31 Development Studies attempts to understand:

• how societies change and progress over time

• What help to make these changes

32 Two approaches:

• theoretical (understand how change occurs)

• applied (examine particular and how they can be applied)

33 Areas of focus:

Asia-Pacific region; urbanisation (including employment and migration and trade

34 you will develop the skills to:

• understand key development issues in detail

• gather data (both and textual data)

35 • carefully findings

36 • on a research project

37 Brief history of Development Studies:

1950s - The discipline emerged.issues were the major consideration.

38 1970s - Development Studies became more critical of common

and underlying assumptions. Questions were raised about power

39 environment sustainability and unequal issues.

40 1980s-today - National governments were no longer as important. Growing

Interest in small-scale practices such as giving very small .