INTD 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hegemony, Micro Instrumentation And Telemetry Systems, Civil Society

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Political, economic, and social impact of colonialism on contemporary developing countries. Colonial legacies create variations in post-colonial economic and political outcomes. Colonialism has created structural foundation of post-colonial states. Shadow of previous institutions = shape development in post-colonial states. Explain the variation in industrialization among developing countries on the basis of colonial legacies (atul kohli) Explains the roots of post-colonial violence= political legacies, institutionalization of group boundaries (mamdani) Another argument by mamdani says that post-colonial violence, it"s main cause what because of the political legacy of colonialism. Political legacy of colonial violence means that institutionalization of group identity creating a boundary between groups thus creating con icts. Systems= bureaucracy, education, police, immigration, customs, taxation, law system. Technologies= steam power (steamship, railway system, machinery), map, census, museum, printing technologies. Roles of modern technologies in colonialism: legitimization of colonialism. Institutionalization of identity (census), borders (maps), history (museum), and traditions (laws: colonial inheritance: crucial foundation of post-colonial states.