POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Edward Said, Statism
11 Nov 2013
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To challenge western views: on the construction of the third world. Without colonialism the third world would have not existed, if european colonial powers had not gone to colonize. Before colonialism asia, africa and the americas had their own political institutions in place; as a result of colonialism brought all of these societies together. Imposed political/cultural institutions and created a unified world. The creation of development and underdevelopment as a result of: on isolation. To claim that lack of development is due to contact makes no sense if we are going to take at value much of what dependency theory claims: on people s without history . European went to civilize people who had no history . People were underdeveloped because they were isolated; Colonialism is there to prove that this an arguable point to make; Anthropologist europe and people without history .
