After a general introduction on epistemology, the course will cover different paradigms concerning theories of global political economy, inequality and social change. It will engage with explanations from historical and contemporary perspectives (such as modernization, dependency, neo-gramscian and feminist approaches) and analyse their ontological and methodological assumptions – as well as their biases and blind spots.
The session are usually structured into a 45 min lecture, 15 min break, followed by a 90 min seminar.