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 | Message from Lisa | | Tu 04-13-04 10:40:12 PM |
| | | Welcome to the class website for "Population, Equity, and Environmental Change." TWO IMPORTANT CHANGES: Thursday, April 15 read chapters 3, 5, 6 of Population, Economic Development and the Environment. For Tuesday April 20, please substitute the reading assigned for Thursday, April 22. On Thursday, we will meet in research groups during class time. |
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 | Tuesday's Reading Questions | | M 04-19-04 02:03:48 PM |
| | | Questions for Tuesday, April 20
AS ANNOUNCED: today we will read ch 2, 4, 10 from Liberation Ecologies.
Thursday, you will use class time to meet with your groups: attendance strongly urged.
--Escobar characterizes sustainability and biodiversity as evidence of an even deeper cultural domination of human life by capital. How so?
--How does the "postmodern" form of "capitalization of nature" differ from the "modern" (or industrial capitalist" relation to nature?
--If the "postmodern capitalization" of nature inclines corporations and states to act to preserve natural resources, can we see this transformation of capital as a good thing?
--What burden does Escobar place on Third World Communities?
--Bebbington identifies a conflict between "liberation ecologies" as they are imagined in theory and as they are realized in popular practice: what lies at the core of this dispute?
--What does Bebbington consider to be most important for an "alternative" development strategy to achieve?
--How does his definition of "alternative" development differ from that of Escobar?
--According to Rangan, how is the Chipko movement misunderstood when it is claimed by theorists such as Escobar as proving the need for Third World communities to enact a radical refusal of Western-Style development?
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 | Thursday's Reading Questions | | Tu 04-13-04 10:37:08 PM |
| | | Questions for Thursday, April 15
NOTE UNANNOUNCED CHANGE TO READING: read chapters 3, 5, 6 (skip 7)
--in retrospect, what do the various authors of these chapters think of the ideas of Robert Malthus?
--think about Sen in relation to Bledsoe: would the strategies that lowered population growth in Kerala work for Sierra Leone? Why or why not?
--for Bledsoe: what do children mean to people in Sierra Leone? According to what conception of rationality, developed in what context, is it rational NOT to limit fertility?
--what are the principal differences between the meaning of children to people in Sierra Leone vs. to nuclear families in advanced industrial societies?
--what is the central policy lesson of Willis' "economic" analysis of fertility? Can the principles of Willis' analysis explain the choices that people make in Sierra Leone?
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 | Syllabus S200-56702 (70.5Kb) | Microsoft Word | M 01-26-04 06:55:44 PM |
 | April 1 Guest Lecture: Readings | Folder | Sa 03-27-04 12:24:40 PM |
| | | Click here for PDF Files of the Readings for Jay Coggins' Guest Lecture on April 1, 2004. NOTE: We will return to Green Hall for this class. |
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 | Population Reference Bureau | URL | Tu 01-20-04 12:07:39 PM |
| | | Click here for the World Population Data Sheet and "Population: A Lively Introduction". Do not spend lots of time reading "Population": focus more on Wilmoth & Ball. |
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 | Wilmoth/Ball | URL | Tu 01-20-04 12:43:43 AM |
| | | To use this link for Thursday's (1-22) reading, "The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines," you need first to log in at the library. |
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| Daily Reading Questions By Week | Folder | Tu 02-10-04 07:13:56 PM |
 | Check my Grades | URL | Th 01-15-04 03:56:44 PM |
 | Paper Assignments | Folder | Th 02-19-04 10:35:57 PM |
