https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/SOCL5014?type=COREThis course will discuss the major theories and approaches in the anthropological study of development. The intention is to critically review the history of development theory, with a special attention to the political context and content of each model, alongside anthropological models of culture change. The course will be looking at the relation between anthropology and the development machine, and trace the paradigm shifts in development models. The debate will focus on the question if is to draw a line between development cooperation and intervention. A special focus will lie on south-south alliances, which claim to provide development "from within". Attention will be paid to the envoironmental paradigms, digitization of development, 'financial inclusion' and the proliferation of surveillance capitalism.