my mind feels so dead. this is what i've scribbled out. i feel funny posting it 'cause i really haven't thought it through, but i think posting it will push me to engage it farther. and this is an informal blog, right? well, here it is:
how development operates through the discourse of modernity:
the culture of economics and the use of bureaucracy
the making of docile bodies
the creation of poverty, illiteracy, and underdevelopement
rather broad, no?
~ emiko
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Firstly, no qualifiers missy! Secondly, I think your topics are all great ideas! Through some more research you'd be able to make some more specific statements that deal with each of those themes. I really like your third idea. You could get a lot of good info from that "Redefining Development at the World Bank" article in the Cooper book. Maybe a way to narrow it down a bit would to say something like this;
By defining modernity (by the global north) as a way to alleviate illiteracy, and poverty of the underdeveloped the issues this has created by narrowing down the scope of how and what we (the golbal north) think of and do in terms of creating policies meant to help the third world countries improve their way of life, rather than allowing for a more hollistic view of other factors that are affected by a complex interplay of economic, cultural, and social dynamics.
Well thats kind of a jumble of word vomit. Hope it helped a bit, I dont know if that really helped to narrow it down or not haha!!
thank you, jocie. you're totally sweet.
"jumble of word vomit," eh? that's not qualifying your comment...
in terms of the third one, i was thinking about writing in regards to developing countries as read as lack.
(side note: isn't "LDC" an wild term? it took me a moment to figure out what they were talking about. i remember in one of the readings [i forget which one] some countries referring to themselves as "primary resource producers" or something like that -- pointing not to lack, but to that which gets exploited.
Haha your right! I am guilty of falling into the trap of qualifying... but in my mind if its after my statement its not a qualifier it's a disclaimer! Yea, I know denial is a fantasy land in which I reside! And as far as LDC I'm not sure, which reading was it in??
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