GGRC10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Discourse Analysis, Himalayas, American Imperialism
17 Oct 2015
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Lec 04 the project of development (ggrc10) Truman"s speech: we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve suffering of these people. 3rd world is made through power of representation. Development discourse they/we are underdeveloped we need to develop: escobar offers us a discourse analysis of development. What is discourse: certain way of thinking of world, it becomes nature/dominant thinking, creates problems. The idea of development has discourse b/c a particular idea of a city doesn"t work for every part of world.
