Thesis statements for exams

Section A Question about Walter Rodney

Disaster capitalism- Bonilla’s Racio-colonial capitalism direct modern progression of Rodney’s underdevelopment theory. Colonial neglect, dependence formation, and imposition of neoliberal policies to transfer wealth, privatize assets

Section A Question 2 about Escobar and Ferguson

Engagement of global aid players failure to create long-term by Escobar and Ferguson. Solely medical concern become epistemic violence, neglecting political and social causes of health inequities

Section 2 question about food sovereignty

Food sovereignty combat structural goals of neocolonialism cause challenges colonial control through economic dependency, epistemic violence, and political subordiantion, agree with the authors decolonial response to the mainstream New Agriculture model

Section 2 question about Bonilla, Pine and Lawson

Autogestion-Puerto Rico,Pine's- somatic Lawson- contact zones, racio colonial capitalism are perpetuated through state detachment, most challenged through embodiment and desubjectivation for political action and resistance to structural inequality.

Section 2 question about Hickel and Fitting/Bonilla/Pine

transition but grassroots initiatives are the most crucial component while Hickel’s top down approach dismantle racio-colonial capitalism and neocolonialism, structures change if decolonial by local movements experiencing autogestion and embodied resistance