Dr Sunil Kumar

This course is compulsory on the MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Development). This course is available on the MSc in International Social and Public Policy, MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Education), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (LSE and Fudan), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Migration), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Non-Governmental Organisations) and MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

All Social Policy Courses are ‘Controlled Access’. Please see the link below for further details on the allocation process.

https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/course-choice/controlled-access-courses

This course provides the conceptual tools needed to understand and critically evaluate the key challenges of social development. A wide range of development contexts will be discussed.

Key themes include, among others, the link between social policy and social development; theories of development and post-development; race and development; intersectionality, social policy and social development; policy actors, regulation and decentralisation, civil society, markets and social development; informality, conflict and social development.  Some of these themes are treated as cross-cutting issues where appropriate.

All teaching will be in accordance with the LSE Academic Code (https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/lse-academic-code) which specifies a "minimum of two hours taught contact time per week when the course is running in the Autumn Term (AT) and/or Winter Term (WT)". Social Policy courses are predominantly taught through a combination of in-person Lectures and In person classes/seminars. Further information will be provided by the Course Convenor in the first lecture of the course.

This course is taught in AT.

Students will be required to submit, as their formative, a detailed 750-word outline of their summative essay, later in the Michaelmas Term.  Feedback will be provided but no grade given because the aim is that the formative will be developed into the summative essay.

• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2014) Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide. London and New York: Routledge.
• Mignolo, W. D. and Walsh, C. E. (2018) On De-Coloniality: Concepts, Analytics and Praxis.  Durham: Duke University Press.
• Barrientos, A. and D. Hulme, eds. (2008) Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest: Concepts, Policies and Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Green, D. (2008) From Poverty To Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change The World. Oxford: Oxfam International.
• Willis, K. (2005) Theories and Practices of Development. London: Routledge.
• Dale, R (2004) Development Planning: Concepts and Tools for Planners, Managers and Facilitators, London: Zed Books.
• Hickey, S. and Mohan, G. (2004) Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation? Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development. London: Zed Books.
• Thin, N. (2002) Social Progress and Sustainable Development. London: ITDG.
• Midgley, J. (1995) Social Development: The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare. London: Sage.

Essay (100%, 3500 words) in the WT.

A 3,500 words essay where a student formulates and answers their own question relating to social policy and development.