scholarly journals The Third World and the paradox of the digital revolution

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mesbahi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Third World ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
New Humanism ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Third World ◽  
We The People

We, the people of the Third World, greeted the revolution in information technology with great enthusiasm, perceiving it as the harbinger of an equalitarian and democratic society and the encapsulation of a new humanism. The question is whether or not this new utopia has effectively brought an end to the great divide regarding access to information and knowledge.

scholarly journals The Production and Consumption of Cultural Villages in South Africa: A Decolonial Epistemic Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Ndlovu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Epistemic Perspective

While many of the peoples who exist in the ‘spatio-temporal’ construct known as the postcolonial world today are convinced that they have succeeded – through anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles – to defeat colonial domination, the majority of the people of the same part of the world have not yet reaped the freedoms which they aimed to achieve. The question that emerges out of the failure to realise the objectives of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles by the people of the Third World after a number of years of absence of juridical-administrative colonial and apartheid systems is to what extent did the people who sought to dethrone colonial domination understand the complexity of the colonial system? And to what end did the ability and/or inability to master the complexity of the colonial system affect the process of decolonization? Through the case study of the production and consumption of cultural villages in South Africa, this article deploys a de-colonial epistemic perspective to reveal, within the context of tourism studies, the complexity of the colonial system and why a truly decolonized postcolonial world has so far eluded the people of the developing world.

scholarly journals The Educative Conversation of Imam Khomeini in Islamic Republic Victory

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Amir Farahzadi
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Sensitive Conditions

One of the most efficient weapons of dominators, was anonymity of dominated societies to continue to rule. In recent decades, there were high trying to make the third world societies in dream and make the people understood that they are dependent to other people and other societies. In Reza Khan Era, England country was idea maker in his rule in all dimensions of the country. So, his ruling method was formed based on England thought and idea and in hid son Era, some American policies were replaced. Mohammad Reza Shah, tried to advertise about the western culture, and he founded the country constructional system, on the basis of western structure. Imam Khomeini as the leader of Islamic Republic was informed about the policies of shah along changes at the aim of American purposes, therefore, he noted that the only way to challenge with Shah is rehabilitation of Islamic culture and removing the western culture and he has tried to get the people informed about the sensitive conditions and to rehabilitate the sense of confidence and independence as the Islamic value. This research aim is to present the idea of arrogance and anti-colonialism in orientation of public thoughts against Pahlavi Government.

Cultural Survival Reports on Drugs and Health in the Third World

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-11
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Major Health ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
Children Under 5

Excessive and irrational use of western drugs presents the potential for major health problems in the Third World, as surveyed in Cultural Survival's fall newsletter. Drugs and vaccines are the most frequently used remedies, with average Third World expenditures representing 40 to 60% of total health care costs. Inexpensive measures to control diarrhea, respiratory infections, diptheria, measles, and whooping cough—major causes of death for children under 5 years old—are neglected in favor of the purchase of "expensive drugs often of dubious utility for the majority of the people."

REFUGEES AND CONFLICT SITUATIONS

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (265) ◽  
pp. 321-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Review
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
The Third ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The protection of refugees and displaced persons is guaranteed by many universal and regional instruments of international law. The rules are there, but for several years the humanitarian organizations charged with implementing them have constantly had to face new situations brought about by the scale and frequency of mass population movements, especially in the Third World, and new types of violence which affect both the status and the possibilities for protection of the people concerned. Very often, the solutions arrived at by these bodies have taken the form of assistance rather than protection, the one not always easily distinguishable from the other.

The Cultural Question in the Third World Development and Underdevelopment

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Ubongabasi Itoro Usoro
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Third World Country ◽  
Third World Development ◽  
Sketch Study ◽  
Culture And Development ◽  
The Third World

An average third world country strives after development. Yet, culture, being the total way of life of the people, has exerted great impact both in the development and underdevelopment of the third world countries. Culture forms the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society. However, where the culture adopted from antiquity opposes the present changing world realities, it becomes a problem of contemporary concerns. Using a descriptive and analytical method, and cultural determinism theory, this chapter examines the role of culture in the development of underdevelopment of the third world countries (a sketch study of Africa). It argues that the cultures that lead to the development of the third world countries will gradually lead to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Culture and development are essential notations to be reconsidered and re-enforced in the third world. Hence, to attain relevance, both must be complemented. The chapter therefore helps to harness and foster the complementation between culture and development in the third world countries.

Deleuze and the Third World

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Third World ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Representation Language ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Third World

The purpose of this essay is to discuss Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the Third World. For Deleuze and Guattari, however, the Third World is not only a geographical term, but also one that denotes the linguistic zones, another term of the minority. The essay argues that the concept of the Third World is related to minor literature, the minor or intense use of language. This ‘transcendental exercise’ of writing is an opposition to the initial purpose of language, namely representation. Language must escape from its normative usage, and then be liberated to a new spatio-temporality, in other words, the linguistic Third World zones. My conclusion is that the creation of Third World linguistic zones is the repetition of differences against the generalisation of representation, such as becoming non-human and non-European, not in imitation of the molar form of the animal or a non-continent extending terrestrial power into the ocean, but as the right way to invent the people missing in the Third World. Inventing the people of the Third World is the right condition in which alternative political subjects can be produced through desubjectification, not domestication, by capitalist axiomatics. In this way, Deleuze's political philosophy aims to use the virtual politics of the Third World to radicalise the actual representation of the existing Left.

scholarly journals Public attitudes to wildlife and conservation in the Third World

Oryx ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Harcourt ◽  
H. Pennington ◽  
A. W. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Primate Conservation ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Primate Society ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Developed World

Conservationists in the West often assume that the people of the developing world are less concerned about wildlife than are people in the developed world. Recent surveys, in Tanzania, Brazil, Rwanda and the USA, have exploded this myth. The authors discuss the findings from these surveys and their implications for conservation. This paper was presented, in London in December 1985, at a symposium—Current Issues in Primate Conservation—organized jointly by the FFPS and the Primate Society of Great Britain.

Cairo: Repackaging Population Control

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Simons
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
The Third ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The U.S

Aid agencies, charities, and other Non-governmental organizations once denounced population control programs as racist interference in the third world. Yet, at the United Nations Conference on Population and Development in Cairo last September, these same organizations endorsed very similar ideas. The U.N. can now claim that even its fiercest critics not only have muted their criticism of population control programs but now positively endorse them. Over the last 30 years, population control has been consciously repackaged by the U.S. establishment. The image of population control has changed from being overtly anti-third world to being about giving the people of the third world—especially women—basic rights in family planning. Wrapped up in the language of women's empowerment and environmentalism, the establishment's old arguments about there being too many nonwhite babies in the world, have, unfortunately, won the day.

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