Geo Midterm Authors
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Harvey
- Science is not ethically neutral (epistemic communities); Malthus was wrong.
- Naomi Klein
- Disaster capitalism; "The Shock Doctrine"; natural disasters stimulate economic production and create opportunities for work; militarization after Katrina.
- Stuart Hall
- The West and the Rest; discourses, which determine how one understands an issue; circuitry of culture (consumption, regulation, representation, identity, productivity).
- Alan Thomas
- Development; imminent development, little d, Global North, internally driven; intentional development, big D, Global South, externally driven.
- David Held
- Transformationalist.
- Robert Kaplan
- Skeptic; climate change is a security issue; The Coming Anarchy.
- Sheila Jassanoff
- New global governance; transformationalist.
- Alex de Waal
- Countries are denying inevitable natural disasters, which will only lead to their collapse; A Perfect Storm; creeping normalcy.
- Raj Patel
- Stuffed and Starved; hourglass with few corporate buyers; agroecology and agrobusiness.
- Susanna Hecht
- Amazonia; Logic of the Frontier (different actors and actions); Logic of Livestock (subsidies); The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia.
- Foucault
- Framing; discursive methods and strategies; knowledge is power; governmentality.
- David Collier
- Traps: development trap, including conflict trap and resource trap; the bottom billion.
- Rostow
- Modernization theory: society, preconditions, takeoff, drive to maturity, mass consumption.
- Thomas Malthus
- Linear growth of food + exponential growth of humanity = doom.
- Thomas Friedman
- Hyperglobalist; The World is Flat; flattening reasons: death of communism, internet, uploading, out-sourcing, offshoring, supply-chaining, in-sourcing, in-forming, steroids.