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African spaces between development and sustainable development Tuesday March 4th 2008

African spaces between development and sustainable development Tuesday March 4th 2008 General presentation of the class. Introductions The aim of the class Tools and ways to use them Presentation of the program Oral presentation choice First elements Next week Before the end.

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African spaces between development and sustainable development Tuesday March 4th 2008

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  1. African spaces between development and sustainable development Tuesday March 4th 2008 General presentation of the class

  2. Introductions • The aim of the class • Tools and ways to use them • Presentation of the program • Oral presentation choice • First elements • Next week • Before the end ...

  3. Cristina D’Alessandro-Scarpari • PhD in Human Geography (Université de Tours) : geographers and development • Post-doctorate in the US (West Virginia University): Digital Earth, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park • Research topics: Subsharan Africa, environmental protection, development, African cities

  4. Cristina D’Alessandro-Scarpari • Courriel: • cristina.dalessandroscarpari@sciences-po.org • cristina.dalessandroscarpari@wanadoo.fr • Site web: • http://scarpari.free.fr/  cristina

  5. The aim of the class • African spaces • Scientific objectives • Look at Sub-Saharan Africa from a geographical perspective • Deal with different scales: not only Africa as a unit, but also spaces, places, regions • Didactic objectives • Go beyond common ideas brought by the media about underdevelopment, poverty, violence, corruption... • Study problems, but also African solutions, paying attention to powers, dynamics and changes in spaces • Be confronted with the complexity of the situations, with the variety of cases and the huge differences within the subcontinent • General objectives • Give you theoretical frameworks and case studies • Train you to develop a critical understanding of African realities • Give you the intellectual tools to understand the news and the changes • Give you an understanding of African voices

  6. An indispensable tool • Basic knowledge of Sub-Saharan Africa • A geographical perspective

  7. http://allafrica.com/ http://en.afrik.com/

  8. The best…..

  9. It can be useful

  10. http://www.sciences-po.fr/ • Please send me an email: cristina.dalessandroscarpari@sciences-po.org

  11. Sciences Po’s library • http://bibliotheque.sciences-po.fr/ • To locate documents • Paper documents • Electronic documents (e-bibliothèque)

  12. Sciences Po’s cartography lab. http://cartographie.dessciences-po.fr/recherche.php5

  13. Program’s presentation • Calendar • Program • Grading system • Oral presentations • Bibliography and readings

  14. Choice of oral presentations

  15. To start • African spaces and not Africa or territories powers • Human Geography is a social science  society and social groups, individuals  actors • Spaces are not made once for all  dynamics • Social representations have practical consequences  imaginaries and actions

  16. Spaces Societies Powers African spaces

  17. Development? • Development is a group of practices sometimes (apparently) contradictory • … to insure social reproduction … • … it forces the transformation and destruction of physical environments • … and social relations … • … in order to increase production … • … merchandise (goods, services) … • … exchanged by a solvent demand.

  18. Gilbert Rist Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Développement

  19. Next week • Week 2 - From postcolonial development to structural adjustment • Mandatory reading : Cooper F. (2002), Africa since 1940. The past of the present, Cambridge University Press, 91-132 (chapter 5 – Development and disappointment) • Fundamental reading to discuss in class : read and analyze it, think of the content

  20. To end ... • www.guardian.co.uk/ • Monday February 25th 2008 • "South Africa to resume elephant culling”  • For the first time since 2004 • The number of elephants in the country has risen from 8.000 to 20.000

  21. Different actors and voices • The country’s environment minister: last resort population control measure • Animal Rights Africa criticized as flawed for ethical, scientific and historical reasons  they accused the government of "bowing to pressure from private landowners and South African National Parks".

  22. To go further… • Fields destroyed and landowners complain • The South African Parks’ position • The economic business involved • The government’s dilemma • The animal rights activists • To combine conservation and people’s lives and economic needs

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