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POST-MODERNISM AND THE PROVINCIALISING OF EUROPE

POST-MODERNISM AND THE PROVINCIALISING OF EUROPE. (a ka The Empire Bites Back…). Postmodernism and Eurocentrism. Postmodernism and power Postmodernism and capitalism Postmodernism and race Evolutionary theory and social Darwinism Subject or object? Agency?

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POST-MODERNISM AND THE PROVINCIALISING OF EUROPE

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  1. POST-MODERNISM AND THE PROVINCIALISING OF EUROPE (aka The Empire Bites Back…)

  2. Postmodernism and Eurocentrism • Postmodernism and power • Postmodernism and capitalism • Postmodernism and race • Evolutionary theory and social Darwinism • Subject or object? • Agency? • Marginality? (subaltern; periphery; outsider)

  3. The Voice • Who is heard in history? • Exploration, ‘discovery’ and ‘expansion’ • Conquest, colonisation and imperialism • Technology, science, knowledge • Trade and economic development • Charting the rise of Europe ……….. • “Who speaks for the Indian [or African, or Latin American, or etcetc] past”(Chakrabarty) Is World History just the story of European (or American) domination?

  4. ProvincialisingEurope • Putting Europe in its place? • Are other patterns of domination any better? • Chinese? • Ottoman? • Mughal? • How might we achieve a postmodern ‘cross cultural’ history? • Said (1979): the eye and the mind • Fanon (1967): physical and mental struggle

  5. Provincialising Europe– migration and diasporic histories • Trans-continental slave trading and the (re)possession of Africa (“coming home”) • Oceanic histories of trade (lascars, Somalis etc) • European colonizations of Africa (conquests, or collaborations?) • Decolonizations (lands, or minds?) • Coming home (or moving on?) • African postmodern migrants …….. (Windrush nation; Harki; returnadoes) How do we think about mobility, identity and belonging in a postcolonial world?

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