ADH713 - Community, Development and Humanitarianism in An Era of Climate Crisis
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 1-hour class per week and 1 x 1-hour seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week |
Content
Development and humanitarianism as we understand them today, emerged as stabilising movements during times of instability and political crisis – wars, and post war economic and political instability. Today, the world faces a series of interlinked and overlapping, and therefore compounding crises, (sometimes referred to as a polycrisis) centred around increasing climate change driven events, health, economic and political contexts. Climate change underpins and compounds every aspect of development, disaster and crisis response, and humanitarianism . This foundational unit considers the histories of development and humanitarianism, examining the trajectory of each, their achievements, and injuries, and asks after their fitness and relevance for the challenges facing the planet and its communities today. The unit explores existing theoretical, conceptual and practical divisions between international development, community development, humanitarian response and crisis and disaster management across global and local contexts. The unit adopts a multidisciplinary lens to explore orthodox and heterodox claims and critiques in global development, disaster and crisis preparedness and management, and the role and evolution of humanitarianism. This unit aims to confront the challenges of thinking about the goals and actions of development and humanitarianism in the context of the climate crisis, and to consider to what extent the agendas of both contribute to the deepening of this crisis. The unit explores the increasingly complex and systemic interrelationships between notions of development in contemporary contexts, humanitarian and disaster contexts and discourses as well as consider opportunities for system wide transformation.
Unit Fee Information
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