Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
First part
- Presentation of the historical dimension of the North-South relationship: colonial interventions and the birth of the notion of development.
- Putting concepts of development, underdevelopment and co-operation towards development into perspective, using theoretical principles of development and the relevant political and institutional contexts.
- In conclusion, the following question will be addressed: How can current paradigms of international co-operation be situated and understood?
- Today decolonial narrative in historical perspective. Its uses in international relations and cooperation.
- The socio-anthropology of contemporary interventions in developing countries through international aid and co-operation policies and interventions of development and partnership institutions.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- To know of the evolution of main theories of development, international co-operation and North-South relationships.
- have capacity for historical, comparative and critical analysis of speeches, ideologies and methods used by co-operation institutions and development programmes.
- situate contemporary North-South international relations in a long-term perspective
- grasp key notions of the title beyond their ideological and technical uses
- read cooperation and aid policies (health, education, environment, energy, etc.) within a historical framework, while measuring their profound transformations and singular dynamics.
- understand the market for "travel models" that shape the globalization of public policies, particularly in the South, and take part in it with full knowledge of the facts.
- understand the contemporary "decolonial" debate in terms of its antecedents and the contemporary conditions of its ideological success.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
An interest in the problems of development in the South. The course was originally designed in the context of a DES.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Movie and video (Arte décolonisations)
Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations. A people's history of the Third World. The New Press
https://vimeo.com/676792482
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Direct teaching: presentations, interventions by researchers.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
- MyULiège
Further information:
- First part: a reading portfolio will be distributed at the beginning of the course
- Second part: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, La revanche des contextes, Paris, Karthala,2021
- Third part : Reading textbook portolio (PULg)
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Further information:
- First session: written examination
- Second session: Individual oral exam or on line exam (Covid)
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students will be systematically invited to take part in conferences, seminars etc organised in the department or in relation to University co-operation activities.
Contacts
Lecturer :
Prof. Marc Poncelet
Tel.: 04 366 30 74
Marc.Poncelet@ulg.ac.be
Professor Assistant
Mélissa.Schneider@Uliege.be
Secretary :
Mme Pitrebois
Tél. : 04 366 31 61
PITREBOIS Valérie <valerie.pitrebois@uliege.be>