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Study programmes 2009-2010Last update : 28/06/2010
SOCI1240-2  Sociology of Interventions in Developing Countries
Duration :  30h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
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Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en développement territorial et géomatique, 1st yearPremier quadrimestre3
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Master in Psychology, Professional Focus in Cognitive and Behavioural Neurosciences, 1st yearToute l'année3
Holder(s) :  Marc Poncelet
Language :  Langue française
Course 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?
Second part

  • The socio-anthropology of contemporary interventions in developing countries through international aid and co-operation policies and interventions of development and partnership institutions. Analysis of cases and examples drawn principally from African experiences.
Course objective :  
  • Knowledge of the evolution of main theories of development, international co-operation and North-South relationships.
  • Acquisition of a capacity for historical, comparative and critical analysis of speeches, ideologies and methods used by co-operation institutions and development programmes.
Prerequisites :  An interest in the problems of development in the South. The course was originally designed in the context of a DES.
Workshops :  None
Organization :  Direct teaching: presentations, interventions by researchers.
Written notes :  
  • First and second parts - a portfolio of reading will be distributed at the start of the course
  • Third part - Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Anthropologie et développement.
    Karthala Editions, Paris, 2003.
  • Portfolio 2: case studies
Assessment :  
  • First session: individual written exam, open questions.
  • Second session: Individual oral exam.
Contacts :  Lecturer :
Prof. Marc Poncelet
Tel.: 04 366 30 74
Marc.Poncelet@ulg.ac.be

Researcher :
Dr. Géraldine André
Tel.: 04 366 30 79
Geraldine.andre@ulg.ac.be

Secretary :
Marina Salerno
Tel.: 04 366 31 61
Marina.Salerno@ulg.ac.be
Remarks :  Students will be systematically invited to take part in conferences, seminars etc organised in the department or in relation to University co-operation activities: conferences and seminars of Cecodel-Ulg, Métis courses and development education activities of NGOs and specialised organisations, programmes of Commission Universitaire au Développement (CUD), the Groupes de Recherche en Appui à la Politique Federale de Cooperation (GRAP-CUD)


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