DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Determinism, Edward Said, Deconstruction

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: Scott Rutherford

Document Summary

Post-development: for post-development scholars, representation matters it enables the production of a social reality: during the imperial era travellers, missionaries, & government officials created narratives of non-europeans that showed them as being backwards savages. Stuart hall studies: cultural theorist, believed representation was important in post-development, an object"s meaning is not inherent rather it is constructed. , language stands for objects, people, and processes. , language helps us communicate and share concepts. Depoliticization (james ferguson): a social practice that silences any expression of the true political nature of the european colonial projects. Development (arturo escobar): an apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the third world with forms of power & intervention. Resulting in the mapping & production of third world countries. Hegemonic development theory: analyses how we think about the role of the state & development institutions in economic & political processes.