News article added on Dec 07 2009
An African Studies Group has been meeting in DCU for the last six months. Topics discussed so far have included conflict, extraction of natural resources, and studying traditional medicine. The participants come from a range of disciplines, from health to political science.
Next meeting will be held on Friday 18th December at 3.00 pm in room H124 (first floor in Nursing Building - take the staircase above the cafe)
Topic: What is development (and who decides)?
Two readings are available in advance, and can be forwarded to anyone who is interested.
For DCU staff there is also a Moodle page where the readings are available. Please email
us to request enrolment in the Moodle course.
Since this will be the last meeting before Christmas, feel free to bring along some food, to help make it even more relaxed than usual.
Anne Matthews (School of Nursing) and Walt Kilroy (CIS / School of Law and Government)
Co-convenors
Readings for next meeting:
Schuurman, Frans, "Paradigms lost, paradigms regained? Development studies
in the twenty-first century", Third World Quarterly, Vol 21, No 1, pp 7-20,
2000
Edwards, Michael, "The Irrelevance of Development Studies", Third World
Quarterly, 11 (1), pp 116-135, Jan 1989