Postcolonial

Postcolonial

A. Definition
1. 1.not a single theory
  1. interdiscplinary
2. 2.A period of time
  1. after decolonization, after imperialism
3. 3. production of knowledge and ethics of different resistances
  Annotations:
  - who are we? how do we know who are we? who can communiate, in what way? how others are represented? why do these people have power? how can we change things?
B. Identity, Knowledge and subjectivity
1. 3.identity
  1. 1.death of the subject
    Annotations:
    - for whom the subject had died, if in fact it had, and what international histories may have gone into the production of the subject in the first place?
    1. ppt. 5
  2. 2.disciplining the identities
    Annotations:
    - the connection between violence and economy, which also embedded in identity.
    1. ppt.9
  3. 3.historical problem of identity
    1. PC theory historicalize the self: how was it formed.
      1. ppt.14
    2. self-other, who are we now?
      1. ppt.16
  4. Post-structuralist critic of enlightment identity
    1. ppt.26
  5. for profit at first place, but ultimately power and control
2. 4. Epistemology and power
  1. 0. power, economics and epistemology
    1. Radhakrishnan, 2000 in S&H
      1. ppt.7
  2. 1)theory is political
    1. ppt.12
  3. 2) Contaminated Knowledge?
    1. ppt.15
  4. 3) Banal cosmopolitanism
    1. ppt.21
  5. 4) Postcolonial theories varied
    1. ppt.24
C. A changing field
1. 1. continuing construction of the subaltern
2. 2. who are subalterns? whose story do you believe?
3. 3.Academia in the west
4. 4.active subjects of oppression
  1. humor as resistance?
5. ppt.17-18
link: Globalization & Power
1. power
  1. examine in physical ways about power
2. globalization
  1. risks equally distributed all around the world. PC asks: really?

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