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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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unspecified
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Home preparation for classes
- 35 hours per semester
- Contact teaching
- 39 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 40 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 35 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Students will gain an understanding of the social consequences of large-scale "modernization" projects, neoliberalism, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund's structural adjustment programs, as well as the role of non-governmental organizations in development and the problems they face. Students will be able to critically reflect on microcredit institutions and participatory strategies as contemporary hopes for economic development and poverty reduction.
Graduates of this course will gain a basic understanding of development issues and the fundamental theories of development anthropology.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination, Written examination, Home assignment evaluation
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Recommended literature
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Asad, T. (ed.). Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter.. New York: Humanities Press., 1973.
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Bhabha, K.H. Místa kultury. Praha, 2013.
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ESCOBAR, A. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
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Ferguson. The Anti-Politics Machine: ?Development?, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1990.
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Horký, Ondřej. Česká rozvojová spolupráce : diskursy, praktiky, rozpory. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2010. ISBN 978-80-7419-040-7.
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Said, Edward W. Orientalismus : západní koncepce Orientu. Praha: Paseka, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7185-921-5.
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