POLB91H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Civil Society
B91 final exam review
1. What’s the solutio for aoidig state plaed deelopet disasters? lecture 7
2. How does urban planning/spatiality affect social movement today? (also lec 7)
3. What do you think makes one state led-deelopet succeed hile others fail?
Answer to 1
- Democratise
- Local knowledge
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- Mindful and specific policies
- Legibility
- Simplification
- Seeing like a state
Answer to 2
- Can encourage or discourage social movements
- Movements done in metropolitan areas like Toronto bc space
- Can also repress tho
Answer to 3
- Hidden agendas
- Ulterior motives
- Dependency on another state as opposed to a mutual relationship
- Civil society (top down or top up)
- History → colonialist and imperialist ideologies are still in play today. Related to
exploitation and dependency
- China and Africa example ********
3 major questions (group activity)
1. What’s the solution for avoiding state planned development disasters?
Thesis: the solution would be to adopt a democratic form of governance that empowers civil
society and values local knowledge and legibility
Recipe of disaster:
•Administrative ordering of nature and society → take local knowledge into
consideration
•High modernist ideology: planned social order → Scott: science and technical processes
will lead to maximum productivity but it’s dangerous to overvalue these things
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