POL 4178 Lecture Notes - Global Justice Movement, Economic Nationalism, Statism
20 Mar 2014
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Throughout the book, the environmental aspect will be highlighted by mcmicheal with the various project of rule. It"s important to understand social and political transformation through the nexus of power relations and "development": when change happens it"s a configuration of powers. To order/structure the world and contain opposition, supposedly for the benefit of everyone, but a critical analysis reveals narrow benefit & hidden costs. They create tensions whom undermine the ability of the project itself: resistances aren"t always from the bottom but sometimes from corporations themselves to try and free capital and stop state intervention. Postworld war ii development era of market regulation, social democracy, welfare statism, contain labour a d decolonization movement + cold war context of military and economic aid to "third world". Talked about the shift from free market ideas to regulation as a result of the. Great depression which is a result of "fictitious" economic commodities such as private land and ressources.
