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Summary GY202 Essential Quotes
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- GY202 (GY202)
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- London School Of Economics (LSE)
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GY202 QUOTESChambers, 1997: ‘good change’
Staudt, 1991: ‘enlarge choice’
Seers, 1979: ‘creating conditions for the realization of potential of human personality’
Cowen and Shenton, 1996: only when the road to progress causes poverty, unemployment and other
human miseries is intentional constructive activity necessary
Korten, 1995: people-centered development (justice, sustainability, inclusiveness). Human-centered
(economic, social and political, equity, security, sustainability)
Smith’s natural process
Week two:
Colonialism: direct political control of a people by a foreign state
Colonization: large-scale settlement in a place (migration for the extraction of materials)
Imperialism: general system of domination of a state by other state(s), indirect control (influence
culture, political and economic systems)
Primitive accumulation – historical formation of a class of people who provide labour power for the
production of wealth and capital
Proletarianization: dispossession of people from control over subsistence or production capital,
forcing them to sell their labour
Accumulation of capital by bourgeoisie
WEEK THREE:
International political dimension
Bureaucratic elitism and authoritarianism:
Potter, 1986: told to never lose sight of imperialist aims and requirements
Crowder, 1987: foreigners enjoyed very wide powers without brakes from below
Use of traditional or customary authority figures in colonial society
India: relied on traditional authority figures to give British ‘cloak of legitimacy’
Illife, 1979: Africa indirect rule: ‘British wrongly believed Tanganyikans belonged to tribes;
Tanganyikans created tribes to belong to’
Use of force
As positive, through psychology and practice of control
Crowder, 1987: colonial state was conceived in violence rather than by negotiation
Arnold, 1986: high levels of state violence became sanctioned… entrenched in political
procedures and mentality
Tech advantage
Headrick, 1988 ascribes quick conquest of Asia and Africa to European tech advantage e.g.
machine guns, malaria cure, telegraph cables, railroads
Statism (comprehensive command over economy by the state)
Rungta, 1970: laissez-faire economy maintained in India to open up colonial market to British
goods
Bates, 1981: Colonist monopoly over agricultural commodities via marketing boards, controlled
principal source of cash income in the economy
Colonialism forced locals to develop pin ways that are not suitable to their economy/interests
economic dependencies
Sender, 1986 attributes the current underdevelopment of many previously colonialized states to
the absence of sustained, LT growth in production and with low tech + capital accumulation
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