ANTC10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unilineality, General Idea, Invisible Hand
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It is not a tool: discourse structures reality and they way the world works. The development lens: multiple and variable definitions, general idea and specific aspect, despite its variable meanings development provides a stable framework for the west to relate to the rest. It can incorporate so many things, give people"s choices: our interest is not in development as a thing but development as an organizing concept, an ideology, a discourse. Universal progress: development relies on a particular idea of progress, linear and unilineal, progress = primitive civilized, other words for primitive, underdeveloped, 3rd world, south, uneducated, other words for civilized, developed, 1st world, north, educated. In unilienal there are no other options: not everyone thought being poor meant being underdeveloped, creates a binary: primitive/civilized. It"s a result of western history: we arrived and decided they needed help, structured on this notion of progress, monty python constitutional peasants scene. Part 2: two development dilemmas: enlightenment: age of reason.
