DEVS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Revolution, Democratic Federation Of Northern Syria, Dimitrios Roussopoulos
4 Apr 2017
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Devs 240 week 12 exam review and guest speaker. Choose 5 out of the 7 terms: give definition in context with development, refer to key authors, use empirical evidence. Old ways of understanding cultures are fundamentally mistaken and lead to bad development outcomes. We need new ways to understand culture to imagine ways out of the rut. Where are opinions and facts coming from. Is erdogan"s turkey sliding into authoritarianism: turkish civic commission sent 10 international people to turkey to find out if. Head of mission was nelson mandela"s judge in south africa. Did not meet objectives but learned a lot: non-turks showed interest to come to turkey and search for facts was psychologically important for turkey, send a delegation again in 2017, dimitri interested in turkey because. They are the only people in the world with no on country or government. Have created new societies in north eastern syria. Rojava (4 600 000 people: extraordinary experiment .
