GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Subaltern Studies, Postdevelopment Theory, Eurocentrism
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Geog 102
Cultural Geography
Spring 2017
Globalization and Third World Perspectives
○ Post colonial theory
○ Post-development theory
■ Maybe development is a bad idea in first
■ Question wheter development is what we should be trying to achieve
Post-Prefixed theories (of development)
○ Post modernism
○ Post structuralism
○ Post colonialism
○ Post development
○ Creating space for all kinds of local perspective and practices to emerge
Forberas
○ Fanon
■ Being located in the third world and not being white has fundamental
problems for realizing goals
○ Illich
■ Western education is bad for people ein the third world
■ Teach our values and not what is locally appropriate
■ Not solution to helping people in the third world
Post-Colonial Theory
○ Emerges initially out of India
○ Guha
■ Living in independent India
■ Try to transform india from colony to industrial power
■ Newly independent leaders had very negative attitude toward average peasent;
needed to be civilized, seen as dumb, same attitude colonizers had
■ But peasents were not being transformed into modern citizens, resisting that
■ Subaltern studies group: maybe we need to learn something from peasents
rather than assume they need to be modernized
■ When they speak, we cannot hear what they say because we live in very
different worlds; need to take seriously and learn these perspectives, very
difficult to do
○ Chakravorty: by creating stages of development, thinking of it this way, we are
devaluing countries that haven’t achieved that goal, instead of looking at difference,