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SPL-3010: Culture and Planning Work Load
10 credits (ECTS) | Type of course
Theoretical. | Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level. | Language of instruction
English | Examination semester
Autumn | Objectives
The course seeks to give students insights into
(i) various perspectives on planning processes, with special emphasis on the relationship between development policy-making and culture; and
(ii) dilemmas and challenges of cultural dimension of planning.
This English-taught elective is open to all students interested in the outlined issues; the international students in Peace Studies, Visual Cultural Studies, International Fisheries Management, Indigenous Studies, etc. | Contents
What does culture add to the tools of planning? How does rational planning processes interrelate with situated meanings, values and local cultural processes? Traditionally, planning involves making decisions about alternative ways of realising certain predetermined goals. Its basic tool is scientific knowledge, which standardises reality. Diverse cultures are seen as a hindrance to efficient policy analysis, yet neither problems nor solutions arise in a vacuum.
The course notes culture as a means of engaging or grounding the abstract precepts of rational planning processes. In development policy-making, where power unevenness characterise donor-beneficiary relationships, a culturally aware or multi-knowledge approach has the capacity to temper the one-size-fit-all interventions that hardly serve the purposes of improving well-being.
The thematic issues for the lectures/seminars include: meanings of culture, markets, planning and development; modes of knowledge production; ethnicity; gender and household dynamics; social capital, NGOs and micro-level inputs to policy-making. Illustrative cases will be drawn from both the South and the North. | Form of teaching
Lectures and seminars. | Exam and assessment
An essay on a given text, with a length of 8-10 pages. Graded on the scale of A-F. | Recommended reading/syllabus
Available on request. | Timetables
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?year=2006&department=ALLE&module=SPL-3010-1 |
Teaching autumn 2006
Forelesning / seminar torsdager kl. 09.15-12.00, Undervisningsrom UB, i uke 38-45.
Responsible teacher:Prof. Tone Bleie | | Eksamen | Utlevering av hjemmeeksamen: 7. desember kl 0930.
Innlevering av hjemmeeksamen: 14. desember kl 1400.
Duration:1 Semester |
Utfyllende informasjon
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Syllabus
Curriculum: 700 pages
Reading list:
General:
Appadurai, A (2004) “The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition” Rao, V. & Walton, M. Culture and Public Action. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp.59-84 (25s)
Beneria, L. (2003) “Markets, Globalization and Gender” in Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered. New York: Routledge. Pp. 63-90 (27s)
Crush, J. (2003) “ Introduction: Imaging Development” in Crush, J. (ed.) Power of Development. New York: Routledge. pp. 1-26 (26s)
Eade, D. (2002) Development and Culture: Selected Essays from Development in Practice. Oxford: Oxfam. pp.204 (204s)
Etounga-Manuelle, D. (2000) “Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment?” in Harrison, L. & Huntington, S. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books. pp.65-77 (12s)
Goetz, A. (1997) Introduction” in Goetz, A. Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development. pp.1-30 (30s)
Healey, P. (1997) Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies. New York:Palgrave. pp.7-28 (21s)
Knowledge Production:
Brenna, B. (2005): “Situated knowledges: From Science Critique to new Knowledge Practices” in Engelstad, E. & Gerrard, S. (eds.) Challenging Situatedness. Gender,Culture and Produciton of Knowledge, Delft: Eburon
Haraway, D. (1988): Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, Feminist Studies (14) 3. (25s)
Holtedahl, L., Gerrard, S., Njeuma, M. & Boutrais, J. (eds.) (1999) The Power of Knowledge: From the Arctic to the Tropics. Paris: Karthala. Selected Chapters: Introduction (pp.15-20) 4s,
21 (pp.399-420) 22s, 20 (pp.387-399) 12s, 25 (pp.477-497) 20s, 13 (pp.255-285) 30s, 5 (pp.127-128) 2s, 3 (pp.85-118) 33s, 8 (pp.167-181) 14s, 19 (pp.375-383) 18s.
Metangmo, L. Tatou (2005): Situated Knowledges and varying Standpoints on Language, “Mother Tongues” and Power in Africa ?” in Engelstad, E. & Gerrard, S. (eds.) Challenging Situatedness. Gender,Culture and Produciton of Knowledge, Delft: Eburon
Oware, P. (2005) “Situated Development: A Policy Option for Ghana?” in Engelstad, E. & Gerrard, S. (eds.) Challenging Situatedness. Gender,Culture and Produciton of Knowledge, Delft: Eburon
Gender, Ethnicity and Planning:
Dey, J. (1981) “Gambian Women: Unequal Partners in rice Development Projects?” Journal of Development of Studies, 3(?), pp.109-122 (13s)
Deere, C. (1985) “Rural Women and State Policy: The Latin America Agrarian Reform Experience”, World Development, 13 (9), pp.1037-53 (16s)
Valestrand H. (1991): Housewifization of peasant women in Costa Rica” in Strlen, K. and Vaa, M. (eds.) Gender and Change in Developing Countries. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. pp.165-194 (29s)
Nypan, A. (1991) “ Revival of female Circumcision: A case of Neo-Traditionalism” in Stølen, K. and Vaa, M. (eds.) Gender and Change in Developing Countries. Oslo Norwegian University Press. pp.165-194 (29s)
Planning and Social Capital:
Fine, B. and Green, F. (2000) “Economics, Social Capital and the Colonization of the Social Sciences” in Schuller, T., Baron, B. and Field, J. (eds.) Social Capital: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.78-93 (15s)
Schuller, T., Baron, B. and Field, J. (2000) “Social Capital: A Review and Critique” in Schuller, T., Baron, B. and Field, J. (eds.) Social Capital: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.1-38(37s)
NGOs:
Biggs, S and Farrington, J. (1990) “NGO, Agricultural Technology and the Rural Poor”, Food Policy, Dec. pp. 479-491 (22s)
Bratton, M. (1989) “The Politics of Government-NGO Relations in Africa”, World Development, vol. 17, No.4, pp. 569-587 (18s)
Fernandez, A. (1987) “NGOs in South Asia: People’s Participation and Partnership”, World Development, Vol. 15, Supplement, pp.39-49 (10s)
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