
Eighth presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021.
We will keep posting these online videos (over the next 2 or 3 months) until there is a full set for the complete unit of study, which can be freely read, without assessment. It is up to an associated university to take it up as a unit of study, adding assessed tasks and allowing it to count for a credit towards degree studies.
Set readings:
Week Eight
Janes, Craig R and Oyuntsetseg Chuluundorj (2004) ‘Free Markets and Dead Mothers: The Social Ecology of Maternal Mortality in PostSocialist Mongolia’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly Washington, Jun 2004. Vol. 18, Issue 2, p. 230-257
Kirk, John M. (2009) ‘Cuba’s Medical Internationalism: Development and Rationale’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol 28, No. 2, pp.115
Sachs, Jeffrey D. (2001) Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Executive Summary, online:
https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/42463
The Readings and course materials are being posted at this site:
SDPCW#1 – Overview: Self Determination in the Post Colonial World

Tim Anderson
Tim Anderson was a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney for 20 years. Now he is Director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He researches and writes on development, rights and self-determination in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has published many dozens of chapters and articles in a range of academic books and journals. His latest books are Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2015), The Dirty War on Syria (Global Research, Montreal, 2016) and AXIS OF RESISTANCE- Towards an Independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019).
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