Introductory Lecture for PS 212 Culture and Politics of the Third World at the University of Kentucky, Summer 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.

1. What IS the “Third World”? Dr. Christopher S. Rice

2. Third World

4. Source: http://www.nationsonline.org/bilder/third_world_map.jpg

5. Source: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/204/8-10/cold_war_map.jpg

6. Developing World

11. Other World

16. Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:World_map_with_equator.jpg

18. West vs. Non-West

19. What IS the “non-Western world” anyway???

20. “ Those states and societies culturally outside Europe and its cultural enclaves in North America, Australia, New Zealand and Israel…”

21. “… the unassimilated immigrant enclaves of Africans, Asians, Middle Easterners, Caribbeans and Latins found within Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel.” Puchala, XXXXXX

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23. Ideology vs. State-Centered Thinking #1

24. a relatively coherent set of empirical and normative beliefs and thought, focusing on the problems of human nature, the process of history, and socio-political arrangements

25. Ideology vs. State-Centered Thinking

27. Ideology vs. State-Centered Thinking

28. Intra-State Interactions

29. Intra-State Interactions International Inter-Cultural Inter-Communal

30. Transnational Corporations

31. Explanation: Ideology vs. Power, Wealth #2

32. War/Peace vs. Struggle

33. Occidentalism

34. Emancipation: Process by which independence from the West and the dependencies created by the colonial past is gained

35. 2 Elements of Emancipation

36. Identity Narrative

37. “ The Empire Never Ended…” P.K. Dick

38. Neocolonialism

39. Hegemony: Total domination of a system by one element, whether overt or subtle

41. Third World

43. Third World = Non-West

44. “ In the coming world order, there will be winners and there will be losers. The losers will outnumber the winners by an unimaginable factor .” Jacques Attali (1991) Founding President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

45. Is it, “as one highly excited Latin American delegate put it at the pre-Rio Roots of the Future conference …past time ‘to stop talking about the ‘North and the South’ and the ‘South and the North’ and the ‘North within the South’ and the ‘South within the North’ and start talking about’ (in rough translation) ‘the f___ers and the f___ees’.” Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor

46. POVERTY

48. Associated Press 1997

49. A New Schematic? (In Four Worlds)