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Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility

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Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) The poor need business to invest in their future. Business needs the poor because they are the future (United Nations Development Programme, 2006) TOPICS: 1Introduction to the course 2The Rise of CSR and Business Development 3Corporate Social Responsibility & the Market 4Business, Civil Society & the State: Partnerships for Development 5 Rights, Resources & Conflict: CSR and the Extractive Industries 6Business, Health & Development 7CSR & Ethical Trade: Producers, Consumers & Labour 8 Margins of the Market: Entrepreneurs & Small Business 9 CSR and its Critics where next?

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Teaching & Assessment 1 x 1hr Lecture per week 2 x 2hr Seminar per week Film series (optional Assessment 5,000 word essay

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Films Week 3 The Corporation (2003, Joel Bakan) Week 4 The Yes Men (2005, Chris Smith) Week 5 Up in Smoke (2008, Marty Otanez) Week 6 Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009, Joe Berlinger) Week 7 Not-so-fair-trade (2006, Libby Potter) Week 8 The World According to Monsanto (2008, Marie-Monique Robin) Week 9 Walmart The High Cost of Low Prices(2006, Robert Greenwald)

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Key Themes Partnership and the relationship between states, civil society and business in development The role of markets in development CSR, state regulation and voluntarism Resource wars, multinational business and the impact for development Labour, production and consumption

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Past Dissertations Topics The Complex Path of Cocoa: Tracing Commodity Trade, New Slavery and Tensions within Fairtrade Initiatives Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid The Way to Inclusive Capitalism? The Case of Mobile Phones Constructing Community Boundaries: The Limitations of CSR for the Health of Mineworkers in South Africa The Ideal of Innovation in Health: Biomedicines an the Biotechnology Industry a Socially Responsible Nexus? Taking the Shine of the Diamond Industry: Is the Kimberley Process Furthering Colonialism Beating the Climate Crunchwith your Wallet? The Limitations of Green Consumerism The Business of Breastfeeding: Development, Market Forces & the Construction of Maternal Identities Bottling Out: Investigating the relationship between Bottled Water Consumption and the Global Water Crisis Business, Brands and Symbols: Is Solidarity Consumption a Tool for Development?