IDST 1000Y Study Guide - Final Guide: Christian Mortalism, Edward Said, Ecosystem Services
11 Apr 2015
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Good governance: world banks criteria: accountability, political stability and absence of. Violence, government effectiveness, rule of law, control of corruption, regulatory. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations: explained conflict through culture and civilizations. Orientalism (1978): edward said, deconstructed many commonplace assumptions about the orient, people outside of the west are outsiders they become others. European powers and of the u. s: ties in to ethnocentrism. **ethnocentrism: the belief in the superiority of one"s own culture, judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one"s own culture, exclusive knowledge. It"s the philosophical notion that all cultural beliefs are equally valid and that truth itself is relative, depending on the cultural environment.
