What role does the concept of development play in the contemporary world order?
What role does the concept of development play in the contemporary world order?
As society advances, the concept of development has been taken as a clear reference to improving the quality of life for all individuals equally. This also taking as well as development has been taken hand in hand with globalization, but is the definition of modern development equally inclusive of all individuals in modern societies and the guidelines they set among their communities. For this entrance I wanted to take globalization as a tool of perspective to help us understand the reality that we live in right now.
Within the so-called new world order, the concept of a homogeneous development is not what is considered as development in all civilizations (seeking for the most part the claim of universality of human rights). Western societies have clearly defined what it is to have a developed culture in homogeneous terms for their individuals, but this does not mean that it is culturally valid for Western societies, therefore, Western concepts would be passing for a valid conception in the universal sense.
Just as Giusti, M (2016) explains, there is no convincing substantiation of the universal validity of human rights, just as Western culture assumes the universality of human rights in which would be obstructing the basic democratic process of those Western societies that do not assume the same basic rights as Westerners.
Giusti clearly explains "the universalization of this concept defines the hypocrisy of the rich Western world, which covers up the de facto injustice of the economic order and the international political order by means of a moral discourse that legitimizes de iure its position of dominance".
This is how development ends up becoming an indicator of legitimacy of states and organizations in the sense that they must be oriented to achieve the idea of development already set forth by neoliberal globalization and if they fail to do so, they are relegated and sanctioned. In this way, it only promotes technification and the uprooting of culture as tools to achieve a better quality of life. It positions man as the ultimate goal and leaves the other aspects of the ecosystem unprotected, considering them as means to be perfected to facilitate man's life.
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Giuste,
M (2016) “Los derechos humanos en un contexto intercultural” Organización de los Estados iberoamericanos. Pag 27-45
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