General Flashcards
Devel theories, strategies, ideologies
Post-WW2 - establshment of new world order
Hettne 1995
2 competing models of MDS - US intensive urban growth - tech etc.
SU - soviet pol induced grwoth - agri collec, indep of glecon
The geopolitics of US spreading capitalism
Westad
MDS theory - assessed and brought to bear on systemc improvement of wealth welfare
instrumental-rational approach
Technocratic, optimistic, modernist
Science and tech mastery of nature
Adams 2001
What is good for US is good for the rest of the world
Frank 1997
Perez and Soete
Critiques of ‘take-off’ model and MDS
Dependency theory
Potter et al. 2004
Critiques of dependency theory
Mahutga
The Green revolution
Khush
Problems with green revolution
Falcon
Dams and irrigation
Adams 2001
Critique of dependency theory
Quiet on qs of identity and diffs but focused on structure of econ and dep
Scott
NL model
Beck 2000, Brenner and Theodore
Transnat resistance, resistance to NL
Anti capitaist - bad consequences of chain and affect
Bound into market universally
Houtard
alternative forum - World Social Forum
Focus on S/3W network
Ainger
N-S Linkage
Katz
Resistance over devel - global geopol from below.
Struggle over RSs
Opposing corporate action and TNCs
Routledge
Hell of PC countries entered in last 30 years were almost always justified by well-intentioned modernizers
Both liberal and communists also believed they knew best for lands
Gilman
Post - colonialise geog
Sharp
Pol geog and IR as state-centric
Require ^ engagement with complex and rich experiences of places rather than technical, managerialist pol machine
Ferguson
Assump A does not have meaningful pol, only humanit disasters
Need to postcolonialise geog
Dunn
Post-development
Escobar
Pov becomes an organizing concept - econ devel indicators. Big D devel = post-WW2 project of intervention
Diving world into spatial zones according to econ wealth
2 SPs established their own alliances
NAM brought together maj of 3W - voting bloc within UN collective identity
Emergence of new pol - sending global pol into flux
Potter et al. 2008
Ontologically claims Wester identities are based on the antagonistic perception of social diffs - self/other, N/S
Such idents aren’t culturally determined but purposively constructed
Fabricates sense of liminality within W nation
Bhahba 1983
Eroding W-centric - dom of W in framing terms and content of devel debate - being eroded
X W devel paradigm
Econ rise of E.g. BRICs
I’s service-based, high-tech oriented econ growth doesn’t follow W econ devel
Rise of BRICs as paradigm
Six
Global pol transformation - multipolar internat devel comm
Shaw et al.
Unravel dualistic thinking - ANT
Latour 2010
Media has become metaphorically colonial
Powerful ability to exclude certain knowledges
Ojo
Global devels and the ‘WoT’after 9/11, takes of pov and TSM - P’s New Map
Sec-devel nexus (Duffield)
Aid linked to sex objectives
Ensuring WoT led by states self-defined as the ‘free’ or ‘civilized’
Just as devel once seen as X comm spread
Duffield
geopol of aid and internat devel
Way S states seen lack necess degrees of ‘order’ - hierarchy and societal org
Assumps about nature of states in S - countries framed by discourses of e.g. US TSM
Sogge
‘Soft-power diplomacy
Popular with a partners
Currency of co-option and attraction, values
Weakened monop of W donors over A devel
Wilson
Neither C crops nor C gov done anything to benefit TUs of soc justice
Palat
New ‘S’ donors question idea of devel coop as a W concept
Questions whole devel paradigm
Prod of geopol images and discourses by global aid agencies
Construction of devel narratives
Aid agencies campaigns include reps that narrate global disparities between regions
They are space-reducing practices
Their reps play huge role in conjuring up spaces like developing world reps
Struver
S-S coop - alternative to W devel model
Wrenching global relations into flux
Shaw et al.
Dehumanizing practices in GW
Muscati
First televised war, media control of GW
Trainor
Censoring for pol sec - press censorship or sec measures
Schanberg
GW North
Ismail
GW South
Pentagon Defence Dept. Expert 1998
Admin of vaccines flawed
Antidotes for bio or nerve-gas weapons
Not been approved by US food and drug admin
‘informed consent not given’
Sev US veterans ‘testimones’ say invol admin of vaccines
Without proper med supervision
HofC Defence SC 1995
EJ and environ justice
Cole and Foster
Politicall charged Environment Justice
Bullard
EJ combines equity of social, generational and prodedural
Cutter
Noxious pollutants - NBDs important
Sze 2006
Cult constructs - nations
Study of noxious pollutants shows how resids have found shared identity
Acted as pol agents due to fact = victimes of environ racism
Share imagined comm
Anderson 1991
Idle no more
McGaa
Love Canal
Levine
Indiv devel and environ protection = heart of environ agenda
Taylor
Precautionary principle
O’Riordan
India - Coca Cola
Hills and Welford
Geopolitics of media
Barnes and Duncan
Discourses of media
Derrida
Media is not the truth
Regimes of truth and knowledge been prod
Constructed through representational practices -> binaries
Remain widely circulated and accepted
Said
Pol contexts of environ news - media colonialsm
Hall
Cultural studies - emphasise importance of understanding way human subjects prod in society
Marxist theory played ^ role:
Emphasis on ideology and hegemony and issue-attention cycle in rise and fall of pub concerns for partic issues
Downs
Media role in cult pol
Right to talk about cult pol of the environ
Diff groups struggle over meanings and values of environ
Mass media ^ role to play - ability to shrink time and space
Abstract - terra incognitae - now v real - ‘here’ and ‘there’
Burgess
CC - media rep
Partic perspective
CC as imperializing force
Moral econ
Livingstone
Are Nat Disasters socially constructed
Hansen
Claims-making on CC - rarely localized in space or time
Environ knowledge is dammed by ‘disaster’ in terms of news worthy sensationalism
Anthropog CC invented and perpetuated for finan/ideology reasons -> devel nat pols to decrease CO2 and join internat negot to decrease CO2
Weingart et al.
Free trade and WTO - Met with v criticism especc from develings - need checks and balances Not level field Econ skewed towards N Econs flooded with cheaper W goods
Kapstein 2006
Alternative trade - coops
Worker owned entities rather than share held -> ‘spaces of hope’
‘Proliferative econ’ - customer satisfaction highest as workers want to max profit
Gibson-Graham 1994
Beneftis of fair trade
Goodman
Priorities of alternaternative approach to sust devel
Dacison et al.
Political concept - SD not orig intended as econ terms
Remains pol objectives
More like ‘SJ’ and ‘demo’ with emancipatory goals
Brundtmen - now more economistic - has lost its critical edge
Jacobs
Sustainable devel - asking the imposs?
If SJ genuninely offered tangible synergies between econ, environ and soc objectives
an implementation deficit’d be surprising
Owen and Cowell
Sustainable devel from below
Clemencon 2012
Post-Col criticisms
Dirlick
Mimicry, theft, pillage, accum by disposs
EU is the creation of the 3W - the wealth that smothers it is stolen from the S
Fanon 1967
Sustainable devel is creatively ambiguous so can be used in all pol ways
Mitchell
