Dr Gareth Jones S506 and Dr Claire Mercer S418

This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Environment and Development, BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics, BSc in Geography with Economics and BSc in International Relations. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

A critical analysis of the politics of contemporary development processes in the South and the global interests which influence them. The course considers development as both practical pursuit and as a series of discourses and representations.
1. Framing Geo-Politics and Development: introduction to Geopolitics, Security and Development, Critical Geopolitics, Postcolonialism.
2. Geo-Politics and Empires:End of Empire and the 'American Century'; The Cold War; New World (Dis)Order, Rogue States, Wild Zones; The War on Terror.
3. Geo-Politics and Neo-Liberal Development: Living with Perpetual Crisis; Aid; New Development Actors; Good Governance; Civil Society; Microfinance; Global Rights and Neoliberal Multiculturalism.
4. Critical Geo-politics and Representation: Immigration, Drugs, Disease, Gangs, Slum Tours and Celebrity.

10 hours of lectures and 9 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of classes in the ST.

Students are expected to complete four class essays during the year.

No one book covers the syllabus. Key themes will be linked to a main or set of texts, complemented by a more detailed reading list.

Exam (75%, duration: 3 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (25%, 2500 words) in the LT.