POLS 1090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ecological Footprint, Anti-Imperialism, Walt Whitman Rostow
13 Jun 2014
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The chapter begins by examining the ecological and social crises stemming from our current consumer- based practices of globalization and development and identifies the obstacles and possibilities for global efforts toward sustainability. It then examines how the idea and practice of development emerged during the colonial era that socially engineered non-european societies by reconstructing labor systems and disorganizing the social psychology of subjects. Exposure to european liberal discourse fueled anti-colonial movements for independence. Specifying development as consumption privileges market as vehicle of social change. Moreover, theorization of development as a series of evolutionary stages, as posited by rostow"s the stages of economic. Growth, as a non-communist manifest, naturalizes the process, whether it occurs on a national or an international stage. Because of continuing first world dependence on raw materials from the third world, some societies were more equal than others in their capacity to traverse rostow"s stages, and a global theoretical context is provided by.
