What are Structural Adjustment Programs

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1. How was Truman's Point Four related to the notion of Development?

2. What are the characteristics of Development that allowed it to become a powerful and widely accepted policy? You have to talk about consensus and coercion.

3. What is the problem with the notion of Development? (Hint: linear evolution/progress, ethnocentrism, single story, colonialism, etc...)

4. What are some of the contradictions of Development? Refer to Gustavo Esteva's piece "What it means to be underdeveloped)"

5. What are Structural Adjustment Programs?

6. What is the problem with these programs? How might the notion of underdevelopment represent countries thus labeled?

7. What does the case of Jamaica tell you about the relationship between Development and world inequalities?

8. What kind of industries profited from the economic policies implemented in Jamaica?

9. Would the film Life and Debt represent another form of colonialism? If so, explain How.

10. Reflect about the contradictions of Development. You may draw inspiration from my analogy with chemotherapy.

11. Explain the following quote from Life and Death:

"Eventually the masters left, in a kind of way. Eventually the slaves were freed, in a kind of way."

Jamaica Kincaid

12. Who are the Awajun-Wampis, and why were they protesting against the Peruvian government?

13. Building on de la Cadena's article and my lectures, how should we understand conflicts over nature? And what about the divide between nature/humans or human/non-humans?

14. How did the Peruvian government react to Awajun-Wampis' demands? And why? (Hint: think about the similarities between Development and Colonialism...

15. If the knowledge to solve the environmental crisis already exists, why haven't emissions gone down, and why are we at the brink of a new global mass extinction?

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