GI420 Half Unit
Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Naila Kabeer COL.5.04C
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in African Development, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender, Media and Culture, MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research), MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Regional And Urban Planning Studies and MSc in Urban Policy (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Sciences Po). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
This course cannot be taken alongside GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development.
Course content
This course will provide students with a thorough knowledge of theoretical and policy debates in the field of gender and development at local, national and international levels in an era of rapid globalisation. The course is organised as a number of themed blocks. The first deals with theories relating to policy, politics and power in the field of gender and international development. This is followed by three separate blocks, each organised around the feminist