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Post-Conflict Development and Difference (GEOG20012)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 1
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: 27 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Completion of 50 points at Level 1 subjects.
This subject is a level 2 subject designed for students who have experience in writing essays of up to 1,000 words at University level. It is recommended that students have successfully completed at least 25 points of level 1 or level 2 subjects that include essay based assessment.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- A review essay of 1500 words due in week 5 (35%)
- Tutorial presentations and participation equivalent to 500 words due between weeks 2 and 11 (15%)
- Weekly reflections on lectures (dot points for 10 tutorials) due between weeks 2 and 12 (10%)
- A take home exam of 2000 words due in the examination period (40%)
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Lisa Palmer Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A 2 hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Environmental Geography Major Geography - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 27 April 2024