INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mahmood Mamdani, Cultural Hegemony, Coruscant

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

Document Summary

Key variables to explain the variation in development: history: colonial legacies in post-colonial societies, role of the state: keynesianism, modernization of economy: modernization theory, role of free markets: neoliberalism. International division of labour: dependency theory (unequal trade relations) What are the forms of hegemony: what are the institutions of power (b. anderson, should colonialism be blamed for post-colonial violence andethnic. Social darwinism: significance of colonial technologies, cont"d . Key words: colonial legacies, colonial technology. Institutions of power: direct and indirect rule, social darwinism, scramble for africa, census, politicized ethnic identity, post-colonial variation. The imposition of white rule on alien peoples inhabiting lands separated by salt water from the imperial center (rupert emerson 1969: hegemony. Colonial contact marked the beginning of history for those societies, since colonialism was presumed to have animated them culturally, economically, and politically (mahmood mamdani 2001) Colonialism: key goals: establishing hegemony in economic, political, cultural, and social reforms.