ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eurocentrism, Overlord Ii, Vandana Shiva
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***factual info in textbook etc are there to support arguments you are making**: the thaba-tseka development project. 72 international non government organizatiosn (including cida) this is an example of failed development. 1975 world bank issues a report on lesotho to justify a series of loans to the country. The world bank report puts a specific image of lesotho in our midns even though we havnt ever been there. Ferguson juxtaposes this with an article in the oxford history of south. According to world bank, lesotho was virtually untouched by modern economic development . was and still is a traditional subsistence peasant society . The meaning of lesotho poverty is naturalized in the world bank, the reason for the poverty is given a natural cause (population growth) it is not given a political/social/historical explanation. These people have no history in this particular narrative of lesotho compare this to the narrative that shows the deep involvement in a political community.
