SOC354H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: European Colonialism, Division Of Labour, Economic Nationalism
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The development project as a prelude to modern globalization : This cultural mosaic underlines modern expressions of race, ethnicity, and nationality generalizing ethnopolitical tensions that shape rational politics across the world today and question the modern ideal of the secular state. The un universal declaration of human right (1948) represented a paradigm of fundamental human rights. It included citizenship rights to the social contract. This mutual propensity of city and countryside prescribes an ideal version. The export of this developmental model of capital-intensive industrial farming has defined agricultural modernization and the ride of the third. World in the era of decolonization, the world subdivided into three geopolitical segments. Wwii, dividing the capitalist western (first world) from the communist soviet (second world). Third world included the postcolonial bloc of nations in this era, the us was the most powerful state economically, militarily and ideologically the second world was considered the alternative to first world capitalism: development/modernity became the discursive benchmark.
