2013 Past Events and Activities (Dec-13~)
Comparative Development Studies
The course will start from Friday, 13th December, 2013 (9:00-12:00).
The first part of the course
“Agrarian and Rural Transformation: Critical Assessments of Developments and Discourses”
will be offered by Prof Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
and Murat özturk (Kadir Has University, Turkey) on 13th, 17th, 20th, and 24th December,
and the second part by Prof Raymond Jussaume Jr. (Michigan State University, USA)
on the morning of 27th, 28th, 29th and 31st January, tentatively.
Course Outline————————————————————————
Course materials will be provided by the instructors.
For the first part, the following readings are listed by the instructors.
Zygmunt Bauman (2005), Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, Open University Press, Chapter 5 & 6.),
Philip McMichael (2009), “A Food Regime Genealogy”, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.36(1): 139-169.
Murat Ozturk (2012), Agriculture, Peasantry and Poverty in Turkey in the Neo-liberal Age, Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Caglar Keyder and Zafer Yenal (2011) “Agrarian Change under Globalization: Markets and Insecurity in Turkish Agriculture”, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol.11(1): 60–86.
Zeynep Gönen and Deniz Yonucu (2011) “Legitimizing Violence and Segregation: Neoliberal Discourses on Crime and the Criminalization of Urban Poor Populations in Turkey”, in Alan Bourke, Tia Dafnos and Markus Kip eds., Lumpencity: Discourses of Marginality/Marginalizing Discourses, Red Quil Books.
Murat Ozturk, Andy Hilton and Joost Jongerden (2013), “Migration as Movement and Multiplace Life: Some recent developments in rural living structures in Turkey”, Population, Space and Place, forthcoming (Wiley Online Library).
Hanah Wittman (2009), “Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil”, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol.25: 120-130.
J. K. Gibson-Graham (2008), “Diverse Economies: Performative practices for ‘other worlds’”, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.32(5): 613-632.