Thursday, January 10, 2008

Countryside

  • In peasant studies, special consideration
    should be accorded to peasant women
    since they experience "double discrimination."
  • Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) are alternative worldview
    that challenge the reductionist and elitist western paradigm.
  • Neoliberal economics threatens the food sovereignty of many
    countries in the Global South (food as a political weapon).
  • The praxis (theory + practice) of development
    should be rights-based.
  • Urban poverty is an off-shoot of rural poverty but through
    time the former assumes a character of its own.

DS 112 recorded speech (alternative theories and approaches)

Present a recorded 3-minute speech about your assigned topic. Situate it in the context of the Global South. Provide an appropriate title. P...