INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pathos, Dublin Regulation, Forced Migration

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Human progress, rationalism, modernity (both goal and process) Uneven power relation = center-periphery relations, post-colonial relations. Gap between what is said and reality. Top-down, paternalistic manner (lack of knowledge of social, political local issues) Continuation of domination by west in non-western world: underdeveloped and developed. Lack of health protections and facilities (high maternal and infant mortality rates) Modern public health facilities (low mortality rates) Political connotation deeply related to emergence of newly independent countries (outdated term) Pre-1945 (war): no concern for non-western world, primitive, peripheral. Cold war political context : western capitalism (1st world) vs. soviet communism (2nd world) Term initially highlighted political divisions and inequalities offered prospect of new type of politic that did not take either side. Widening gap between rich and poor countries. New realities : widening gap between emerging economies (brics) and stagnating economies (primarily african countries) Ecological imperialism; foreign pathogens wiped of 90% of native americans.