R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Moses Coady, Vandana Shiva, International Development
31 May 2016
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Doing community development- a few exemplars from the last century. Great people who have been involved in social movement- somewhat still with us today. E. f. schumacher: critique of western economy focused on human-scaled development: development as if humans matter (ex. appropriate technology) Involved in doing critical analysis of the 1970s. Wrote a book called small is beautiful : it is deemed 1 of the 100 most influential book during the world war. Ngo formed in response to him, and is called intermediate techonolgy , examples: the floating garden, clay pot , transportation. Focused on scale, like the scale of development, and the appropriate technology that can be used. Became personally under poverty trained as a lawyer and a . Famous for community organizing: the father of community organizing in the united states. He is the founder of a chicago base that promotes social change within inner city chicago during the time of industrial revolution.
