授業の目的 【日本語】
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | The major objective of this course is to consider changing issues, phenomena, and conditions for development, using African societies as cases to consider their relevance to other aspiring continents. With technological advancement and increasing personalization and informalization of economic and social activities, conventional assumptions about state-led paths for development found in textbooks are less able to explain diverse models of socio-economic advancement.
Africa gives us a lot of insights on such non-standard, unexplained models of change. Africa has been considered underdeveloped. However, in recent years, many African countries have demonstrated rapid economic growth, albeit dependent on natural resource exports and cheap production costs. While we constantly hear the news about political instability in this continent, the root causes of such phenomena are diverse. In sum, it is increasingly difficult to understand Africa and its development by applying uniform measures.
Therefore, in this course, students will learn theories and analytical perspectives to make sense of diverse African realities, drawing examples from different time periods in history and geographic locations. Throughout the class, students are required to draw some implications and lessons of the discussed theories and cases to their own societies, whether they are in Africa or in other parts of the world.
Since the political, economic, and social realities in these societies are constantly changing, students are encouraged to read news articles, and follow current debates, and participate in class discussions actively. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | |
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到達目標 【英語】
Objectives of the Course | | | Students acquire the ability to consider developmental issues in African societies in broad comparative perspectives. |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | For all sessions, students are required to read the assigned readings and submit the comment paper before attending.
Session 1 Introduction
Structure of the course
Session 2 Theories of Development – What does “underdevelopment” mean?
Orientalism and African Development Studies: the ‘reductive repetition’ motif in theories of African underdevelopment, Andreasson 2005
African Development Report
Session 3 Global politics and Africa (1) – Legacies of the Cold War
“Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa” Ichiro Maekawa 2022.
“Kwame Nkrumah: Cold War Modernity, Pan-African Ideology and The Geopolitics of Development” Evan White 2003.
Session 4 Global politics and Africa (2) – U.N. system and the new international order
Developing countries and the right to development: a retrospective and prospective African view, Cheru, 2016.
Natural resource exports and African countries’ voting behaviour in the United Nations: Evidence from the economic rise of China, Che, etal. 2021.
Session 5 Global politics and Africa (3) – Echoes from Non-alignment movement and Pan-Africanism
“The Asian-African Conference (Bandung) and Pan-Africanism: the challenge of reconciling continental solidarity with national sovereignty” Hongou
“Semi-peripheral countries and the invention of the ‘Third World’, 1955–65” Laron
Session 6 Governance – tested assumptions of democracy
“The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators without Theory” Andrews
“Developmental Patrimonialism? The Case of Rwanda” Booth and Golooba-Mutebi
Session 7 National identities and citizenship – principal-agent and nation-state
“The construction of peoplehood” Wallerstein
“Voting for an ethnic identity: procedural and institutional responses to ethnic conflict in Ethiopia” Smith
Session 8 Citizenship and migration
“Instability in the Great Lakes Region” Reyntjens
“Higher Learning: educational availability and flexible citizenship” Ong
Session 9 Employment and decent work (microeconomics)
“Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion” Dolan and Rajak
“What is in a Job? The Social Context of Youth Employment Issues in Africa” Ismail
Session 10 International trade and industrial development (macroeconomics)
“Do global strategies for eradication of poverty in sub-saharan Africa work?” Apodaca
“The Cycle of Development in Africa: A Story about the Power of Economic Ideas” Paldam
Session 11 Aid and the relationship with donors
Anti-politics machine, Ferguson
“China and the World Bank” Kopinski 2014
Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo
Session 12 Work, employment, and skills
Developing youth skills for employment (African center for economic transformation)
Session 13 Education, health, and social development
“African Education: Dilemmas, Challenges & Opportunities” Kinyanjui, in Himmelstrand, Kinyanjui & Mburugu
“Decolonizing education and social platform in Africa” Abdi
Session 14 Conviviality vs. Universalism
“Incompleteness: Frontier Africa and the Currency of Conviviality” Nyamnjoh
“Human Rights and Development in Africa: moral intrusion or empowering opportunity?” Mohan and Holland
“Orientalism and African Development Studies: the ‘reductive repetition’ motif in theories of African underdevelopment” Stefan Andreasson, 2005.
Agenda 2063, Africa Union
Session 15 Presentation of term papers |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | | There is no precondition to take this course |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | Preparation for class discussion 30%
Preparation includes (1) reading the assigned articles/book chapters; (2) submitting comment papers in response to the questions given by the instructor
Class participation 30%
In the class, the instructor will lead the discussion based on the opinions raised in students’ comment papers.
Individual paper 40%
Students are assigned to write a paper on educational issues in relation to one or some of the theories learned in the class. Details will be explained later. The submission deadline of the paper is January 31, 2021.
Credit is given to C- or C (where applicable) or higher grade for each criterion. |
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教科書・参考書
Textbook/Reference Book | | Reading materials are listed in the schedule.
References for further study will be provided either in the class or at the time of providing the reading materials. |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | | Students are required to read assigned materials and submit comment papers before attending the class. |
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注意事項
Notice for Students | | |
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使用言語
Language(s) for Instruction & Discussion | | |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | 対面で実施します。
Classes will be held in-person. |
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遠隔授業（オンデマンド型）で行う場合の追加措置
Additional measures for remote class (on-demand class) | | |
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