SOC 475 Lecture 4: SOC 475- Week 4
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Colonial discourse analysis/post colonial studies: knowledge that is produced by the colonizer to point out ways in which these texts create or sustain the unequal power relations between. Postcoloniality: a subjectivity of oppostitionality to all imperializing/colonizing/subordinating discourses and practices, a descriptive rather than an evaluative term. Refers to a process of disengagement from the whole colonial syndrome: cannot understand the present if we don"t look at the present and looking at who we are and how we developed. The enlightenment that humans beings believe in reasoning and rationalizing instead of emotional. Marx argues that animals will be exist but humans can think before they act. Science of reason and above nature: subjectivity. Representation another society as depressed and needing our help. Not a lot of discussion about subjectivity, to achieve decolonization. Colonialism is an extension of capitalism: representation, power/knowledge relationship. Although orient/occident existed as ideas, the division became institutionalized in 18-19 century.
