Multiple Perspectives — Transcript

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1. 0:01hi this is kathy your librarian
2. 0:04and i wanted to make this video to
3. 0:06demonstrate why it's important
4. 0:08to seek out multiple perspectives on
5. 0:12your topic begin with a little story
6. 0:15this is a book i found in the reference
7. 0:17section
8. 0:18when i was searching about the role of
9. 0:21the world bank
10. 0:22and the imf in alleviating poverty
11. 0:26in the global south
12. 0:29so it came across
13. 0:32their page on the external debt
14. 0:35and often when you're reading you might
15. 0:39find something that seems a little
16. 0:41sketchy or a little
17. 0:43maybe oversimplified and when you do
18. 0:48that might be a trigger to make you
19. 0:50check out the
20. 0:52author so for example in this case
21. 0:55i found this passage debt owed by
22. 0:57developing countries to foreign
23. 0:59creditors
24. 1:01emerged as a major issue in the late
25. 1:031970s
26. 1:05so think about it how can debt
27. 1:08emerge by itself without any human
28. 1:12agency
29. 1:14that isn't a sort of person or entity
30. 1:17that can just
31. 1:18happen right it doesn't happen by itself
32. 1:21and then the size of the debt and their
33. 1:23ability to repay it
34. 1:24was a problem for some latin american
35. 1:27countries in the 1980s
36. 1:30so often when you see this passive
37. 1:32chance here was
38. 1:34it is a convenient way of hiding
39. 1:37responsibility
40. 1:39so the size of the debt and the ability
41. 1:42to repay it was a problem
42. 1:45it's interesting that we don't really
43. 1:47get any of the actors
44. 1:49in this event
45. 1:54i want to know how and why did it become
46. 1:57a problem
47. 2:00who are the actors so on the second page
48. 2:04this text hints at some of the reasons
49. 2:07for the
50. 2:08debt including bad governance economic
51. 2:11mismanagement
52. 2:12and internal and external conflicts of
53. 2:14these poor countries
54. 2:18then the rest of the article talks about
55. 2:20how the world bank and the imf
56. 2:23have done a lot to alleviate poverty and
57. 2:27debt relief
58. 2:29have given debt relief to um some of
59. 2:31these countries
60. 2:33and really by the end of the article you
61. 2:35tend to see the world bank as sort of a
62. 2:37hero
63. 2:38in alleviating poverty
64. 2:42but it sounded sketchy to me because
65. 2:44i'll admit i had a little prior
66. 2:45knowledge about this topic
67. 2:49the first thing i would do is say okay
68. 2:51who is responsible for this
69. 2:54and if we look at the author on the book
70. 2:56itself or
71. 2:57in the record it will say the world bank
72. 3:00no author name um just the world bank
73. 3:04itself and i would ask you
74. 3:07how likely is it the world bank would
75. 3:09want to
76. 3:11criticize itself kind of like us
77. 3:14on social media when we have to upload a
78. 3:16profile image
79. 3:18do we take the ugliest picture that we
80. 3:21have of ourselves
81. 3:22or the best
82. 3:25so this is a time to start looking for
83. 3:28some other perspectives
84. 3:30and we'll start by searching primo
85. 3:33to do that just go to the library
86. 3:34homepage
87. 3:36student resources library that's my way
88. 3:40of getting to the library but there are
89. 3:41others
90. 3:44and instead of using this search box i'm
91. 3:46going to go straight to the advanced
92. 3:47search
93. 3:52and i'm going to enter world bank or
94. 3:54international monetary fund
95. 3:55they're often sort of written about
96. 3:58together
97. 4:02and that's what the or is doing it's
98. 4:03saying i'll take one or the other or
99. 4:05both
100. 4:06and i'm going to change this field to
101. 4:08subject that way i know
102. 4:11that the books or articles i pull up are
103. 4:13really going to be about
104. 4:15one of these topics and the second
105. 4:19part of my research question had to do
106. 4:20with poverty
107. 4:23so i put that on another line
108. 4:28so the first thing we do is pay
109. 4:30attention to the
110. 4:31results and in the third one we see this
111. 4:35book title
112. 4:3650 years is enough the case against
113. 4:39the world bank in the international
114. 4:41monetary fund
115. 4:43if you click on it you'll get a little
116. 4:45summary
117. 4:48and this paragraph gives you a lot of
118. 4:51reason
119. 4:51to be a skeptical
120. 4:55about the amount of poverty alleviation
121. 4:58the world bank has actually done
122. 5:05and scrolling through more results we
123. 5:07get to this one the hypocrisy
124. 5:09trap the world bank and the poverty
125. 5:11reform
126. 5:12now this book when you see online access
127. 5:15it means you can actually just click and
128. 5:17you go to the whole ebook itself
129. 5:21just the title hints that
130. 5:25some people feel the world bank is
131. 5:28hypocritical in saying that it's
132. 5:31alleviated poverty
133. 5:33and this one as well masters of delusion
134. 5:35the world bank and the poverty of
135. 5:37nations
136. 5:38so you spend some time looking through
137. 5:40these books
138. 5:42looking through other sources after some
139. 5:45time
140. 5:46you may dig down to this book
141. 5:49the new conventions of an economic
142. 5:51hitman we talked about the
143. 5:53importance of authority and how
144. 5:55authority is conferred in different ways
145. 5:58sometimes by experience this person john
146. 6:01perkins has
147. 6:0220 years experience working for the
148. 6:04world bank so i would consider him very
149. 6:07authoritative and i've highlighted in
150. 6:10yellow
151. 6:11some of the most unflattering things he
152. 6:14says about the world bank
153. 6:16among them the most disturbing that he
154. 6:19said the world
155. 6:20bank projects brought untold suffering
156. 6:22to some of the planet's poorest people
157. 6:26so in short if i had just gone with that
158. 6:30first
159. 6:30book i would have no idea that the world
160. 6:33bank was
161. 6:34not the perfect
162. 6:37and successful institution that it sort
163. 6:41of portrays itself to be
164. 6:43we always want to be a little careful of
165. 6:46taking
166. 6:47the word of the person
167. 6:50responsible for the information alone we
168. 6:53want to go out and find
169. 6:54other opinions as well