SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Participatory Democracy, Neoliberalism, Informal Sector
3 Oct 2016
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Development is a highly contested eld - no consensus - development as progress, development as economic growth, etc. Not much agreement among researchers, poly markers, about: The means to get to the goal. Problems and solutions are not agreed upon. Groups in con ict, countries and regions with different strategic interests, relations of exploitation where resources are siphoned off, truncated opportunities for development. Eg. globalization from above (capitalist driven economic forces, neoliberal globalization), globalization from below (civil society organizations, social movements) No agreement as to who should be the main forces driving development processes; 3 actors. State - many countries developed because their states carried out important policies, regulated policies, de ned long term goals. Neoliberal policy - markets, rather than states asserted to be primary force. Civil society/social movements - people emphasize importance about thinking about development from below. Globalization(s): multiple scales, actors, a process in the making. Ways to consider development: an unintentional process.
