SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, International Development
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Is a neo-colonial enterprise and acts to perpetuate the inequalities created by colonialism (answer: does not take into account classical economic theories, all of the above. Uoft statement on its location on aboriginal land. Canadian governments have apologized for past injustices against aboriginal peoples (residential schools etc) Understanding the historical relationship b/w colonialism and the idea of development. Context matters - ideas arise from complex social and political milieu (product of its time) Ideas evolve - often difficult to break from outdated ideas. World split (west vs russia, and remaining third world) Many 3rd world countries were former colonies, this is the case in latin. Separation into global north and global south. Growth of global north often dependent on resources from global south. Shipped out to north, become high end commodities (expensive chocolates, starbucks coffee etc) Continue to be colonized economically if not politically. Arturo escobar, highly critical of development studies, sees it as a form of.
