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Post-colonial Economies
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settler: ex. Canada
non-settler: ex. India mixed: South Africa |
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Post-colonial "Worlds"
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First: developed industrial-capitalist nations: cold war allies of US (West)
Second: communist/socialist nations (allies of USSR) Third: impoverishd, dependent post-colonial nations (South) Fourth: Indigenous peoples within 'other' nation-states. |
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world system theory
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societies are parts of an interrelated system that is global, capitalist and industrial.
cheap labour and raw materials from periphery to Core and Semi periphery in exchange for high profit consumption goods. |
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Modernization/ Westernization
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Social change that development brings about:
-industrial and large-scale farming and agribusiness -wage labour -urbanization -civic planning -nucleur family etc |
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neocolonializm
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post-colonial "fates" of the colonies and colonizers remain interdependent. continued cultural dominance of the colonizers or a more generalized "west"
continued economic oppresion. |
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cultural imperialism
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imposition, dominance or control of one culture over others, owing to its greater socioeconomic and political power
results in change or destruction of original cultures |
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invention
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aka innovation
indigenous development of new ideas/practices/technologies |
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diffusion
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more prevalent form
spread via cultural contract of new ideas/practices/technologies |
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modernization
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process of directed social change aka development
assumes that the West in modernized and other nations and people should become modern |
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globalization
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ever-increasing reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces
-Space-time compression -Multilocality -cosmopolitanism -consumerism |
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Global scapes
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Ethnoscapes: flow of people
Technoscapes: goods Mediascapes: images Financescapes: money Ideoscapes: ideas |
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Cultural homogenization
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local cultures are losing their unique features in being forced to participate in Western markets, goods, ideologies, languages to trade.
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Cultural hybridity
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differences of local places are re-emphasized against global processes of Western economic development and local peoples are active.
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anti globalization
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hedgemony: internalization of dominant/core values (gramsci)
resistance: public and hidden transcript (scott) |
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MNC/TNC
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multi/trans national corporations
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SEZ
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special economic zones
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The Marshall Plan
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European Recovery Program initiated post-war to help war-damaged european countries economically through &12 bil.
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development aims
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improve social justice and human rights
address inequality and security restore self-sufficiency/reduce dependancy |
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outsourcing
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when large Western companies run their factories in other countries providing cheap labour for the locals and receiving much profit.
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developmental problems
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exacerbates inequalities in worlds system
overinnovation: excessive social change underdifferentitation: one-size fits all approach environmentally unsustainable |
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Dependancy
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South depends on the North for economic income while North depends on the South for cheap labour etc.
Development of north is supported by the underdevelopment of the south |
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impacts of globalization and development on indigenous and non-western peoples
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environmentally unsustainable, overinnovation and underdifferentiation
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anthropological contributions to development
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do not judge but care for these cultures. support basic needs (water, shelter, food, opportunity) and human rights.
culturally relative, holistic, |
