ANTH 320/DEVS 321 PEOPLE AND DEVELOPMENT Fall 2018

I acknowledge that St FX is in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.

Sept. 10, 12: Introduction.
    READ:  Parpart, Jane & Henry Veltmeyer (2004) The development project in theory and practice: A review of its shifting dynamics. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 25(1): 39-59, DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2004.9668959

S. Vincent’s research in Allpachico, Peru: video “Solidarity makes strength, but living here is hell”

Effective reading: (link to annotated bibliography resources: http://stfx.libguides.com/c.php?g=101558&p=658461)
    - what is the purpose of the work?
        - is it an academic article? (i.e. in a refereed journal; has an argument; presents evidence that is analysed using definitions, concepts, theory; takes the form of an essay)
            - is it an academic review article?
        - a report? (i.e. simply presents information, with perhaps a conclusion based on evidence, but is not a theoretically analysed work)
        - a polemical article? (i.e. is an argument, but tends to be light on the evidence and analysis)
        - a popular press article? (i.e. is in a newspaper or magazine; tends to present information in accessible language)
    - related to the above question is to ask why you are reading the article, or why your professor chose it – in the latter case, use cues from the course outline; for example, if it is in a section called “theory,” then you can assume that the work is being used to represent a specific theory
    [since most of what you will read in this course is academic, the rest of the questions assume that]
    - what is the argument? (Look for words like “argument,” “suggest,” “takes the view,” etc.)
    - what is the type of evidence being used?
    - what assumptions are made, or what definitions and theoretical framework are being used or presented?
    - reflect on the argument and analysis to figure out if you are convinced, or what other implications it might have


Some initial background on anthropology and development:
What is anthropology and what are the relevant debates in anthropology?
    - history of applied anthropology and colonialism
        - ethics
    - objective versus engaged anthropology

Parpart and Veltmeyer
    - what kind of article is this?
    - what do Parpart and Veltmeyer argue?
    - what type of evidence do they use?
        - what is political economy?
        - what is capitalism?
        - what is modernization?
        - what is dependency theory?
        - what development trends arose in the 1970s and why?
        - what development trends arose in the 1980s and why?
        - what ideas are encapsulated in the New International Political Economy?
        - what was involved in the Post-development ideas of the 1990s?
        - what do they do in the conclusion?

- trends since 2004: neoextractivism/neodependency
    - post-development/vivir bien

Your reactions to Parpart and Veltmeyer? What did you like? What did you dislike? Why?