Economic Policy in SA
Julia Suárez-Krabbe
Spivak
Responsibility based cultures are delegitimized and unprepared for the public
Rights based cultures are committed to corporatism in philanthropy
Supplementation is needed by both sides
Human rights are about claiming a right/set of rights, but is also about protecting and giving these rights
Education can be a path to creating a better world, and the efforts to educate should be in the rural south
Human rights efforts would be better conducted if they supported the education of the rural south
By educating the people, we allow for them to begin manifest destiny of their own
The burden of the fittest
structure allows for the affront that anyone who means well also has to deal with the white man's burden
Coloniality underlies western education and politics, and reinforces racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and depredation of nature
Bad Faith - Choosing to believe and defend comfortable lies about groups of people
Involves modes of production, political organization, spatial organization, modes of acting, practices of production, sexuality, aesthetics, spiritualities, knowledge construction, etc
Necropolitics - attached to the power and capacity to dictate who may live and who must die
Characteristic of European modernity and naturalized through colonialism, race and modalities of gender
The Death Project
A tool/consequence of colonialism that exploits native communities to gain wealth, that later perpetuates ideas of hatred, war, lies, propaganda, confusion, etc.
Incompatible with the native idea of The Mother, who is given life and allows for the continuation of life. A sort of fluid thinking that allows for laws to move as needed
Often human rights and development are not seen or implemented as conjoined ideals, but when implemented in a certain way they can be beneficial in the long run