[Soasiastudents] REMINDER: Corbridge on Development Studies, Monday, Jan 29, Comm 120, 4:00 PM

[Juned Shaikh]

The Impossibility of Development Studies
By Stuart Corbridge (Human Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Monday, Jan 29, 2007, 4:00 PM, comm 120

In this presentation, Corbridge will reflect on the status and integrity of development studies as a discipline. Is it an impossible enterprise, and if not, why not? How meaningful are discourses of "development" at a time of war in Iraq and when the median age of death in sub-Saharan Africa is slightly less than 5 years?

Stuart Corbridge is Professor of Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Most recently Corbridge is the co-author of Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in Rural India (2005) with Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava, and Rene Veron; Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity (2004) with Sarah Jewitt and Sanjay Kumar; and Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy (2003) with John Harriss.
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Juned Shaikh,
PhD Student,
Department of History,
R.A. South Asia Center,
University of Washington.
juneds at u.washington.edu