GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neoliberalism, Creative Destruction, Resource Management
10 Aug 2020
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Societies choose to fail or survive through poor individual or group decision making (failure to anticipate, to perceive, to act, to succeed) Modern societies are highly globalised (hyperconnectyed) meaning that individual communities, states of societies cannot fail in isolation (e. g. eu bailouts) Contrary position is that true collapse is extremely rare, most are apparent rather than real. Societal resilience is the rule rather than the exception. Criticism of the assumption of self-interested motivation is our decisions made in past societies (self-interest does not apply in all cultures, neoliberalist view) Resource management decisions in the past (pre-industrial) were constrained by technology and communication, making it fundamentally different. Human communities characterised by persistence and transformation rather than truncation and extinction/extirpation. Yes things change ad they change profoundly, but more often elements of society retain their basic structure and function within longer cycles of change (mcanany and yoffee, 2010)
