Sunday, December 14, 2008

random points

  • 'development community' = network of people professionally concerned with development (Colin Leys)
  • invisible hand = allots fortune (winners) and misfortune (losers) to people
  • power = ability to get others to do what they otherwise wouldn't do (Robert Dahl)
  • imperialist wars = hegemonic wars
  • input = sangkap
  • output = produkto
  • gahum = hegemony
  • kontra-gahum = counter-hegemony
  • mini-depression, great recession = feel-good terms, to avoid comparisons with the calamitous impact of the Great Depression (Amado Doronila)
  • Apolinario Mabini = first Philippine secretary of foreign affairs (1898)
  • overseas Filipino workers = overseas Filipino investors (in recognition of their contribution to the Philippine economy)

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...