Western scientific transfer to the South produces maldevelopment and dedevelopment

Evidence

Maldevelopment and dedevelopment for the majority of the world’s peoples have tended to characterize the introduction of scientifically rational agriculture, manufacturing, health care, and so forth into the already economically and politically disadvantaged societies of the Third World (Bass, 1990; Braidotti et al. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1590

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘maldevelopment’ and ‘dedevelopment’ as terms for the counterproductive effects of scientific modernization imposed on the Third World.
• XREF: connects to: Western wealth was built by actively creating underdevelopment elsewhere — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293; Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 293; Causal links between Western decline and non-Western conditions are rank folly — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 362

Broader Connections

• Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment #corroborates (0.92) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293
• Western wealth was built by actively creating underdevelopment elsewhere #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293
• Causal links between Western decline and non-Western conditions are rank folly #contradicts (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 362