INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Geopolitics, Eurocentrism, Social Darwinism

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

Document Summary

Colonialism was a form of normaive dominance over colonized people by colonisers. Rupert _______: colonialism as imposiion of white rule on alien peoples, signiicant dispariies in power, impediment to peace, denial of fundamental human rights, a crime against humanity. Hegemony: arbitrary imposiion of power and cohesive authority. Colonial legacies: long lasing efects (poliical, economic, social, cultural, etc. ) of colonialism on contemporary developing countries. Post-colonial variaions: both posiive and negaive economic impacts of colonial legacies. There is wide variaion between the level of development of former colonies across the globe (for example, diference between sudan and singapore). State imposes poliical economic and cultural systems on another territory, may encourage setlement. Uneven power relaions between the colonizer and colonized. Impacts of colonialism: strong ies between former colonies and colonizers, exploitaion of resources, discouraged modern industrializaion, dependency. Early colonialism: most focused on coasts and port ciies. Economic beneits for imperial powers bc it allowed them to transport goods, communicaion, etc.