>Apologies to my woeful lack of reading in development theory, but I stand
>by the rest of my comments. And I don't recall saying anything about people
>not being free: one of the fundamental processes constituting modernity (as
>effect...) is that action becomes more reflexive - at least for some lucky
>rich westerners. It all depends on how you conceptualise freedom...
>
>Graham
>
>
>
>At 03:21 PM 2/20/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>Ah, I see.
>>
>>>By 'material and discursive effect' I didn't mean to imply that
>>>globalisation doesn't exist. Rather, I meant that to talk about
>>>globalisation as if it is an a priori cause is analytically misleading.
>>>For instance, environmental degedation isn't caused by globalisation; it's
>>>caused by, amongst many other things, 1) the appropriate people in
>>>coroporations deciding not to adopt environmentally friendly practcies, 2)
>>>policies and buying decisions taken by all those individuals who are
>>>members of corporations who constitute that mysterious entity 'the market'
>>>(which didn't exist in popular speech until the 19th century) which force
>>>or coerce individuals in the 'third world' to adopt environmentally
>>>unfriendly farming. The same sort of linkages constitute what we label
>>>'underdevelopment' (and underdeveloped in relation to _what_? I might add).
>>
>>Not so much as underdevelopment 'in relation to something' Graham,
>>but underdevelopment as the repression of development, i.e. as in
>>Frank, AG. (1966) _the underdevelopment of development_ Monthly
>>Review, 18, (4) and furthered by the likes of Rodney, W. (1972) _How
>>Europe underdeveloped Africa_. London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications.
>>
>>>
>>>'Things' like globalisation are constituted out of a whole series of
>>>translations of ideas and practices by conscious individuals and (I would
>>>argue) non-conscious non-human actors across space(s)and time(s). In this
>>>sense, Capitalism is an effect, the discipline of human geography is an
>>>effect,
>>
>>Hmm, capitalism as an effect - I'd need some convincing - I'd have
>>said it was more a prescribed action - a purposeful act based on a
>>system of belief more than an effect...
>>
>>>I - and you - are effects; nodes of practice enmenshed in multiple
>>>sets of social relations that are (re)produced by the actions of ourselves
>>>and others. I'm overegging the pudding, because I don't believe in
>>>classical cause-effect relations anyway, but I hope I make my point.
>>
>>
>>Cheers, Paul 'I am not an effect, I am a free man'.
>>
>>>
>>>Cheers :-)
>>>
>>>Graham
>>>
>>>At 01:27 PM 2/20/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>>>>At the risk of sounding pedantic, and being accused of methodological
>>>>>individualism, globalisation isn't a cause of anything; it's a material
>and
>>> >>discursive effect
>>>>
>>--
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>>"The Macintosh isn't a computer...
>>it's a way of life." Don Rittner.
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>>Paul Broome
>>Centre for Developing Areas Research
>>Department of Geography
>>Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
>>University of London
>>Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX, UK
>>
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>Graham Gardner
>Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences
>University of Wales
>Aberystwyth
>Ceredigion
>SY23 3DB
>Wales
>UK
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Graham Gardner
Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3DB
Wales
UK
Tel: 0044 (0)1970 622606
Fax: 0044 (0)1970 622659
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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