IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Millennium Development Goals, Niall Ferguson, Kappa Publishing Group
26 Nov 2012
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Idsa01 wednesday september 22, 2010 lecture 2. Objectives: understanding the power of language and words in shaping behaviour around the world. Linking normative view with policy making: look at the historical roots of how we came to view development today. How do ideas get selected, have impact on our lives etc: understand underdevelopment. How was this invented by social construct: uncovering the assumptions of the dominant view and argue why alternatives are not only possible, but necessary. Really the questions that we will be asking throughout this term. The social construction of ideas: word matters. We see things through representation, metaphor, conceptual inflation. War on terrorism, evil actions, weapons of mass destruction. Metaphor: people who are dead, collateral damage. We see something and critic it subjectively, not objectively: measurement matters. But need to know why and what to measure. Life"s satisfaction is never measured (volunteering makes me happy) Progress : unfolding stages that is accepted by all.
