Family, Community and Development (DEVT90046)

This subject examines the way that family and community are understood and approached in Development Studies theory and practice. As the primary nexus of social, political and economic reproduction, the study of family and kinship is a particularly important context from which to explore the relationship between individual and community development; the policies and strategies of major agencies; and more broadly the relationship between global, transnational and local networks of responsibility and care. Understanding the global through the prism of the familiar, local and communal we examine critical ‘values’ and mores of societies such as ‘honour’ and ‘shame’, dowry, marriage, women and the place of children.