Summary: Ethnicity, Culture And Politics

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• What are the 2 approaches of developement?

  
  

  • Policy and action for poverty eradication and/or economic growth (development assistance, MDGs)
  • Undestanding economic and societal change (historical trajectories, causal mechanisms)

• In this lecture Boele talks about Globalisation in forms of New Chaos and New Order, what are those?

  New Chaos:
  
  

  • —Ethnomovements, fundamentalisms
  • —War-lordism / ´entrepreneurs of violence´
  • —Global inequalities and polarisation

  
  
  New Order:
  
  

  • —Multilaterial institutions and action
    
  • —Production and consumption
  • —Ideas and values
  • —Citizenship???

• What are the 4 visions on globalisation?

  
  1.Universal Modernisation
  2.Global Capitalism
  3.Clashing of civilisations
  4.Post-modern diversity

• What does Fukuyama say about Universal Modernisation?

  One development path:
  
  

  • —Scientific revolution →
  • —Technological revolution →
  • —Industrial revolution →

  Every country has to go through this transitions.
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  • Maximising economic output and rational governance via market-economy and modern state 
  • —Equal recognition of all individuals 
  • —Participation in liberal democracies

• What does Huntington say about clashing of civalisations?

  Universalism is a Western illusion
  
  Fundamental cultural cleavages become visible:
  

  • Western, Confucian, Japanese,
  • Islamic, Hindu, Orthodox,
  • Latin American, African

• What does Rorty –Parekh say about  Post-modern diversity?

  • Farewell to the modernist universalist illusion
  • The post-modern condition is diverse and multicultural
  • The central position of the West is finally over

  
  
  Argrees in some degree with Huttington. There is a huge diversity, there is a multicultural society. There is conflict, diversity but it creates a better world. We should move to respecting diversity to a plural world.

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• What are the 5 stages in Rostow's model?

  1. Stage 1: Traditional Society, subsistence, barter, argiculture
  2. Stage 2: Transitional Stage, specialization, surpluses, infrastructure
  3. Stage 3: Take off, Industralisation, growing investment, regional growth, politcal change.
  4. Stage 4: Drive to Maturity, diversification, innovation, less reliance on imports, investment.
  5. Stage 5: High Mass Consumption, consumer oriented, durable goods, flourish, service sector becomes dominant.

• What were the Inputs and Outputs of the great transformation?

  • Inputs: schifting cultivators, artisinal Fisherman, Inuits, whole empires, Dodos, etc.
  • Outputs: States, borderd, individuals, Heinikes, Facebook, cities, consumers, wealth, Mcworld, etc.

• What are Marx' famous words on the Great Transformation?

  Everything solid melts into air.

• In which 2 components can we divide the Model of Transformation?

  • Model of mincer of universal Modernisation: diverse inputs – similar outcomes.  (focus on process of economic/social change).
  • Model of personal development: each country/region  going through own transformations (focus on individual societies and communities)