General bibliographical references for the class

Tania Li Murray, The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics, Durham, Duke University Press, 2007.

Nic Cheeseman, Claire McLoughlin, Sameen Ali, Kailing Xie, David Hudson, The Politics of Development, London, Sage, 2024. 

Gilbert Rist, Le développement Histoire d’une croyance occidentale, 2007 (3^e éd.), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po.

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, La revanche des contextes : Des mésaventures en ingénierie sociale en Afrique et au-delà, Paris, Karthala, 2021. 

Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. STU-Student edition. Princeton University Press, 1995.

Podcast Des Nouvelles de Demain avec Nadine Machikou, "De l'impérialisme compassionnel à la réparation", 10 mai 2024: https://shows.acast.com/des-nouvelles-de-demain-le-podcast/episodes/nadine-machikou-de-limperialisme-compassionnel-a-la-reparati 

Fred Cooper, "Modernity". Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 113-150.

James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, New Haven, Yale University university Press, 1998.