POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Edward Said, Free Market
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Polb90 lecture 5: postcolonial and postcolonial feminist perspectives on. Postcolonial thought; argued that standard development ideas had been a disaster and made things worse. Through the analysis of language (discourse) wanted to understand how the west portrayed/understand the. Global south which lead to the deconstruction of western thought. Questioning of the meaning of development and this means for how it is to be achieved: an analysis of the language of development: discourse analysis . Deconstruction: demonstrated that taken-for-granted assumptions about reality are not true. Global north generates knowledge/perceptions of the global south in an incorrect way. These misunderstandings are also infiltrated into the minds of the people of the global south this is a source of power: how do race, class and gender function in the thinking/writing of the west, franz fanon. What gives north power is their ability to make south think they are inferior and north is superior. Knowledge and power: edward said, orientalism (1978)
