Race in/and Development: Nexus Between Racism and Sustainable Development

hi,
This is an essay outline task for 750 words, about social policy and development subject.
Read the guidelines, requirements, and suggested examples for structure, then you can choose the topic and I will provide class lecture PowerPoint and readings so you can start.
The topics are:
1.The State, Social Policy and Development
This lecture explores the nature of social policy and development and the connec,ons between them. It pays par,cular a_en,on to the role of the state in social policy and development and considers the changing nature of states, from extrac,ve to welfare-distribu,ve, to a regulatory model. In doing so, this lecture examines different understandings of governance and the ways in which these structures shape development and social policymaking and argues for the explicitly poli,cal nature of social policy and development.
2.Power, A Potted History of Development and Resistance
This lecture explores the idea of ‘development’ and how it has, to a greater or lesser extent, focused on the social dimensions of development and explicitly used social policy as a means of interven,on. In doing so, it traces the key ideas that have underpinned the concept and prac,ce of development and social policy, and how these have shieed from grand metanarra,ves of development (modernisa,on, dependency) to an,-metanarra,ves (post-colonialism, post-development). It then turns to an examina,on of one of the dominant discourses of development in the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals, examining the global goals through key theore,cal lenses. It also raises ques,ons about the intersec,ons between and within different goals and their implica,ons for social policymaking for development.
3.Race in/and Development
Race fundamentally structures the modern world and shapes the lived experiences of so- called Global North and South actors. This lecture carefully examines the nexus between race and development using a broad range of disciplinary conven,ons from philosophy, cri,cal race studies, cri,cal development studies, sociology, etc. It explores development over the longue durée, assessing how its historical antecedents — slavery, colonialism, imperialism — and its contemporary manifesta,ons — globalisa,on, neoliberalism — have produced racialised ‘phenotypic others’ and hierarchies of race and place.
4.Policy Actors and Processes
This lecture outlines and explains some of the main approaches to understanding policy in the literature and iden,fies important tensions between ‘technical’ and ‘poli,cal’ approaches. We explore how and why such tensions ma_er for the design and implementa,on of social policy objec,ves. We also explore how interna,onal aid further complicates the picture. The big ques,on underpinning this lecture is: ‘given that policy processes are messy, contested and oeen opaque, how can we use research to cri,que exis,ng policy and suggest new direc,ons?’