Underdevelopment

Colonialism is a big theme in the 20th century. Both Gandhi and Fanon have written on colonialism and violence during that era. One if them is a guru of India, leading people to peace and unionship; the other is a psychiatrist working in Algeria, seeing the condition of Algerian people under the French control. Having experienced authentic colonialism during their years of service in an developing or underdeveloped country, they both have feelings to express regarding the oppression enforced by a European country onto a country in Asia or Africa. Thus came along the work of Mohandas K. Gandhi: Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule (1909) and The Wretched of the Earth. This paper aims to look at both texts, both authors, and to find the differences of their views on obtaining decolonization. Through those differences, we should be able to see some unchangeable ideas governing the order of the world. Both Gandhi and Fanon have argued that adoption of education India had been under British control, Gandhi argued that the force of pushing Indian people to adopt British culture is very toxic. They should have their own rule instead of adopting the Western way that had been reinforced upon them. It is “home rule” only if it is “self-rule”, and when it is the English way that they are carrying out, they become English in essence but not Indians, and thus lose the ability to call it “home rule” or “self rule”. Similar ideas exist in Fanon’s work as well. Fanon argued that verbal ability…

Journal 1: Underdevelopment In a world of imperfect people, it is inevitable that there will be inequality between individuals. These inequalities manifest themselves in many ways, one of which ways is underdevelopment. Countries that are underdeveloped are be defined as: “a nation or sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index relative to other countries” (Wikipedia). These countries suffer because of this in all areas from education to technology and…

Underdevelopment: More Than a State of Mind Student Name: Fujia Wang Student Number: 214122782 Instructor Name: Miguel Gonzalez Course Name: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Words: 1040 In 2010, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake that destroyed land and lives alike, almost wiping clean the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Because of the underdeveloped nature of Haiti at the time of the natural disaster, the country was susceptible to…

dictated by the United State and Great Britain from the beginning and ending of the cold war led to the reason why Africa is undeveloped today. Furthermore, Africa is underdeveloped today as the result of Western Control, Neocolonialism, Corruption and the process that leads to western aid approval and its mismanagement The underdevelopment of Africa is the result of Western interference in African economic, social, and body politics. During the early nineteenth century, Western countries had…

College life is caricatured as endless keg stands and carefree one night stands. Generations of American teens have been raised on Hollywood’s depiction of the college experience: fraternity parties, tailgating at football games, sharing clothes with roommates, studying abroad, and meeting the love of your life through the stacks in the library. This idyllic version of college is not reality. The first college in the United States, Harvard College, was founded in 1636. According to Harvard…

It is generally agreed, that the cause of underdevelopment would be due to the lack of industrialization and therefore the industrialization of a society constitute the solution. Though as time passes by, it seems to indicate that this is not the solution and/or that there are many other causes that prevent industrialization, because development is not achieved by the vast majority of nations. The reasons that can cause and maintain levels of underdevelopment are many and there is no agreement…

To explain, Thompson has identified many possible factors that can be of influence to the Hispanic/Latino underdevelopment in education; she finds that families of these students might be unconvinced of the benefits of achieving a higher education (as cited in Brown pg. 102). Thompson then goes on to quote Tensie Cadenas, who states, “They come from a culture where often education is not as much of a priority” (as qtd. in Brown pg. 102). Therefore, the culture of a Hispanic/Latino student can…

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea employs many different styles that pull from film genres such as documentary, diary, and melodrama within the film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), which is the film adaptation of the novel Inconsolable Memories by Edmundo Desnoes. This multitude of styles helps to produce a film that takes on the task creating tension not only among the characters, but among the different film elements and the viewers as well. The creation of this tension brings into question the notion…

There are many reasons that could explain underdevelopment in Sierra Leone, and for that matter in many African countries with shared experiences and similar backgrounds. The eleven-year civil conflict in Sierra Leone resulted in a large scale devastation of the economy, and of basically everything else in the country. The conflict has been perceived as the most important cause of poverty and underdevelopment in the country today. However, a civil conflict doesn’t just simply boil up out of…

During the 1960s and 1970s two schools of thought took prominence in sociocultural anthropology: development and underdevelopment theory, as well as, the world-systems theory; which, in combination with the key tenets of Marxism laid the foundation of a new critical perspective called anthropological political economy. A precursor to the modern form of “political economy”, referred to now as “classical” political economics, has been dated to the eighteenth century, this later divided into the…