ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Houseplant, Wage Labour
Document Summary
The thaba-tseka development project: 5 key ideas about progress & development. Surely nature is natural: class activity : my houseplant, video second nature. Painting a picture of ppl w/o history lesotho: 1) ignore what they cannot chang. Not resource poor (natural and historical) but resource exploited (politics and history) Resources have been exploited and depleted by neighboring south africa, they have been confiscated of the most fertile land. Wage labor exploitation in south african mines ( worked in horrendous conditions) Ferguson quote this reason, agriculture concerns tend to move center stage and lesotho is portrayed as a nation of farmers . Cannot be identifies as the cause of the problems because they do not have the power to change it: ignore what they cannot understand. Complex, differentiated state & people, multiple things you have to take into account if you try to undergo a development intervention.
