Sociology 2228A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Nationalism, Global Exchange, Industrial Technology
10 Apr 2020
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Development" emerged as a comparative construct, in context of european colonization of the non-european world. Colonial administrators had to manage subject populations adjusting to the extractive economy and mono-cultures, administering colonial rule for their masters, and experiencing physical and psychic displacement. Colonialism: subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another (colonizing power) through military and economic conquest of territory and stereotyping the subordinated cultures. Idea among europeans was that non-european native people (colonial subjects) were. This was a powerful misrepresentation which devalued cultures and appears frequently throughout history. Indigenous people europeans argued that indigenous people had no right to property (land) because they didn"t work" the land. Precolonial africa people had ancestral ecological knowledge to sustain themselves using their environment. European colonists thought the people were only occupying, not improving or utilizing the land. Europeans viewed themselves as bringing civilization to the nonwhite races.
