tues 12 March 2 hrs

STUDYING DEVELOPMENT, DOING DEVELOPMENT Guest lecturer: Professor THOMAS BIERSCHENK, Johannes GutenbergUniversitt, Mainz

KEY READINGS Bierschenk, Thomas, 2008. Anthropology and Development. An historicizing and localizing approach. Working Paper 87a, Institut fr Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt, Mainz (23 pages) http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/AP87.pdf Mosse, David, 2004. Is Good Policy Unimplementable? Reflections on the Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice, Development and Change, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 639671 (35 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0012-155X.2004.00374.x/pdf Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, 2005. The Missing Link, Courrier de la Plante (dition anglaise), Vol. 74, pp. 36-40 (5 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF

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SUB-TOTAL:63 pages FURTHER READING Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, 2005. Anthropology and Development. Understanding contemporary social change. London, Zed. Chapter 13 Conclusion: The dialogue between social scientists and developers, pp. 198-216 (18 pages) FIND HARD COPY in MASTER FILE on TEACHING SHELF (tbc) Schuurman, Frans J., 2000. Paradigm lost, paradigms regained? Development studies in the twenty-first century, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 720 (14 pages) FIND IN REX Sylvester, Christine, 1999. Development Stduies ad postcolonial studies: disparate tails of the Third World, Third World Quarterly, Vo. 20, No. 4, pp. 703-721 (19 pages) FIND IN REX SUB-TOTAL:32 pages + MATERIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WORKSHOP (as handouts) Session 12 Thurs 14 March **3.5 hrs Session 13 Tues 19 March 2 hrs Session 14 Tues 9, Weds 10, Thurs 11 April 10-12 DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WORKSHOP: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES

GROUP PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Based on country portfolios

CONCLUDING SESSION ~ Review and Evaluation ~ Outline of Opponent Phase and Exam METHODOLOGY LAB The fourteenth class for this course is allocated to one of four sessions in the period 9-11 April as part of a special workshop-style Methodology Lab for CAS Masters students. A programme for these sessions will be circulated separately.

Page count: KEY READINGS: approx 820 pages + FURTHER READING: approx 636 pages
OVERALL TOTAL: 1456 pages

OTHER IMORTANT DATES TO NOTE:

PDC FIRST SUPERVISION SESSIONS Set times in the period 21-27 March METHODOLOGY LAB 9-11 April PDC ESSAY DEADLINE Monday 29 April PDC OPPONENT SESSIONS** During the period 6- 8 May, and possibly 13-14 May PDC SECOND SUPERVISION SESSIONS Set times in the period 15-17 May

DRAFT 29 January 2013 PDC DEADLINE FOR SYLLABUS SUBMISSION 31 May PDC DEADLINE FOR EXAM: Mid-June

** We are aware that there will be some overlap with the New Wars optional course, being run on 6 and 7 May, 13,14, and 16 May, and 21, 22, 23, 27, 28 and 29 May. We will ensure that for those attending that course, your Opponent Sessions will be held at suitable times to avoid or minimize any time-clashes.