POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Structural Adjustment, Corporatism, Developmentalism
Economic Inequality and Political Exclusion
●Previously
○Citizenship is both a civic and cultural phenomenon
■Actively constructed and reproduced collective identity
○Collective identity is shaped (among other things)
■History
■Legal regimes
■Religion and language
○Insides and outsides never (only) a simple matter of inclusion/exclusion
■deGenova, Scott: ‘othering’ is a technique used to create and enforce a notion of
the self
●Define a collective identity by defining someone that isn’t us
●Myth of citizenship as a culturally-neutral category
●Fundamental pattern: ‘orientalism’
●Goals
○Inequality takes different forms, serves different functions
■Focus less on absolute poverty and inequality, more on sustained and relative
inequality
○Think about inequality in a structural fashion, not only an individual one
■Not like an individual, sort of bad luck situation. Inequality is a structural
inevitably that makes poor people blame themselves for being poor and punishes
poor people for being poor on a daily basis
■How do differences with roots in the economy shape politics?
○Thinking inequality spatially and temporally
■Between classes
■Between regions
■Between generations
●Baby boomer vs. us, we have very different lifestyles, spend money in
different ways
●Modes of production: fordism
○Assembly line
■intense rationalization, disaggregation to produce more and more cars
■Break down every component into a discreet section of an assembly line. Every
individual stop along the assembly line, something different is happening. More
efficient way of organizing production
■deskilling/routinizing (wage) labor
●Just need somebody that is very good at using certain technological
parts. For example, somebody who is really good at putting a wheel on
the car, or using the electronic screwdriver, etc.
●Break down labor into its constituent parts
■Standardization
■Bigger, mass production
●Because deskilled, routinized, and standardized the production process,
you can make more stuff
●See mass market consumer goods, daily and durable goods, emerging
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Document Summary
Citizenship is both a civic and cultural phenomenon. Collective identity is shaped (among other things) Insides and outsides never (only) a simple matter of inclusion/exclusion. Degenova, scott: othering" is a technique used to create and enforce a notion of the self. Define a collective identity by defining someone that isn"t us. Myth of citizenship as a culturally-neutral category. Inequality takes different forms, serves different functions. Focus less on absolute poverty and inequality, more on sustained and relative inequality. Think about inequality in a structural fashion, not only an individual one. Not like an individual, sort of bad luck situation. Inequality is a structural inevitably that makes poor people blame themselves for being poor and punishes poor people for being poor on a daily basis. Baby boomer vs. us, we have very different lifestyles, spend money in different ways. Intense rationalization, disaggregation to produce more and more cars. Break down every component into a discreet section of an assembly line.
