DAN SLATER
Title and Affiliation: JAMES ORIN MURFIN PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, USA
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Course Description: This course examines processes of economic development in contexts marked by long histories of colonialism and international dependency. We will collectively tackle these difficult analytical problems conceptually, theoretically, and empirically.
Gregory T. Chin
Title and Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science/Political Economy at York University, Canada
Time: Session 2, morning
Time: Session 2, morning
Course Description: This course examines the global rise of the “BRICS” – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa – and the emerging world order, giving attention to contending IPE theoretical perspectives. The main themes to be assessed are, first, the respective strengths and weaknesses of the competing IPE perspectives and related research agendas in the study of the BRICS as a global phenomenon and related impacts and consequences at the world order level.
Hyun Bang Shin
Title and Affiliation: Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
Time: Session 2, morning
Time: Session 2, morning
Course Description: China’s urban transformation has been one of the fastest and most consequential remaking of space in modern history. “The urban” in China is not only where growth happens; it is how the state governs, how capital accumulates, and how social inequality and environmental risk are produced and managed.
Samuele Bibi
Title and Affiliation: Associate Professor; Aalborg University, Denmark
Time: Session 2, morning
Time: Session 2, morning
Course Description: The aim of this module is to introduce students to the main paradigms of development economics while addressing key practical issues in contemporary development policy. Geopolitical economic topics are examined through the lens of development economics theories, debates, and historical experiences.
DAN SLATER
Title and Affiliation: JAMES ORIN MURFIN PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, USA
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Course Description: This course examines processes of economic development in contexts marked by long histories of colonialism and international dependency. We will collectively tackle these difficult analytical problems conceptually, theoretically, and empirically. What does economic development mean, and how is it generated, forestalled, embraced, or resisted? How did the world come to have the radically uneven patterns of development that it has?
