Materials:	Primary literature about the Bakun Dam (or other projects), including materials prepared by proponents and opponents of the project; secondary literature on natural resource development (including logging) in Sarawak; secondary literature on water projects elsewhere.
Activity:	To examine the role of concepts of progress, modernization, development, etc. in the promotion of the Bakun Dam. Using materials provided by project proponents, identify arguments, symbols, images, used to link the project to larger issues of national development and progress. What assumptions about development and progress are reflected in these links?
Activity:	Take key phrases that have been used to describe this project, or other dam projects, and explain what assumptions, values are represented by these phrases.
Activity:	Prepare a position paper advocating the Bakun project, based on the view that such a project will lead to development of the region and its people.
Activity:	Prepare a paper explaining how our understanding of other forms of resource exploitation in Sarawak, particularly its timber trade, can be applied to understanding the Bakun project within the context of the political economy of Sarawak.
Activity:	It has been argued that the Bakun project will help develop Sarawak to the level of mainland Malaysia, perhaps by providing new power for industrial development. It has also been argued that the project will perpetuate Sarawak's status as a resource hinterland for the mainland. Develop a position paper, and/or debating position, for either point of view.