SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Civil Society, Neoliberalism, Think Tank
8 Oct 2013
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With few esources, they were able to build a city. Development is a highly contested field- no consensus. Not much agreement among researchers, policy makers about: what constitutes development, what the goals of development should be, the means to get to the goal. Problems and solutions are not agreed upon. Development is about power relations: it reflects interests, normative assumptions about human being. How we should interact with nature: how one country controls another. Groups in conflict, countries and regions with different strategic interests, relations of exploitations where resources are siphoned off, truncated opportunities for development. Always being history into what development is. E. g. globalization from above, globalization from below (transition to second term) Markets are the main factor of economic development. Little involvement of the state: civil society: social movement: people emphasize importance about thinking about development from below. An unintentional process: e. g. broad processes of historical transformation, e. g. colonialism, development of capitalism, emergence of globalization.
