GEOG 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Food Politics, Food Waste, Waste Management
Document Summary
Urban governance and political transformation in the global south. Defining urban politics: small p not democracy or formal state-driven processes, could be ngos, urban farming and sustainability, multiple fragmented spaces. Idea of class drives up the price of land in specific area. Decentralization and governance: only powerful when we act as a group (in mass) = separating the state from the economy, state = keeping the economy going while ignoring other aspects of society. Crisis of capitalism 1980s: weakening of the welfare state, decentralization, state restructuring, political, economic. Imbalance in resources and powers (miraftab 2004: realm of the market expands, harvey (2005) and accumulation by dispossession, the capital accum. Positive ngo experience: microfinance place in india: very small loans to people given by bank (kiva. org and. Grammar: use small loans to start a business, easily able to pay off, sparc: group of women in garment industry got funding to start ngo.
