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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfLyMAHrQE. Making of the Modern World. THE EMPIRE WRITES BACK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5kCIiGoM. History as ideas vs History as labour. POST-MODERNISM (POST-STRUCTURALISM) POST-COLONIALISM DECOLONIZATION. POST-MODERNISM.
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Making of the Modern World THE EMPIRE WRITES BACK
History as ideas vs History as labour
POST-MODERNISM (POST-STRUCTURALISM) POST-COLONIALISM DECOLONIZATION
What is post-modernism? • What’s the deal with ‘post-modernism’ vs. ‘post-structuralism’? • Standing outside of the modern; holding it up as an object of enquiry • Not a chronological, but a conceptual term • A post-modern perspective looks at phenomena in the world in the wake of the modern • Example: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)
What is post-colonialism? • Not chronological, but a conceptual term • A post-colonial perspective looks at phenomena in the world in the wake of colonialism • Just as the term ‘post-modern’ denaturalizes the modern, post-colonialism denaturalizes the colonial. In so doing we are able to gain some critical purchase on the colonial • Example: Orientalism (1978)
What is decolonization? Decolonization / post-colonialism Decolonization is not a metaphor The politics of knowledge in the academy and direct action (vs chronology / analytic) Decolonize / diversify and the problem of ‘inclusion’ Examples: Decolonization is not a metaphor (1978), Priyamvada Gopal
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