Goodbye Lenin, hello world system

Glasnost - 'openness'

- greater government transparency, less censorship, greater flow of information

- pre-internet, information flows were easy to control

Perestoika - 'restructuring'

- economic reform: decentralisation, dismantling of bureaucraacy and providing businesses with incentives that reward individual enterprise or labour (i.e; move towards market economy)

Decolonisation but colonially drawn borders remained

- newly independent African states were poor (because their labour was paid poorly/unfairly by the colonial businesses) and needed funding for infrastructure etc

- America and Soviet Union came along courting these countries offering (conflicting?) help

Decollectivisation

- not necessarily the same as converting back to private property..
- were collectives converting back into private property or was private propert being invented (appearing for the first time?)

- how to make restitution for non-land contributions?

- many former collevtive farms became quasi-collecive co-operatives

Economic anth was then revitalised just as NRTs and adoption shook things up for kinship studies

Industrialised area in former East Berlin became useless after decollectivisation - no one wanted to claim it as their peoperty so artists took up the area and set up cheap, beautiful bars with beer gardens that make just enough to carry on

The World System and Globalisation

Modernisation theory 1960s

- Western countries are the most developed, others (mainly former colonies) are on the same trajectory as the West and will eventually 'catch up'

- this process of development invariably moves from 'tradition' to 'modernity'

- Third World countries have fallen behind on this trajectory and need to be directed to become more advanced

Raul Prebisch - Argentine economist

- research in 1950s demonstrated that as the wealth of rich nations increased, the wealth of poor nations decreased - correllation in an inverse relationship

- his findings were developed by others into the dependency theory where poor nations
provide natural resources, cheap labour and a market for obsolete technology to rich nations that perpetuate the state of dependency through a range of policies, legal mechanisms and initiatives