Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

It is preferable to have basic knowledge in International Relations, Economic Policy, International Law.
In particular, as far as geographic formation and development issues are concerned, knowledge will be gained in Chapters 1,2,3,4 of the book "Geography of Development" (Bignante, Celata, Vanolo) and in Chapters 1, 6,7,8 of the book "Political Geography" (Painter-Jeffrey). The students of the International Development Sciences and Cooperation Science degree are invited to review the above chapters, an integral part of the first year of Political and Economic Geography. Students from other graduate courses will be able to complete their training on these texts if they do not acquire other lessons in their degree course.

This course contributes to the realization of the study curriculum by providing the students with the key conceptual and analytical tools for understanding the logic, approaches, evolution and geography of international development cooperation, with an inter-and multidisciplinary approach, enhancing the connectivity capabilities of geographic knowledge.

The course aims to guide students to mature their ability to apply them autonomously and to encourage the acquisition of transversal skills that will enable them to activate such knowledge and skills in contexts and for different purposes.

At the end of the course the student will be able to
- Consciously use the essential concepts used in international development cooperation to analyze the main themes of the agenda, as defined in United Nations Agenda 2030 (knowledge and understanding skills);
- Recognize and reconstruct the theoretical approaches to international co-operation and related development views, including methodological problems that raise (knowledge and understanding skills);
- Apply the conceptual and methodological tools learned to analyze the main dynamics of international co-sympaction to contemporary development, different levels and different types of flows and actors (international organizations, governments, local authorities, NGOs, philanthropic associations, private sector) (knowledge and applied understanding skills);
- Critically discuss activities and approaches in international development cooperation, and cultural and political representations and paradigms that guide public debate by influencing decision-makers and the public (autonomy of judgment);
- know how to deconstruct in the essential terms and know how to identify and define in general terms and operational the problems and objectives of international cooperation projects (evaluation and application skills)
- activate the notions learned in situations and for different purposes thanks to the transverse skills developed (in particular, active reading and synthesis skills, critical thinking, problem solving, knowledge and writing skills, teamwork ability, design) (communicative and diverse skills).

Lectures, seminars and presentations by experts in the world of development cooperation, exercises in groups for attending students

The final exam will consist of a written test (semi-structured, with 4 short essays and one wider essay chosen from multiple questions), a prerequisite for admission to the oral exam, where a written report will be presented and discussed (grouped by attending students, in individual form for non-attending students) on the application parts and exercises carried out during the course.

The written test is intended to verify: a) the level of mastery of the fundamentals; b) the critical thinking ability of the study carried out and the connection between the different notions learned; c) the ability to discourse knowledge.
The written report and the oral presentation are intended to verify: (a) the ability to apply general knowledge to a specific topic related to international cooperation; b) critical thinking ability; c) the capacity for discourse and presentation.

The vote is on base 30 and is composed as follows: max 24 for the written test + max 6 points for the written report (3 points) and the oral presentation (3 points).

Non-attending students are encouraged to contact the teacher to agree on the topic and the modalities of the written report to be discussed at the ores. Further notes for the written report are available in the notes below.

Exercises and outside experts interventions are planned.

- Development cooperation: the origins, reasons, trends, policies

- Actors and approaches in international development cooperation

- Monitoring and evaluation of development cooperation

- The problems of development and cooperation in the political agendas emerging targets post-2015 of Agenda 2030

- Local development and participation in development cooperation

- The evolution of the Italian development cooperation policy

- Security, food sovereignty and fight against hunger: policies of international and local food

NECESSARY BOOKS

-          Lecture notes by the teacher and other papers in English (available at the beginning of the courses and shown in "educational materials").

-          Bini V. "La cooperazione allo sviluppo in Africa.  Teorie, politiche, pratiche, Mimesis Edizioni, MIlano, 2'16;

-         Action Aid, "L'Italia e la lotta alla povertà nel mondo. Una leadership per un futuro sostenibile", Annuario della cooperazione allo sviluppo 2016, Carocci, Roma, 2017;

-          Legge 11 agosto 2014, n. 125, Disciplina generale sulla cooperazione internazionale per lo sviluppo", http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it.

RESEARCH MATERIALS

-         Ianni V., "Lo sviluppo nel XXI secolo. Concezioni, processi, sfide", Roma, Carocci, 2017.

-         Carrino L., "Perle, pirati e sognatori. Dall'aiuto allo sviluppo a una nuova cooperazione internazionale", FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2016.

-          Bignante E., Dansero E., Scarpocchi C., "Geografia e cooperazione allo sviluppo. Temi e prospettive per un approccio territoriale", FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2008.

-          Bonaglia F., De Luca V., "La cooperazione internazionale allo sviluppo. Nord e sud del mondo: insieme per ridurre la povertà e garantire i diritti umani", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006 (disponibile anche in versione ebook).

-          Tommasoli M., "Politiche di cooperazione internazionale. Analisi e valutazione", Carocci Editore, Roma, 2013

-          Biggeri M., Volpi F., "Teoria e politica dell'aiuto allo sviluppo", Franco Angeli, Milano, ed. 2006, ristampa 2014.

-          ActionAid, "L'Italia e la lotta alla povertà nel mondo. Il cambiamento possibile=efficacia+coerenza+riforma", Annuario della cooperazione allo sviluppo 2013, Carocci, Roma, 2013.

-         ActionAid, "L'Italia e la lotta alla povertà nel mondo. Una nuova democrazia del cibo", Annuario della cooperazione allo sviluppo 2014, Carocci, Roma, 2014.

-         Action Aid, "L'Italia e la lotta alla povertà nel mondo. Un'agenda a 360°", Annuario della cooperazione allo sviluppo 2015, Carocci, Roma, 2015;

-          Dansero E., Lanzano C., Tecco N. (a cura di), "Sguardi incrociati, nature svelate. Aree protette, cooperazione decentrata e rappresentazioni della natura fra Piemonte e Africa subsahariana", FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2013.

-          Marelli S., ONG: una storia da raccontare. Dal volontariato alle multinazionali della solidarietà, Carocci, 2011.

-          Capocchini R., Perotti F., "Con i piedi per terra. Lavorare con le organizzazioni contadine nei progetti di cooperazione allo sviluppo, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2012.

-          Pellizzoli R, Rossetti G. (a cura di), "Donne, terre e mercati. Ripensare lo sviluppo rurale in Africa subsahariana, Cleup, Padova, 2013, http://www.iao.florence.it/events/iaogender_donneterreemercati-it.pdf

-          Pallotti A., Zamponi M., "Le parole dello sviluppo. Metodi e politiche della cooperazione internazionale", Carocci, Roma, 2014.

-          Ianni V. (a cura di), "Dizionario della cooperazione internazionale allo sviluppo. Una mappa per orientarsi nei rapporti Nord-Sud", Carocci, Roma, 2011.

-          Todesco M. Non siamo folli. La cooperazione allo sviluppo come mestiere, edizioni Edizioni Effedì, Vercelli, 2016

-          Ciarlo E. (a cura di), Tomorrowland. Una strategia per la nuova cooperazione italiana, Edizioni Palinsesto, 2015 (ebook)

For Erasmus students and foreigners it is' possible to agree an alternative program in English or French and afford the examination with a written test in English or French.

INDICATIONS FOR NON-FREQUENCY STUDENTS

Written Report - a.a. 2016-17

Goals:

- Understanding and describing relationships between poverty contexts and processes and development cooperation projects.

- Analysis of specific cases of policies, programs, projects (on different scales, eg Sweden's cooperation policy ...) or cross-themed issues (gender, participation, effectiveness) or specific themes (water, food, waste ...).

The topic must be proposed to the teacher and receive his approval.

Reference scheme for the report

Structure of the report

- Indicative length 10000 characters (+ bibliography, images, tables ...)

- Free Schema (the one above is a track)

- No wikipedia (good to get an idea), no copy-paste (I can easily see it), google scholar (https://scholar.google.com) Google search engine dedicated to magazines and magazines texts of scientific interest.

- Cite sources, comply with bibliographical rules (see below)

- Graphics, tables, pictures

- It is more appreciated by an interpretative effort from the student, founded as much as possible on quantitative and data elements.

Delivery: at least 5 days before the date of the appeal (via email, pdf to egidio.dansero@gmail.com, indicating in the "Cooperation - Student ..." report). The email address is to be used only for sending the report, for other institutional communications use the institutional email egidio.dansero@unito.it.

Example of bibliography (see also the tool "references" in Word 2007 and further versions)

Paper in journal

Amin A. (1989), "Flexible specialisation and small firms in Italy. Myths and realities", Antipode, 21, pp. 13-34.

Paper in book

Callon M. (1998). "Introduction: The embeddedness of economic markets in economics", in Callon M. (1998), "Introduction: the Embeddedness of Economic Markets in Economics", in The Laws of Markets Ed. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1- 57

Edited books

Callon M. (2008) (a cura di), The laws of the markets, ed. Blackwell, Oxford.

Book

Cernea M. (1985), Putting People First. Sociological Variables in Rural Development, OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford.

Sitography

Website (web address) (consulted in ...)