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Postcolonialism Flashcards
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- 1ColonialismThe conquest, domination, subjugation, and exploitation of primarily non- Western people and lands by European powers.
– A period: Refers to time in our history between 15th and middle of 20th century.
– A practice: Also refers to a practice. An international practice of mostly European states to occupy an territory which originally does not belong to them. - 2Orientalism(Said) The institutions and processes that helped establish the cultural superiority of Europe which both enabled and accompanied European colonial expansion.
Orientalism: Study of the Orient.
Orientalism: The orient as a social construction → Cultural invention made by European fantasies about the Orient.
Made the opposite of the West.
West > Orient
Self vs Other
The Orient was always defined by the West and never by itself. - 3EurocentrismThe tendency for analyses and explanations to presume or centre the experience of Europe as the normative referent.
- 4Problematized Sovereign EqualityThird World states meet First World states as sovereign equals BUT...
1) Unequal structure of world politics
2) Institutionalization of Wesphalian State in a history of colonial expansion
3) Postcolonial overdetermined to become weak or failed states
4) Systemic stability has not provided stability for Third World countries → rather systemic instability. - 5Liberal solutions to Third Worldism1) Development: seeing the postcolonials as "deficient". Based on Modernization theory = development measured through distance to European values. Eurocentric in foundations and effects.
2) Humanitarianism: conception of the West as the Savior and the 3W as having the need to be saved. Foreign aid policies crafted by 1st and 3rd World elites excluding the people who they will be applied for. - 6How to achieve a postcolonial narrative1. Reverse the view: from 1st to 3rd W = fuller picture (slave), identify lies (CW), question taken-for-granted and reinterpretate the role of 3rd W (agents) with alternative visions
2. Contrapunctuality: (Said) understanding GP in an overlapping world. Attention to co-constitution: recognition of non-Western contributions
3. Social embeddness: more attention to the expression of voices and less scientic objectivity. Attention to how dispassionate scientic IR colonizes others. - 7Colonialism vs ImperialismColonialism goes beyond imperialism because occupants also set up a whole apparatus to ensure constant exploitation of the colony.
- 8Postcolonialism (Lecture)Its an approach that looks at history, legacy, impact of colonialism.
1) Period: the historical period after decolonization (current)
2) Critical approach to the colonial discourse = focus on global inequality and conditions for inequality. - 9Self-determination (Lecture)The process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.
- 10Subaltern (Lecture)Social outcasts of lower status.
- 11Hybridity (Lecture)(Bhabha) A key feature of
(post-)colonial identity . He argues that the nature of colonial identity is not monolithic, but ambiguous or hybrid and to the interaction, even asymmetrical between the culture of the colonizer and the colonized. - 12Origin of the geography of knowledge (Lecture)General mainstream view is that the West decides what knowledge is and what not. Knowledge has origin in the West.
- 13Goals of Postcolonialsm (Lecture)1. Advanced social justice
2. Give diversity equal status
3. More inclusion less exclusion
4. Importance of ethics - 14White Savior Complex (Lecture)Use of a narrative of saving to justify intervention: "White men need to save black women from black men."
- 15Homogenizing Africa (Lecture)Africa as one coherent entity: common people, common culture, common way of thinking, living, being.
- 16Westphalian deferral (Article)The refusal to engage the question of otherness. Focus on Western state, but ignoring otherness.
- 17Westphalian commonsense (Article)The idea that the Westphalian understanding of the state became the basis for the international system or community of states.
The assumption that the Western state model would proliferate to other parts of the world as well and become the general basis of all states. - 18Politics of Representation (Orientalism)The power that Europe has to create knowledge about the Orient. Basis of co-constitution in Europe by contrasting to Orient.
- 19Provincializing EuropeTaking Eurocentrism down, making it just one more region of the world (province). It should not be a basis of the creation of IP perspectives anymore.
- 20ContrapunctualityGiving room for alternative voices to diversify vision of IR, to include local narratives to dominant ones (Said).
Showing historical awareness of the complex interdependence of the world's constitution.
Giving voice to the metropolitan sides (countrysides), to include more institutions and processes in creating IR. - 21Westphalian Commonplaces (Article)Commonplace assumptions...
1. The present order evolved from a multitude of loosely related but distinct international systems, situated in different sides of the world and subject to different political moralities. They competed with one another for supremacy
2. Justified state-sponsored violence as a political instrument in defense of imperial/national interest
3. Europe provided a catalyst for the transformations that led to a singular international order of autonomous states. It did so through undermining the autonomy of competing modes of rule through conquest, colonialism and subjugation. - 22Ethos of hierarchy and priviledge (Article)Ethos is the attitude of norms and values, the way of looking at the problem of hierarchy. Related to ethics, allowed for certain behavior from some actors and not from others.
Used as a system of subordination for the privilege of Europe. - 23Ethical ProjectOf the expense of the other, regime that led to discrimination.
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