GOVT1621 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Postcolonialism, Indirect Rule
6 May 2020
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Europe had aspired to direct world affairs by first writing the history of man" in its own self-image. Degraded the markers of culture, art, and science for others to the states of folklore, myths and shamanism. New citizens challenged the position claimed by europe as legislator and executor of the will of the world. They imagine themselves as equal citizens of the world. Equally unbound by place and time to reflect on global politics. To introduce a multiplicity of perspectives, traditions and approaches to questions of identity, culture and power. Has multiple points of origination in africa, asia, australia, and the new world. These regions underwent different forms of control and economies at the time of conquest. Explain the diversity of postcolonial account of society, science and knowledge. Diversity has led to confusions compounded by the academic confinement of postcolonial studies to ethnic, cultural, and regional studies. Based on distinct modes of signification and form of knowledge.
