Orientalism & the Other

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2nd Year Media: Messages & Meanings (Orientalism & The Other) Mind Map on Orientalism & the Other, created by Jade Jannotti on 19/01/2014.
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Orientalism & the Other
  1. Said (1978)
    1. discourse through which Europeans manages the Orient during post-enlightenment period
      1. cultural hegemony gives orientalism strength & durability
        1. Us vs. Them
          1. power involves knowledge - radicalised knowledge (Foucault)
        2. regime of representation: representing in certain way
        3. Olson (2005)
          1. promotes political vision between foreign & common
            1. once vision is accepted, difficult to change
              1. Western generalisation about Orient/islamic cultures
                1. colonial discourse operated as instrument of power
                2. the Eastern came to know themselves as the Orients
                  1. ethnocentrism: application of one's culture to others
                  2. Sawant (2012)
                    1. Post-colonialism
                      1. modes of perceptions used as weapons of colonial power
                      2. Ambivalence
                        1. repulsion & attraction that characterises relationship between coloniser, colonised
                        2. Mimicry
                          1. colonised subject imitates coloniser by adopting habits, values (never simple reproduction)
                          2. Hybridity
                            1. political-cultural negotiation between coloniser, colonised (gap W&E)
                          3. Bhabha (1983)
                            1. stereotyping is ideological operation
                              1. repeated characteristics confirm generalisation
                              2. regime of truth: coloniser controls conolised by using knowledge to define colonised
                              3. Hall (1997)
                                1. significantly different from majority (THEM) are exposed to binary form of representation
                                  1. difference is essential to meaning
                                    1. meaning depends on different between opposites
                                    2. construct meaning through dialogue with "Other"
                                      1. meaning established through dialogue
                                      2. difference is basis of culture, symbolic order
                                        1. classification systems (groups)
                                        2. ambivalent role of Other
                                          1. positive: formation of language, cultural identities
                                            1. negative: creates hostility, aggression, threat
                                          2. Stereotypes
                                            1. divides acceptable from abnormal
                                              1. maintenance of symbolic order
                                                1. normal vs. deviant
                                                  1. sends THEM to symbolic exile
                                                2. occur when there are strong power inequalities
                                                3. Foucault: power/knowledge
                                                  1. Gramsci: hegemony
                                                    1. natural & inevitable
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