IAFF 6101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1: Risk Society, Ethnocentrism, Global Governance
12 May 2016
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Changes: weakening neoliberalism and us hegemony, greater south-south relations, economic instability of us, obscurity of the washington consensus. History: preludes to development in 1800s, catch-up policies mid-19th 20 th century, postwar. Modernity is no longer an obvious goal (tech change, value of local culture and diversity) Theory critique, revision and summation of past knowledge in form of general proposition and fusion of diverse views and partial knowledges in general framework. Knowledge is political and shapes reality (theory practice) Development theory should be understood in both political context and social science influence. Development organized intervention in collective affairs according to a standard of improvement (3) -> problem-driven, not theory-driven. Conventional distinction of the developed and the developing is becoming obscure. Meaning of development (field of hegemony and counter-hegemony) 19th century england: remedies for shortcomings of progress such as population, job loss, social question, and urban squalor (contrast of progress) Modern days: economic growth -> modernization/nation building.
