POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Frantz Fanon, Civil Society, Conditional Cash Transfer
11 Dec 2015
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Last weeks review: civil society organizations (csos): All organizations and citizens activity that operates between the individual and the state: non governmental organizations (ngos): Provide services with the withdrawal of the state. Many are international: social investment fund: Started as emergency measure (ended up permanent feature) Social capital: set of associations between people and government consisting of social networks and associated norms (associated with sifs) Conditional cash transfer programs (ccts): provide cash to (female) heads of households in exchange for certain conditions. Microfinance: banking services that are provided to unemployment or low- income individuals or groups who would otherwise have no other means of gaining financial service. Key themes and concepts: expansion of europe: trade and colonial rule (this expansion re- shaped the politics of global south countries) Franz fanon (people that was educated in the west colonial. Political independence, but control from the outside continues: ideas) (importance of understanding colonial ruling: main actors:
