SOCY1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Amartya Sen, Capability Approach, Megacity
Lecture 9 - 09/05 - The Global South and Megacities
The Global South
Three worlds (1st, 2nd - Soviet Bloc, 3rd)
Developed and underdeveloped/developing
Global North (developed) and Global South (developing)
Poverty is not just economic - famine, lack of shelter, low life expectancy, education,
preventable diseases, inequalities (e.g. gender roles) etc.
Development
modernisation theories
it was in everyones interest to have poorer countries participating as free market
actors
expands source of raw materials and markets
Development = ability to take part in the free market
Neoliberalism - idea that a free market is the solution
However:
free markets are rarely free
Domination by western multinationals and institutions
Culturally and socially inappropriate
caused poor countries to become dependent
ties to Western economic interests
a furthering of colonialism
Post Development
underdeveloped is a demeaning discourse
much foreign aid advances the interests of the donor or imposes inappropriate
models of development
a move to grassroots, participatory, and community initiatives
Capability Approach
Amartya Sen: the expansion of human freedom should be the primary end and
principal means of development
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Document Summary
Lecture 9 - 09/05 - the global south and megacities. Three worlds (1st, 2nd - soviet bloc, 3rd) Poverty is not just economic - famine, lack of shelter, low life expectancy, education, preventable diseases, inequalities (e. g. gender roles) etc. Development modernisation theories it was in everyones interest to have poorer countries participating as free market actors expands source of raw materials and markets. Development = ability to take part in the free market. Neoliberalism - idea that a free market is the solution. Amartya sen: the expansion of human freedom should be the primary end and principal means of development. Megacities city with a pop. greater than 1 mil mostly in the global south. What is a slum? (cid:1684)informal housing(cid:1685) characterised by: lack of reliable tenure - built on land not owned by those occupying the slum lack of govt. services and utilities - water, power, sanitation makeshift housing surrounded by stigma.
