POL201Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Communist Manifesto, European Colonialism, World Trade Organization
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Buy the readings - image xpress (193 college street) this contains all of the course readings that will not be on blackboard! Development: the creation of three hierarchical worlds of development and their salient features, with a focus on the third world . The concept and meaning of development ambiguous, difficult to define; however many agree that development encom- passes change in a variety of aspects of the human condition. What constitutes a good change, however, is debatable. The idea of develop- ment is ideologically driven and is associated with the west (progression, reason, uni- versal modernity, industrialism, capitalism) Harry s. truman"s inaugural address launched the idea of development, to para- phrase: we have the means to help nations not like ours like ours. Development as a long term process of structural societal transformation development as a short-to-medium term outcome of desirable targets development as a dominant discourse of western modernity.
