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Post-Conflict Development and Difference (GEOG20012)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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Post-conflict nation states are entangled with a diverse range of historically contingent and differently understood forms of social, economic and environmental governance. This creates new challenges and very often new conflict. This subject draws on critical geographies of development to examine the significance of difference to post-conflict development processes in the Asia Pacific region, including East Timor, Cambodia and The Philippines. It asks how ideas of social and cultural difference are deployed and experienced by a range of actors, and explores how these ideas are (re)negotiated as a result of social and political change and power. This subject provides students with a variety of theoretical lenses with which to analyze post-conflict development and social and cultural difference in the region. Difference and its relationship to development in post-conflict settings will be investigated through case studies of ethnicity and race, population mobility, material culture, urban development, justice and accountability mechanisms, and livelihood, conservation and resource exploitation conflicts.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students will have achieved the following:
- A broad knowledge of development geography’s major concepts, theoretical perspectives and key debates
- An understanding of the dynamic and complex connections between post-conflict societies, development processes, agents and environments, across a variety of scales
- Research skills to enable the investigation of post-conflict development processes and problems
- Understanding of some country-specific experiences of conflict and post-conflict development
Generic skills
Upon successful completion of this subject, students will have skills in:
- reading, writing and speaking in theoretical terms
- conducting library searches for relevant, critical literatures
- using a case study approach to explore larger processes and problems
Last updated: 2 November 2024