INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consumerism, Human Development Index, Uncontacted Peoples

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Darin Barney

Document Summary

Macro picture: lecture outline: gdp fetishism: reliance on gdp as a measure of wealth/growth. Provide freedom (3 methodologies: very important in development) Who is developing: question conventions and assumptions of development. 3 assumptions in development measurement: teleological implication attached to developing/developed library, division between developed vs developing: binary, homogenization of the south, generalization, oversimplification, gdp fetishism: overreliance on gdp: sole living standard measure, income country measures. Labeling and teleological implications: third world, developed vs developing, developing: positive to under-developed or third world , terms entail static and changing implications, but a binary relationship is created between the poor and rich. It is a dynamic aspect of development actually: not as simple just to categorize into 2 classes. End goal: become developed or modern: assumption that a country should follow same pathway as developed countries, unidirectional idea. In order to achieve end goal: method is to disseminate modern technology.