Authors Flashcards
Unit 1 Hopper (2018)
Economic Growth theory: Keynesianism
Modernization theory: western model od development - liberal capitalist values, economic growth to become “modern”
Structuralism
Dependency theory
Neoliberalism: privatization, deregulation, fiscal austerity, financial liberalization, currency devaluation, minimal role of state, SAPs
Unit 1 Sen (2002)
Globalization: process through trade, travel, spread of cultural influence, migration, knowledge
Not only Western, global heritage
The question is not whether the poor benefit or not but if they get their fair share
Capitalism only concerned with expanding the market - nothing else
Unit 1 Hickel (2019)
SDGs contradict each other when they demand economic growth and sustainability at the same time
Global North does not need further growth
Link between eradication of hunger and growth is misleading
Unit 2 Hopper
Americanization
Mcdonaldization
Westernization
Development is Euro-centric
Post-development
Sen: economics far from value-free: European rationalist thought
Non-Western world portrayed as trying to “catch-up” (also Hickel 2021)
Fanon (1965)
Colonialism in Algeria
Stereotypes of the colonized
Fight of France to further exploit people and land
Unit 2 Hickel (2021)
North is responsible for excess use of resources and affluence comes from exploitation of Southern people and environment
Degrowth is about decolonization
Degrowth needed to scale down energy demand and output
Individual not responsible- system creates inequality and ecological breakdown
Dependency-theory - “catch-up” impossible
Unit 2 Mawdsley (2019)
SSC has grown, SSC 3.0 since 2015
More cooperation, more complex relations, differing interests
SSC often was in context of shared colonial or post-colonial experiences and identity
Unit 2 Pailey (2019)
The white gaze:
White fragility + racial contract
Whiteness is the universal standard against that everyone and everything is measured
Local people and experience often excluded in development process
Frame justifies white privilege and domination
Power concedes nothing without a demand
Racist hierarchy in development
E.g. in development agencies
Racism not discussed
Examples: skin-colour, face-recognition software
Unit 3 Hopper
SAPs,
GATT/WHO
IMF, WB
Participatory development
NGOs
Economic order shaped by the West in their favour and to their advantage
Unit 3 Chandhoke (2013) (she)
Realizing Justice
No link between growth and lessening od inequalities
Justice through global civil society activism
Who can achieve it remains open
Democratic state only institution that the poor or their representatives can address
Unit 3 Hass et al.
China’s Belt and Road project
Unit 3 Oxfam (2022)
Report on gobal inequality
Inequality kills - health care access for poor ppl limited
Extreme inequality is economic violence
Unit 4 Hopper
People in low and middle income countries suffer more from lifestyle diseases and preventable deaths
Education is important
Unit 4 Büyüm et al. (2020)
Covid affects the marginalized/ poor more - inequality
Current health system inadequate to address structural violence
Structural violence - global, regional and local systems of oppression
Widens inequality by discriminating policies and racist patterns
Decolonize health to uproot health inequality and power-imbalances
Paradigm/leadership/knowledge shift
Unit 4 Nauta & Stranihova (2012)
Philantrocapitalism - strategies of international capitalism to affect positive change - business thinking + philanthropy
Structural violence - refers to current global and political order (Zizek calls it fundamental systemic violence of capitalism)
AIDS In SSA linked to poverty and inequality and neoliberalism
Expolitative North - South relations
Idea spread that AIDS has sth to do with Africa and blackness itself - racism as Pailey describes
