SOAN 309: Colonialism &
Development
TuTh 1:20-2:35, Alumni 207
Colgate University
Fall 2004 Professor Thomas Hall
Office: 408 Alumni, x7083, email: tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Tu 2:45-4; W 1:30-2:30 & 5:20-6, Th
12-1, & by appt
Last Updated 12-2-04
**DRAFT** Study Guide for
In-Class Final
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 9-11AM
The test will cover all of the epilogue of Norberg-Hodge, Bodley Chapters 7 thru 9; Shannon Chapters 6 thru 8. All of McMichael. The test will be worth 150 points.
NOTE: Many of these terms,
and many of the questions below, may also help you think about your answer to
the take home portion of the final. The in class portion will stress more
factual questions, and they will be relatively brief. I decided NOT to
eliminate any of the study guide questions, precisely because some of them may
help you think about your take home question[s].
Terms to know:
Bretton Woods
casualization [of labor]
colonialism
commodity chain
corporate socialism
cosmopolitan localism
debt service
declining marginal returns
development project
dragons
ecocide
environmentalism
exponential growth
export-oriented industrialization
export processing zone
feminism
FTAA
fundamentalism
globalization project
green revolution
hegemony
household work
IMF
imperial project
import-substitution industrialization
incorporation
informal economy
informal work
internal colonialism
international regime
legitimacy
monetarism
NAFTA
nation vs state vs country vs nation-state
neolibralism
neoliberal project
new international division of labor
niche market
NICs
non-aligned movement
overshoot
renting money
structural adjustment
tigers
TNC
world bank
world-system
WTO
Essays: most short, a few longer:
1. Distinguish between the globalization project and the
development project.
2. How has globalization shifted the roles of women in the contemporary world -- both north [1st world] and south [third world]?
3. How has globalization reshaped the organization and goals of social movements? Give a few examples.
4. Several writers have argued that religious fundamentalism, of any type, is in large part an anti-globalization movement. Explain.
5. What does McMichael mean when he argues that fundamentalism and modernity are inextricably intertwined?
6. Explain why, in 2001, 30,000 + people die of starvation everyday and why a large portion of the human population is un- or under-employed.
7. Someone argues that capitalism has no respect for nature, and that capitalism is the major cause of environmental degradation. How would McMichael respond?
8. One of McMichael's suggestions for combating the deleterious effects of globalization is for any proposed policy to ask, " Who Benefits?" What does he mean by this? Why does he argue that this will slow globalization?
9. What does McMichael mean by "Unthinking Development"? What are some examples of how some people[s] are actually unthinking development?
10. Why is it important to recognize, as McMichael argues, that development and economic growth "are active goals rather than natural processes"?
11. Why is it important to recognize, as McMichael argues, that development is a historical process, and not a natural process?
12. McMichael argues that while development was conceived as a "national project," it was from the beginning an international or global project. Why is this distinction important?
13. Why does McMichael see the "green revolution" as something producing mixed results?
14. What is the "world cow"?
15. Why is it important to study international banking and debt relations in order to understand development, globalization, and resistance to them?
16. Why is it necessary to the globalization project to contain, eliminate, or incorporate alternatives to western life styles?
17. What is/are the role[s] of regional free trade agreements in the globalization project? Why are they important? Describe at least two.
18. What are the interconnections among environmental degradation, globalization, and neoliberalism according to McMichael?
19. What are the new social movements? Give a few examples?
20. Why does McMichael call neoliberalism the fundamentalism of the North?
21. What is the optimal scale for societies according to Bodley? What is his argument for this?
22. Bodley argues, contrary to popular belief and the core tenants of neoliberalism that growth is NOT inevitable. What is his evidence for that argument?
23. What are the roots, according to McMichael for development and the globalization project "fouling our net"?
24. Using the various texts, evidence, and arguments we have examined, critique the following common claim, "the reason there are hungry people in the world is due to overpopulations."
25. Give three (3) of the criticisms of world-systems analysis that Shannon presents.
26. What are some of the new directions in world-systems analysis presented by Shannon? How do the provide [or not] additional insight into globalization processes?
27. How does Bodley differ from McMichael and world-systems analysis in accounting for colonialism? For globalization?
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