HUMA 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, Structural Change, Ethnocentrism
17 Jul 2016
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Development is dominant trope of first/ third world relations. The four geographical areas that have traditionally constituted the 3rd world are: latin. America [from mexico to the southern tip of south america] & the caribbean; south. East asia; sub-saharan africa; middle east and north africa. [south pacific island nations]: development as an historical and long-term process, as an unintentional process. Liberation of people through structural transformation -- development" as a process of change. Development means changes in socio economic structures, change in one area affects changes in other areas of the social. This perspective on development is not necessarily related to intentional or good" change. In some cases development involves decline, crisis and other problematic situations but all of this can be accommodated within this wide perspective of socio-economic change. Despite its generally non-prescriptive nature it resonates with meta- narratives [big over arching stories with grand visions of societal transformations: development as an intentional activity [value-laden] prescriptive.
