SOSC 1430 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chipko Movement, Amartya Sen, Democratic Consolidation

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1430
• Professor: Miguel Gonzalez

Document Summary

Any transformation in society is a political process. 1990s - human-rights vocabulary became familiar in international debate and policy prescriptions - but took a hit after 9/11. Movements in the south have been organizing a new politics of active resistance to the standard development model. Anti-world poverty agenda has reemerged in the north. Development launched - context was geo-political - enable newly independent countries to embrace economic progress and bind them into alliance with the west. Aid packages based on many considerations other than need - building of strategic trading partnerships - but not seen as political - nancial. Few considered poverty reduction would be a highly political process. Imf/world bank and un - bound not to interfere in internal politics of sovereign member states - not taking sides - staying above the divide in any dispute between states or parties within them. Northern governments used development aid for political and strategic purposes.