Questions

1. In Shrestha, what is the difference between bikasi and abikasi? Similarly, what is the difference between being poor and hungry and being considered underdeveloped?

2. How were Peace Corps volunteers viewed by the Nepalese? What was the irony of this given the Peace Corps volunteers reason for going?

3. How was development language different than colonial language?

4. Despite the fact he succeeded at “becoming developed” and reaped the rewards, what does Shrestha feel he and others like him have lost?

5. How was Shrestha’s format different than other articles we read? Do group members think this help or hurt his arguments?

6. Please write an abstract (ie summary) of Susan George’s “How the Poor Develop the Rich.” Explain what her main argument is, what evidence she uses to support her claims, and who she claims benefits and suffers for the situation she describes. Pick someone from your group who will read this to the class if called upon.

7. Why does Minh-ha say “to use marginality as starting point, whether than an end point?” What does she have to say about the relationship between insider and outsider, especially when it is present in the same person? Who might be both an insider and an outsider?

8. Why is Minh-ha an example of post-colonial scholarship?

9. Tuesday’s lecture is about the recruitment/migration of would-be professional athletes, often from poorer communities to situations that offer the (often unrealized) possibility of great wealth. Turning to each of the three readings for today, tell how each would analyze the causes of/ expectations around/experience of the recruiting of the poor to professional sports.