Post-colonialism

Post-colonialism

History of Colonialism
1. At the beginning often a private enterprise
2. Types of colonies
  1. Domination colony
  2. Base colony
  3. Settlement colony
3. Effects on Europe
  1. Testing ground for political transformation process
  2. Economic modernisation
4. Effects on Colonies
  1. Political effects
  2. Economic effects
  3. Processes of ethnicisation
Anti-Colonial Uprisings
1. Source of post-colonial theorising
2. Examples
  1. One of the first really successful uprisings Haiti 1971
  2. India Mutiny 1857-1858
  3. Algeria since the 1870s
  4. Herero - Nama - Uprising 1904-1907
3. Knowledge - and theory - production
Edward Saïd
1. The west and the rest
2. Rest signifies the other Europe
3. Everything what is considered bad in Europe: uncivilised, underdeveloped, backward, and promiscuous
4. Orient originally source of European culture, knowledge, and languages
5. Orient became the other for the construction of European identity in which Europe is the dominating factor
6. Happens through oriental discourses: source of power and production
7. Result of this oriental discourse: several dogmas
  1. Distinction between highly-developed Europe guided by reason and humanity vs. a-normal, underdeveloped, inferior Orent
  2. Abstractions of the Orient derived from study of classical texts rather than observations
  3. Orient is one-dimensional and incapable of self-reflection
  4. Orient is dangerous and needs to be controlled
Dipesh Chakrabarthy
1. Attempt to decentrise Western thought
2. Europe in many non-Western academia perceived as the unspoken standard
3. Postcolonial dilemma: not easy to dismiss this thinking because colonialism is unavoidable
4. Inward travel
Multiple Modernities vs. Connected Histories
1. Indian sub-altern studies group: Gurminder Bhambra, Shalini Raneria, Homi Bhaba
2. Argue against models of cultural spaces as homogenous and determined units
3. Modernity considered to be one autonomous European development
4. Eurocentrism
5. Against multiple modernities
  1. Believe complex societies developed outside of Europe
    1. But: disconnected developments
  2. Societies developed without being in contact
  3. Their modernity concept is still focusing on European understandings
6. Instead: connected histories and shared present of diverse societies
  1. Advantages
    1. Normative: Hinders the reproduction of common Eurocentric problems
    2. Empirical: Third world countries are not Europe's past but its future
Problems of Postcolonialism
1. Promotion of border thinking
  1. The West against the Rest
  2. Rest: manifold and diverse with many different culture and intellectual styles; West: monolithic structure
2. Epistemological cul-de-sac
  1. Only perceives exchanges as knowledge imposition
  2. No knowledge amalgamation
3. Postcolonialism has problems to move beyond critcising; cannot provide a praxeological account

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