GLBL ST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mahmood Mamdani, Core Countries, Militarism
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Different analyses (of history and geography: different policies, different socio-cultural practices. China: peoples war on terror: uighur population, high-tech security practices are being employed, discursive connections coming from the united states. Expelled from uganda for having an asian ethnicity. Core and gap are being used as spatial terms. Interconnected and globalized core countries are connected this way. Style of discourse that imposes clear distinctions and boundaries between places, it organizes this dichotomy in terms of hierarchy. Core and the gap vs the world is flat. Lack of globalization leads to insecurity, violence and terror. Us needs to shrink the gap by sending in military forces. Stereotyping: simplification, essentialization, homogenization, suggests there are innate qualities. Rejects core vs gap, west vs rest. Cold war = colonialism through other means . Both sides: explicitly anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, practically interventionist fought proxy wars as they get involved, they give military training and aid.
