Population and Economic Development Sociology 3148 Fordham College at Rose Hill/Fall 2013

Instructor: Dr. Laura Pearl Kaya, Ph.D. Email: laura.pearl@gmail.com Office: Dealy 408D Office Hours: Tuesday, Friday 2:15-3:00 Time: Tuesday, Friday 1:00-2:15 Room: FMH 215

This course explores the interrelationships among population change, economic/social development, and migration in the worlds less developed regions. Factors examined include population size, rate of growth, age distribution, health, fertility, food issues, ethnicity, urbanization and international migration. Observable trends, their causes, and the success or failure of policies designed to influence them are considered. Throughout the course, the divergent perspectives of anthropologists and the development community are compared and contrasted.

Books for Purchase: 1. Governing Chinas Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics, by Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin Winckler, Stanford University Press, 2005. 2. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS, by Elizabeth Pisani, Norton, 2009. 3. Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California Press, 1993. 4. The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, by James Ferguson, University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Other readings will be made available through Google Docs. This schedule is tentative and is subject to change. Course Schedule: A. Introduction 1. Friday, August 30 Introduction 2. Tuesday, September 3 What is Development? a. Developing Countries and the Concept of Development. in Smirzai, Adam, The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development, Cambridge University Press, 2005. b. The Probematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development. In Escobar, Arturo, Encountering Development, Princeton University Press, 1994. B. Historical Context 3. Friday, September 6 Colonialism a. Power, Conquest and a World System. in Culture Counts, Serena Nanda and Richard Warms, Cengage 2010 b. On National Culture, by Frantz Fanon, in Perspectives on Africa, R. Grinker and C. Steiner, eds. Blackwell, 1997. 4. Tuesday, September 10 World System a. The Making of a World System. in Rist, Gilbert The History of Development, P. Camiller, tr. Zed Books, 1997. b. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Cahpitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis. by Immanuel Wallerstein in Comparative Studies in Society and History 16(4):387415, 1974. C. Theoretical Backgrounds 5. Friday, September 13 Classical theory on population a. Chapters 1, 2 in Malthus, Thomas An Essay on the Principle of Population, Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project, 1798. b. Environment, population, and technology in primitive societies. By Ester Boserup in The Ends of the Earth, D. Worster, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 2

6. Tuesday, September 17 Modernization Theory a. Constructing a Model of Global Inequalities. in Bradshaw, York and Michael Wallace, Global Inequalities, Sage, 1996. b. Modernization Poised between History and Prophecy. in Rist, 1997. 7. Friday, September 20 Dependency Theory a. The Periphery and the Understanding of History in Rist, 1997. b. The Deliberately Forgotten History of Trade, in Fletcher, Ian, Free Trade Doesnt Work, U.S. Business and Industry Council, 2011. D. The Structure of Populations 8. Tuesday, September 24 Intro to Population a. Population and Development in Szirmai, 2005. a. The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change. By Ronald Lee in The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 17(4):167-190, 2003. 9. Friday, September 27 Aging populations a. Does It Matter Who Cares? A comparison of Daughters versus Daughters-in Law in Japanese Elder Care, by Susan Long, Ruth Campbell, and Nishimura Chie, Social Science Japan Journal 12(1):1-21, 2009. b. Pre-Funerals in Contemporary Japan: The Making of a New Ceremony of Latter Life among Aging Japanese, by Satsuki Kawano, Ethnology 43(2):155-165, 2004. 10. Tuesday, October 1 Young populations a. Timepass: Youth, Class, and Time among Unemployed Young Men in India, by Craig Jeffrey, in American Ethnologist 37(3):465481, 2010. b. The Economic Imperatives of Marriage: Emerging Practices and Identities among Youth in the Middle East, by Diane Singerman, Working Paper, 2007, http://www.shababinclusion.org/content/document/detail/559/. E. Urbanization 11. Friday, October 4 Urbanization I a. The Urban Climacteric in Davis, Mike, Planet of Slums, Verso, 2006. b. Exploding Cities: Housing the Masses in Paris, Chicago, and Mexico City 1850-2000, by Harold L. Platt. In Journal of Urban History 36:575, 2010. 12. Tuesday, October 8 Urbanization II a. Chapter 1, In Chang, Leslie, Factory Girls, Spiegel and Grau, 2009. b. The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia, by Aihwa Ong. In American Ethnologist, 15(1):1988.

F. The Family 13. Friday, October 11 Household composition and family structure a. Unwed Mothers and Household Reputation in a Spanish Galician Community, by Heidi Kelley. In American Ethnologist 18(3):565-580, 2009. b. From Mary to Modern Woman: The material basis of Marianismo and its transformation in a Spanish Village, by Jane Collier. In American Ethnologist 13(1)100-107, 1986. 14. Tuesday, October 15 Fertility policy I Introduction: Population as Politics, Problematique: Govermentalization of Population, and Introduction: Policy Actors and Policy Components (pages 1-54) in Governing Chinas Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics by Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin Winckler, Stanford University Press, 2005. 15. Friday, October 18 Fertility policy II The Shifting Local Politics of Population and Restratifying Chinese Society (pages 212-284) in Governing Chinas Population. G. Health and Disease 16. Tuesday, October 22 Intro to Health a. Health, Healthcare and Development, in Szirmai, 2005. b. New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era, in Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer, University of California Press, 2003. 17. Friday, October 25 AIDS I The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani, Norton, 2009. (read to p. 160.) 18. Tuesday, October 29 AIDS II The Wisdom of Whores. (Finish book.) 19. Friday, November 1 Infant Mortality I Reciprocity and Dependency and Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin (p. 98-127, 268339) in Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. By Nancy ScheperHughes, University of California Press, 1993. November 1 is the last day to elect the research paper option. 20. Tuesday, November 5 Infant Mortality II (M)Other Love and Our Lady of Sorrows (p. 340-445) in Death without Weeping.

H. Food Issues 21. Friday, November 8 Agricultural Innovation a. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity, by James C. Scott, in Seeing Like a State, Yale University Press, 1998. b. Mexicos Way Out, by Nick Cullather, in Hungry World, Harvard University Press, 2011. 22. Tuesday, November 12 Famines and democracy a. The Great Bengal Famine, by Amartya Sen, in Poverty and Famines, Oxford University Press, 1981. b. (optional) Comment: Why half the planet is hungry, by Amartya Sen, in The Observer, 2002. c. Poverty and Globalization by Vandana Shiva. BBC Reith Lecture, 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/lecture5.stm d. (optional)The Real Reasons for Hunger (A response to Sen) by Vandana Shiva, in The Observer, 2002. I. International Migration 23. Friday, November 15 International Migration a. The Migration Taboo by Paul Collier in Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World. Oxford University Press, 2013. b. Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity, by Katherine Pratt Ewing. In Cultural Anthropology 21(1):265-294, 2006. J. Ethnicity 24. Tuesday, November 19 Ethnicity I a. Number in the Colonial Imagination in Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large, University of Minnesota Press, 1996. b. Census, Map, Museum, in Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, Verso, 1987. 25. Friday, November 22 Ethnicity II a. Precarious Alliances: The cultural politics and structural predicaments of the indigenous rights movement in Tanzania, by Dorothy Hodgson. In American Anthropologist 104(4): 1086-1097, 2002. b. Fear of Small Numbers, in Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, Duke University Press, 2006. K. Neoliberalism 26. Tuesday, November 26 Neoliberalism I Freedoms Just Another Word, and The Neoliberal State in David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press, 2005. *****Term Paper due November 26***** 27. Tuesday, December 3 5

Neoliberalism II Introduction and Conceptual apparatus: the constitution of the object of development Lesotho as less developed country (p. 1-73). In The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, by James Ferguson, University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 28. Friday, December 6 Neoliberalism III The Bovine Mystique: a study of power, property, and livestock in rural Lesotho, Livestock development and Epilogue (p. 135-193, 279-288). In The Anti-Politics Machine. 29. December 17 Final Exam, 1:30 pm. Requirements Students will be required to submit two five-page response papers, each discussing one days readings. These papers will be due on the day that the readings are discussed in class; they will not be accepted either late or by email. Sign-up will be conducted in class on September 3. Each student will sign up for one date during the first half of the semester (up to and including October 18) and one date during the second half of the semester. A maximum of three students may sign up for any given date. Papers should be approximately 5 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 12-point font. Students will be required to submit one 10-12 page paper, due on November 26. All papers must be submitted in hard copy and late papers will be penalized. There are two options available for this paper. o Students may write a paper synthesizing a minimum of three days readings of their choice. These three days may not include the two days of readings about which they wrote their response papers, though of course those readings may also be referenced if relevant. This assignment will be discussed in class. Students are also strongly encouraged to discuss their papers with the instructor during her office hours. o Students may choose instead to write a research paper about any topic of their choice which is related to issues of population and development. Students electing this option must meet with the instructor to discuss their topics by November 1. There will be a cumulative final exam on December 17. Attendance and participation are required and will affect students grades. If a student must miss class, s/he should notify the instructor of this fact by email in advance of the class meeting and should obtain notes from a classmate. Grading Two response papers: 30% Term paper: 35% Final Exam: 25% Attendance and Class Participation: 10% Policy on Late or Missed Work:

All written work must be submitted as hard copies in class. Response papers will not be accepted late. In exceptional, well-documented circumstances, students who are unable to complete response papers on time may be allowed to make them up by responding to a later set of readings. Term papers are due on November 26. Extensions on term papers will be granted on a case-by-case basis to students who request them in advance from the instructor. Otherwise, late term papers will be marked down. No written work will be accepted after the last day of class (December 6.) All students must attend the final exam on December 17. Policy on Plagiarism Plagiarized papers will receive a grade of zero and may not be redone. A paper will be considered to be plagiarized if it contains any phrases or ideas copied from any source without proper citation.