You will develop a title for your research project.

a) You will select one Global South country or a region in one of the Global South countries of your choice.

b) You will develop a title for your research project.

c) You will choose 5-course readings for which you would develop your essay

d) You will develop social justice-oriented, creative and practical research work and must link social exclusion with each of the following readings.

e) Your research work must list all references cited in an appropriate scholarly format, and typed, double-spaced, and stapled

these are the readings that you can choose 5-readings from:

Week 2 Land exclusion
Hall, D., Hirsch, P., & Li, T. M. (2011). Introduction to powers of exclusion: land dilemmas in Southeast Asia.

Week 3 Race, Gender and Informal Banking
Hossein, C. S. (2013). The Black social economy: Perseverance of banker ladies in the slums. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 84(4), 423-442.

Week 4 Entrepreneurship, Social and Cultural Capital at the Margins
Meagher, K. (2009). Trading on faith: religious movements and informal economic governance in Nigeria. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 47(3), 397-423.

Week 5 Moral Economy of Inclusion and Exclusion
Kabeer, N. (2002). Citizenship, affiliation and exclusion: perspectives from the South.
Shiva, V. (2001). Special Report: Golden Rice and Neem: Biopatents and the Appropriation of Women’s Environmental Knowledge. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 29(1/2), 12-23.

Week 6 Social exclusion, Gender, and Everyday Work
Al Alhareth, Y., Al Alhareth, Y., & Al Dighrir, I. (2015). Review of women and society in Saudi Arabia. American Journal of Educational Research, 3(2), 121-125.
Makhoul, J., Taket, A., Khoury, M., & Kabakian-Khasholian, T. (2019). Insights into theorizing social exclusion and inequities: A perspective from the Arab World. Journal of Social Inclusion, 10(1).

Week 7 Race, Social Exclusion in Everyday Work and Micro-Banking
Hossein, C. S. (2014). The exclusion of Afro-Guyanese Hucksters in micro-banking. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 75-98.

Week 8 Financial Exclusion
Johnson, S., & Nino-Zarazua, M. (2011). Financial access and exclusion in Kenya and Uganda. The Journal of Development Studies, 47(3), 475-496.

Week 9 Some Alternative Ways of Dealing with Financial Exclusion
Fasoranti, M. M. (2013). Rural savings mobilization among women: a pancea for poverty reduction. Abstract of Economic, Finance and Management Outlook, 1(1), 1-40.
Nwabughuogu, A. I. (1984). The isusu: an institution for capital 1 formation among the Ngwa Igbo; its origin and development to 1951. Africa, 54(4), 46-58.

Week 10 Local Culture, Fashion and Business
Ajani, O. A. (2012). Aso ebi: the dynamics of fashion and cultural commodification in Nigeria. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 5(6), 108-18.

Langlois, T. (1998). The Gnawa of Oujda: Music at the margins in Morocco. The world of music, 135-156.

Week 11 Women in Informal Textile Business
Prag, E. (2013). Mama Benz in trouble: networks, the state, and fashion wars in the Beninese textile market. African Studies Review, 101-121.

Week 12 Gender Intersecting with Many Factors of Social Exclusion
Mander, H. (2008). Living with Hunger: Deprivation among the aged, Single Women and people with Disability. Economic and Political Weekly, 87-98.

Bolles, A. L. (2002). Michael manley in the vanguard towards gender equality. Caribbean quarterly, 48(1), 45-56.

The Final Product

While the emphasis will be placed on the novelty of the argument and the critical analysis thereof, the papers will be graded on the basis of the following considerations:

1. Topic: free topic but must be related to the course topics, relevant, very narrow!

2. Thesis: clear statement of argument at the outset (ideally in the introduction), novelty!
3. Research: breadth and depth of research focusing on argument.
4. Analysis: critical, interdisciplinary, depth, focus on argument, logic, balance
5. Originality: novelty, insight, thought-provoking.

6. Evidence: primarily scholarly references to support claims; avoid quotations, instead paraphrase authors’ ideas using your own words and citing source.

7. Readings: a minimum of 5 readings from the list posted above. In part, this requirement is to confirm whether students are familiar with the course materials and class discussions. Outside readings welcome.

8. Organization: clear structure throughout paper i.e. introduction, development of argument by articulating the key claims with supportive references, conclusion
9. Style: clarity, flow, avoid long sentences and paragraphs, correct citation format (any but be consistent e.g. APA[1], McGill or the like) and grammar. preferably MLA.

10. Length: maximum 12-15 double-spaced pages. Do not waste space and time describing the topic without developing your argument or discussing issues that are not central to the argument of your paper.