Both courses are free of charge and are open to doctoral students from all fields of social sciences or related fields of study. Priority will be given to doctoral students in the Development Research School. Other applicants will be assessed and accepted on the basis of the relevance of their PhD project to the course theme.
Power, Justice and (De)coloniality in Development
Uppsala University, 7,5 credits
This course addresses various aspects of power in development. Rather than adapting a post-colonial perspective in which development practices and politics is portrayed as something enacted by the global North on the global South, the course is situated in the debates around decolonization in the contemporary global context and addresses various aspects of power and justice in development.
The course is divided into two parts. It starts by providing a theoretical and conceptual overview of political, economic, and discursive dimensions of power and relates these to development and (de)coloniality. The second part attends to the calls for decolonizing development policy and practice, including the decolonization of the discipline of development studies with a focus on debates around climate justice from a decolonial perspective.
Application deadline is October 11th 2024.
Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals
Lund University, 5 credits
The course provides a critical introduction to the governance of sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. It emphasizes the challenges of implementing the 2030 Agenda with a special focus on low-and middle-income countries and poverty reduction. Different theoretical perspectives and concepts related to governance will also be introduced and applied on empirical examples stemming from global, national, and local levels of sustainable development governance.
Doctoral students will be asked to connect their own research projects to the themes of the course and to bring in their perspectives on the 2030 Agenda from different disciplinary backgrounds.
Application deadline is 15 November 2024.
