challenge 6

What is the third world, and why are some countries developing whilw others claim to be developed?

What is a developing country?

Developing country is a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well-being. Since no single definition of the term developed country is recognized internationally, the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries. Some developing countries have high average standards of living. For example my country is a developing country.

We learned Foucault’s perspective on discourse;

Foucault is interested in the ways in which knowledge, language and culture operates in society.  He seeks to develop an approach to power which departs from the conventional perspectives found in sociology.Conventional perspectives e.g. Karl Marx or Max Webe.

Foucault understands social relationships as much less permanent or stable and influenced very strongly by patterns of language or discourse which he believes organize the way in which we relate to each other.

Examples of discourses:

Straight or gay,

Huts or houses,

Civil war or tribal war.

We discussed about Carl Linné's book " Systema natura " published in 1735; American, European, Asiatic, African…

And read the introduction to Arture Escobar’s ‘Encountering Development’;

Orientalism, africanism and developmentalism

The Truman discourse,

    Escobar discourse

    The UN discourse.

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