GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hutu, Cultural Hegemony, Edward Said
3 Feb 2018
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The state in global perspective: imperialism and colonialism. Imperialism: extension of authority over other territories, core over periphery, direct control (political) Indirect control (military, economic, cultural: orientalism (edward said) - cultural hegemony imposed on the near east, used to justify. Western imperialism: colonizers see themselves as superior, colonies reduced (essentialized) as undeveloped, colonialism, formal rule over a foreign population, settlement, core over periphery, upsets existing political and economic systems, plantation economies, flawed central government. Loss of culture: north/south divide - decolonization, south (periphery) north (core, colonized: africa, south america, pacific, asia, colonizers: europe, us, japan, russia, decolonization. Colonization: communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat (engels 1847) in practice Divide from 1945 until the break up of the soviet union in 1991. communist countries make neighbours communist i. fear decolonized states will become communists ii. us foreign policy to contain soviets iii. military intervention iv. cooperation.
