Year
2022Credit points
10Campus offering
No unit offerings are currently available for this unitPrerequisites
10 cp from 200-level units in Development Studies
Teaching organisation
3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalentUnit rationale, description and aim
This unit questions the viability of the neoliberal policy prescriptions of free trade as it articulates with equitable and sustainable development. Capitalist and modernist development policies and programs are critiqued in terms of alternatives to capitalist development, including post-development theory. Using case studies from a variety of countries that have implemented non-capitalist development policies, we examine approaches that operate within capitalist development discourse, as well as those that articulate with capitalist development, such as fair trade.