Judit Bodnár, Central European University, Department of History/Sociology, Budapest

Kaveh Ehsani, Jomhur Social Research Association and Goft-o-Gu Quarterly, Teheran and Chicago

3. Development, post-development, and their critics

a) The Regimes of Development, Globalization, and Post-Washington Consensus: Market versus Plan, Market versus State as New Paradigm?

• Escobar, Arturo. 1996. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton. Chapters 1-2, pages 3-55.

• Stiglitz, Joseph. 1999. "Whither Reform? Ten years of the Transition" in Annual World Bank Conference on Economic Development, B. Pleskovic and J.E. Stiglitz (eds.), Washington: World Bank, 2000, pp. 27-56. Also Chapter 4 in The Rebel Within, Ha-Joon Chang (ed.), London: Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2001, pp. 127-171. Summary in Transition Economics, 3(12), June 1999. (Originally presented on April 30, 1999.)

Recommended:

• Stiglitz, Joseph. 1998. ‘Redefining the Role of the State’ Chapter 3 in The Rebel Within, Ha-Joon Chang (ed.), London: Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2001, pp. 94-126. (Originally presented on the Tenth Anniversary of MITI Research Institute Tokyo, Japan, March 17, 1998.)

• Fine, Ben et al. Development Policy in the 21st Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus. London: Routledge. Chapter 1, pages 1-27, Ben Fine: "Neither the Washington nor the Post-Washington Consensus"

b) Defining Poverty as a ‘Problem’

• Henwood, Doug: After the new economy, chapter 3, pp.79-144, notes pp.235-38

• Nandy, Ashis. 2004. "The Beautiful, Expanding Future of Poverty" Economic and Political Weekly 39:1, January 3-9, Pp. 94-99

Recommended:

• World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. The World Bank. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 

c) The Power Relationship at the Core of Development Discourse and Practice: Questioning the Economy and Technopolitics

• Mitchell, Tim. 2002. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Technopolitics and Modernity. Berkeley, University of California Press. Chapters 7-9 (pages 209-271, notes pp. 350-71)

Vinh-Kim Nguyen, McGill University, Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine, Montreal

4. Transnational biopolitics, subjectivity, development and the humanitarian industry

a) The social impact and local politics of transnational networks of NGOs, discourses, and Bretton Woods institutions: Politics, bodies, and desire

• Appadurai A. 2002. "Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics". Public Culture 14(1):21-47.

• Nguyen, V-K. forthcoming. "Antiretroviral globalism, biopolitics, and therapeutic citizenship". In A Ong and S Collier, Editors, Global Assemblages, governmentality, technology, ethics. London: Blackwell.

b) Their mode of operation: Circulation, subjectification, publics

• Povinelli E. "Notes on gridlock: genealogy, intimacy, sexuality." Public Culture 14(1):215-238.

• Warner M. 2002. "Publics and counterpublics." Public Culture 14(1):49-90

c) Theorizing the networks: Biopower, multitude, sovereignty

• Mbembe A. 2000. "At the edge of the world: boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa." Public Culture 12(1):259-284.

• Mbembe A. 2003. "Necropolitics." Public Culture 15(1):11-40.

Gerhard Anders, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich

5. Global Governance and Development – Regimes of Standards and Numbers

General:

• Anghie, Antony (2000) The Present and Time Past: Globalization, International Financial Institutions and the Third World. International Law and Politics, vol. 32: 243-290.

• Mosse, David (2005) Introduction. In: Lewis, David/Mosse, David (eds.) Anthropology Upstream: Global Governance and the Ethnography of International Aid. London: Pluto Press. In print.

Case Studies:

• Anders, Gerhard (2005) Good Governance as Technology – Toward an Ethnography of the Bretton Woods Institutions. In: Lewis, David/Mosse, David (eds.) Anthropology Upstream: Global Governance and the Ethnography of International Aid. London: Pluto Press. In print.

• Dunn, Elizabeth C. (2005) Standards and Person-Making in East-Central Europe. In: Ong, Aiwha/Collier, Stephen J. (eds.) Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Oxford: Blackwells: 173-193.

• Harper, Richard (2000) The Social Organization of the IMF’s Work: An Examination of International Auditing. In: Strathern, Marilyn (ed.) Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. London/New York: Routledge.

Recommended:

• Cahn, Jonathan (1993) Challenging the New Imperial Authority: The World Bank and the Democratisation of Development. Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 6: 159-194.

• Likosky, Michael (2002) Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities. London and Edinburgh: Butterworths and LexisNexis.

Comprehensive reader on various aspects of the transnationalisation of law. Recommended for browsing and cross-reading.

• Rose, Nikolas (1999) Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Excellent book on neo-liberal governmentality and the use of technologies such as budgeting, auditing and econometrics in contemporary government. Especially the chapter on numbers is highly recommended.

• Sassen, Saskia (1996) Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press.

Useful introductory reading on the consequences of recent processes of globalization on global governance.

• Stiglitz, Joseph (2002) Globalization and its Discontents. New York: WW Norton & Company.

Highly recommended critical review of World Bank, IMF and WTO by former World Bank economist who was forced to leave the World Bank because of his critical attitude.

• See also the websites of the World Bank and the IMF for general information on legal mandates, policies and organizational structure: www.worldbank.org and www.imf.org 

Patrick Bond, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

6. Global politics, economics and the environment

a) Global economic and political turbulence

Bond, Patrick. 2004. "Financial Havoc. Theoretical and Empirical Considerations". Submitted to Studies in Political Economy.

Harvey, David. 2003. The New Imperialism. Oxford. "Accumulation by Dispossession" pp. 137-182. (already required reading for Judit Bodnar - Module 2.)

b) The commodification of the environment and resistance

Sachs, Wolfgang (editor). 2002. ‘The Joburg-Memo’. Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Berlin.

c) Politics and economics in Africa

African Union. 2001. "The New Partnership for Africa’s Development" (NEPAD), Abuja.

Ivan Krastev, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia

7. Transnationalization of corruption and the globalization of (anti)corruption discourse and reconfigured state sovereignty

• Tanzi, Vito. 1988. Corruption around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope and Cures. Washington, D.C.: IMF.

• Scott, James. 1972. Comparative Political Corruption. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. (Chapter 1)

• Kimberly, Ann Eliot (ed.). 1997. Corruption and the Global Economy. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics. (Comments of Vito Tanzi, pp.163-168).

• Olivier de Sardan, J.P.. 1999. "The Moral Economy of Corruption in Africa" The Journal of Modern African Studies, 37: 25-52.

• Krastev, Ivan. 2004. Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on Politics of Anti-corruption. Budapest: CEU Press:

- A) The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection

- Figure 8.1
- Figure 8.2
- Figure 8.3
- Figure 8.4
- Figure 8.5
- Figure Captions

- B) Corruption, Anti-Corruption Sentiments and the Rule of Law

- C) When ‘Should’ Does Not Imply ‘Can’. The Making of the Washington Consensus on Corruption

Norma Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Political Science

• Aidi, Hisham. 2003. "Let Us Be Moors: Islam, Race and ‘Connected Histories’", Middle East Report MER 229. Winter 2003.

• MacLeod, Arlene Elowe. 1992. "Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo" Signs, Vol. 17, No.3 (Spring 1992): 533-557.

• Najmabadi, Afsaneh. 2000. "(Un)Veiling Feminism" Social Text 64, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall 2000).

• Göle , Nilüfer. 2002. "Islam in Public: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries" Public Culture (14)1: 173-190.

• Moruzzi, Norma Claire. 1994. "A Problem with Headscarves: Contemporary Complexities of Political and Social Identity" Political Theory, Vol. 22, No. 4 (November 1994), 653-672.

• Galeotti, Anna Elisabetta. 1994. "A Problem with Theory: A Rejoinder to Moruzzi" Political Theory, Vol. 22, No. 4 (November 1994), 673-677.

• Moruzzi, Norma Claire. 1994. "A Response to Galeotti" Political Theory, Vol. 22, No. 4 (November 1994), 678-679.

• Silverstein, Paul A. 2000. "Sporting Faith. Islam, Soccer, and the French Nation-State" Social Text 65, Vol. 18, No. 4, Winter 2000.

• Massad, Joseph. 2002. "Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World" Public Culture 14(2): 361-385.

Other possible readings:

• Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Recommended reading)

Recommended:

• Bauman, Zygmunt. Postmodern Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, Chapter 6: "Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral."

Empirical

• Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. (Read Chapter 1 and 2; the rest recommended).

Theoretical

• Calhoun, Craig. "Indirect Relationships and Imagined Communities: Large-Scale Social Integration and the Transformation of Everyday Life." In Social Theory for a Changing Society, edited by James S. Coleman and Pierre Bourdieu, 95-121. Boulder: Westview, 1991.