1 Key themes: PASH
In this first section you are going to think about and study the three themes, referred to as PASH:
- power and agency
- scale
- history.
These themes are used in this course to help you think about international development.
During this section’s activities you will contextualise these themes by reading Chapter 2 from International Development in a Changing World by Papaioannou and Butcher which is part of the TD223 International development: making sense of a changing world, and examining the case studies of Shanghai and Detroit. A breakdown of the activities is given below.
The estimated study time for this section is 13 hours and 15 minutes.
| Component | Recommended time spent |
|---|---|
| Activity 1 + Chapter 2 | 7 hours 45 minutes |
| Activity 2 + spray diagram tutorial | 15 minutes |
| Activity 3 + Detroit audio | 45 minutes |
| Activity 4 | 45 minutes |
| Activity 5 + articles | 1.5 hours |
| Activity 6 | 45 minutes |
| Activity 7 + Shanghai audio | 45 minutes |
| Activity 8 | 45 minutes |