GEOG 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indochinese Communist Party, Body Politic, Exoticism
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Brief summary and personal take on materials read. Semiotics-social symbolic systems such as language of other kinds of symbols. Hence involves interpretations beyond the literal or factual accuracy. Different purposes, interest, perspectives, emotions of groups in both the act of (authorial) representation and the (audience"s, readers", critics") interpretations of it. (ex. The figure of the outsider in this year"s election chatter). Different groups; purposes, interests, perspectives, emotions accompany contention or conflict. Groups exist in power relations with one another. Representations are enforced by powerful groups as well as contested by less powerful ones. Representations contain traces of these contestations in relations of power. Our understanding of the world is mediated through representations. The colonial period was one of print capitalism, as well as stage, film, music market-newspapers, novels, plays, sheet music, theatre, even postcards. The representation of one culture for consumption by another.
