ANTH 320/DEVS 321 PEOPLE AND DEVELOPMENT Fall 2017

Oct. 11-18    The state and development
    READ: Vincent, S. (2014) Why beautify the plaza? Reproducing community in decentralized neoliberal Peru. Journal of agrarian change, 14(4): 522-540.

    Garmany, Jeff (2017) Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance. Environment and Planning A, 49(2): 372-388.

Midterm test (Oct. 16):                         20%

Assignment #3 on Indigeneity and Development is due October 11.

Video: Solidarity creates strength, but living here is hell

Vincent:
- how was Allpachico constituted through the state-mandated designation of the comunidad campesina?
- how does the vernacular community relate to the legally recognized comunidad campesina of Allpachico?
- how have the livelihood strategies of  Allpachico changed over the last century, with different balances of farming, wage income, informal sector income, remittances from migrants and state support?
- what is Peru’s current national economy based on?
    - what does natural resource extraction need? What does it not need?
    - how does decentralized government spending relate to this?
    - how does decentralized government spending marginalize the comunidad campesina structure in favour of local municipal government?
- why does it make sense that  Allpachiqueños want to beautify the plaza?


October 18:
Return Assignment #3

Discuss essay proposals, due Oct. 30

Garmany
- review: how do CCTs fit into the history of development strategies over time?
    [from Parpart and Veltmeyer:
        - 1950s: Big state/Cold War/industrialization-modernization
        - 1970s: liberal reforms
        - 1980s: neoliberalism (supposed “small state” involving cutbacks in social spending and promotion of free markets)
        - responses to social damage of neoliberalism: political economy, post-development, alternative development]
- the current era with new state social spending: neo-extractivism, CCTs, minimum basic incomes (e.g. “Give a man a fish” by Ferguson), resuscitates the role of the state
- do Garmany and Vincent think these new steps are a move in the right direction?
- Garmany: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0308518X16672453
    - what is his argument?
    - what is the context in which he is writing?
    - what theoretical concepts does he use?
    - how does he structure the paper to support his argument?
    - how does he use the theoretical concepts to analyse the evidence?
- do you think the new turn to increased social spending is a move in the right direction?

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