ARTSSCI 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Imperialism, Structural Adjustment, Walt Whitman Rostow
10 Jan 2017
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Responses to these questions drive change efforts and themselves have socio-political ramification. Millennium development goals / sustainable development goals. Max-neef"s matrix needs as an interrelated & interactive system (vs. hierarchy); multiple poverties. We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. Rostow"s stages of growth (rostow 1960: traditional society, preconditions for take-off, take-off, drive to maturity, age of high mass consumption. Implies a linear progress & linear view of history. Association of a particular social model with progress . Many have critiqued aid-based models of development for reproducing existing power imbalances: nkrumah on aid as revolving credit , paternalism & constructed difference. But if we colonize, it is not just for selfish reasons and for our own advantage only. The benefit accrues to both the protector and the protected.
