GEOG 352 Study Guide - Final Guide: Local Economic Development, Economic Globalization, Social Economy
Document Summary
Globalization and social exclusion in cities: framing the debate with lessons from africa and asia. It provides a way of understanding the relational and institutional dynamics that serve to include some and keep others out in a connected but polarized global economic context. As such, it is an analytical construct compatible with the study of global economic processes and the poverty and inequality to which they increasingly give rise. The answer has to be yes to the extent that the concept of social exclusion implies a focus on the causes of poverty and inequality as well as on the outcomes, and encourages the exploration of macro-micro linkages. However, in practice, application of the social exclusion perspective in the context of development cooperation has largely given rise to a reformist rather than a transformationalist policy agenda. This is not least because social inclusion is offered as an alternative to social exclusion.
