DEVS 100 Final: Global development semester 2 exam review
6 Oct 2015
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This is emphasized in western individualist cultures, that we need a significant amount of money and income to be happy and live a fulfilling life. Marshal plan us poured money into european recovery after wwii. Rise of alternatives such as socialism and nationalism. Growth of aid agencies: 1980"s-90"s-end of cold war and rise of neoliberalism. Specialization and privatization increase: 2000"s onwards. Rise of multi-polarity again (bric"s brazil, russia, india, china) Rise of sub and supra national agencies. Rising uncertainty around meaning and methods of development: non-alignment movement: movement to organize third world countries bandung conference. Decolonization: why did it happen, political and moral pressures in the north. The example of disney and how it is colonizing people"s minds and enforcing masked and marked examples of asymmetries in power gender stereotypes, subliminal racial messaging. Constructed by political and ideological consensus of those who have capital and power.
