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MS 9316 (Fall 2011)   Special Topic: Information Societies and Their Promises of 'Development'

Course Description
This course interrogates the concept of an 'information society' from the standpoint of critical development studies, a set of theoretical frameworks for analyzing the power dynamics of the modernist project of international development.  A major goal of the course is to expose the contradictions, tensions, and emancipatory potentials of this concept within the uneven terrain of global power dynamics.  Implicit in this exploration are issues regarding the future of the nation-state, potentially new democratic formations, and alternative critiques from the Global South.

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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