Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: United Nations Economic And Social Council, Rights-Based Approach To Development, Amartya Sen
17 Dec 2017
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Problamatizing the human rights discourse: wielding the discourse, post colonial implications, politics vs. ethics, the agency of the victim, power relations matter. Human rights, democracy, development: relationships, politics, mdgs. There is a distance between development and human rights = tension between civil and political rights. Human rights and development: 1950s 60s = macro economic terms, modernization theory. Modernization theory = all countries will move to a certain point of modernization. The end point of all human development is liberal capitalist democracy: 1970s multi disciplinary, dependency theory. Dependency theory = capitalism ruined the other countries, the goal was to make developing countries dependent on them. Developed world needs the developing world one can not exist without the other. There goal was to change things = they just showed how the world was, not how they liked it though: 1980s neoliberal, free market, deregulation. This will lead to development for all = free flow of money.
