POLI 2F20 Lecture Notes - Research Question, Edward Said, Subaltern Studies
6 Nov 2013
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Slide 1: post-colonialism: ir from the ground up. 1990s: end of the cold war, failure of mainstream theories to predict it, opened the door for critical theories, including feminism and post- colonialism. Decolonization began with woodrow wilson and the league of nations . And culminated with the end of the cold war. Post-colonial theorists challenge the idea of linear development and the language associated with this. The non-aligned movement: former colonies delineate their independence. Defined by subject: colonial-imperial relations and their effects. Defined by perspective: pov of the colonized, marginalized. Defined by sources: testimonials, fiction, poetry and memoirs used to analyze culture, which is the lens through which it views world politics. Normative bias: plight of the dispossessed and marginalized. World travelling: attempts to overcome this problem. Slide 8: key thinker (i): franz fanon (wrote in 50"s & 60"s) The wretched of the earth (1963); black skin, white masks (1952: discussed the mechanisms of colonial control.
