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Postcolonialism, Subaltern studies and Globalization:

Postcolonialism, Subaltern studies and Globalization:. Catarina Kinnvall. Overview. Postcolonialism: Imaginary identifications Multiculturalism and diaspora politics Subaltern Studies Summarizing the globalization debates Points for discussion. Imaginary identifications.

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Postcolonialism, Subaltern studies and Globalization:

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  1. Postcolonialism, Subaltern studies and Globalization: Catarina Kinnvall

  2. Overview • Postcolonialism: Imaginary identifications • Multiculturalism and diaspora politics • Subaltern Studies • Summarizing the globalization debates • Points for discussion

  3. Imaginary identifications • Constructing identities through significant others and collective narratives • The civilized European’s identity cannot exist without the uncivilized other – missionary racism

  4. Multiculturalism and diaspora politics • Relies upon a concept of homogenous entities • Politics of recognition • Translation, third room, hybridization • Neo-racism • Citizenship discourses

  5. Subaltern Studies • Started in England in the 1970s • Developed from Gramsci’s theories of culture and class politics • Ranajit Guha initiated the project • 1970s: focus on workers and peasant movement • 1980s: focus on resistance to state power • 1990s: influenced by poststructuralists

  6. Summarizing the globalization debates • Starting premises • Implications for social change • Impacts on the human condition • Policy responses c.f. Scholte

  7. Starting premises • competing definitions: internationalization or something different? • varying measurements of scale: globalism or scepticism? • contrasting chronologies: old or new? • diverse explanations: materialist or idealist, individualist or structuralist?

  8. Implications for social change • old capitalism, new capitalism or postcolonialism? • persistent statism or poststatist governance? • homogenization or heterogenization of identities? • old lines or new turns in knowledge? • extension of modernity or dawn of postmodernity?

  9. Impacts on the human condition • increased or decreased security? • more or less social democracy? • greater or reduced democracy?

  10. Policy responses • neoliberalist reliance on market forces? • rejectionist reliance on localism? • reformist reliance on public policies? • transformist reliance on social revolution?

  11. Points for discussion • How does a postcolonial perspective fit into the globalization debate? • How does postcolonialism differ from other critical approaches? • Postcolonialism – strength and weaknesses?

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